none 10.5040/9781474283588 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 2984 100301055 3095831 20250609121333 10.5040 2025-06-26T10:27:32Z 2018-07-30T12:32:44Z 2 Glenn Wallis Ruins of the Buddhist Real What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.” Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.” Yet these preeminent human truths are universally against contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism. The author’s critique of Western Buddhism is threefold. It is immanent, in emerging out of Buddhist thought but taking it beyond what it itself publicly concedes; negative, in employing the “democratizing” deconstructive methods of Françs Laruelle’s non-philosophy; and re-descriptive, in applying Laruelle’s concept of philofiction. Through applying resources of Continental philosophy to Western Buddhism, A Critique of Western Buddhism suggests a possible practice for our time, an "anthropotechnic", or religion transposed from its seductive, but misguiding, idealist haven. 1 2019 9781474283588 9781474283557 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 10.5040/9781474283588 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781474283588 https://www.theologyandreligiononline.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781474283588 https://www.theologyandreligiononline.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781474283588 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781474283588 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781474283588