In the Tracks of Buddhism

by Frithjof Schuon

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0044404581
• ISBN13: 9780044404583
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

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An antidote against "neo"-buddhism

Edited by Marco Pallis, a well known scholar on Buddhism, these articles by Frithjof Schuon provide us with an original perspective on a tradition too often mixed in the West with New Age ideas and neo-spiritualism. By contrast with such modernist view, Schuon insists on the metaphysical and intrinsic orthodoxy of Buddhism, explaining its difference of perspective with Advaita Vedanta and other traditional doctrines. Far from being simply a "philosophy" or a kind of subtle Atheism, Buddhism, in Schuon's view, is an initiatory method (rather than a metaphysical doctrine), based on a non-anthropomorphic perspective on the Absolute, considered less as a metaphysical Principle than as a State (Nirvana). A true antidote against contemporary neo-buddhism.