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Anonymous Sat Dec 28 15:41:41 2019 No.14433087 [Reply] [Original]

Is there more books that introduce Buddhism to a western audience. Preferably non-fiction

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 16:04:03 2019 No.14433213 >>14433087 You could start from Alan Watts or Shangharakshita. There's plenty, these are just who I read first, and they made me want to read more and start practicing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 16:37:35 2019 No.14433406 this is not a buddhist book read boddhi's "in the buddha's words", knowing it has theravada bias. read some more sutras, then "Paul Williams - Mahayana Buddhism - The Doctrinal Foundations" for a mostly historical overview of mahayana

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 16:39:04 2019 No.14433411 >>14433087 Start with Doctrine of awakening by Evola.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 16:55:56 2019 No.14433499 How good is this list? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/wiki/booklist&ved=2ahUKEwiZufXsndnmAhWQdd8KHa95DBwQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1Toh1tW7gpz7-FCWyjK4JS

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 18:14:25 2019 No.14433846 File: 3.67 MB, 2712x5224, buddhism.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14433499 it's good obviously too big for a person to read all that though it contains both books i mentioned here >>14433406 also see pic rel

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Sat Dec 28 18:20:01 2019 No.14433882 File: 64 KB, 708x800, 1524304766864.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14433846 >more modern hippy shit than traditional buddhist texts

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 18:22:27 2019 No.14433896 >>14433846 Big help thank you

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 18:26:30 2019 No.14433914 >>14433846 Aren't the long discourses more beginner friendly?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 19:13:14 2019 No.14434099 >>14433087 The Way of Zen by Alan Watts.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 19:17:43 2019 No.14434117 >>14434099 >Zen White people, get out.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 22:36:50 2019 No.14434839 i want to read books that cuts through the mystics and give me the secular understanding of the philosophy of the mind

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 02:42:33 2019 No.14435664 >>14434839 That would be zen. As a flavor of buddhism influenced by taoism, look there as well