Rediscovering the Buddha
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Hans Penner takes a look at the classic stories of the life of the Buddha. He takes issue with Max Weber's assertion that 'Buddhism is an other-worldly ascetic religion', a point of view that remains dominant in the received tradition …
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Hans Penner takes a look at the classic stories of the life of the Buddha. He takes issue with Max Weber's assertion that 'Buddhism is an other-worldly ascetic religion', a point of view that remains dominant in the received tradition and in most contemporary studies of Buddhism.
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