From the @yalepress Fall 2019 catalogue -- a short interview about my forthcoming book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/sites/default/files/fall_2019_catalogue_web_final.pdf …pic.twitter.com/NASJCU6P6e
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Buddhism doesn't lack a supreme being -- the Buddha, especially in Mahayana Buddhism, is a supreme being (though not a creator deity).
Indeed. But that's a common claim made about it, which I'd imagine underwrites some of these modernist claims.
Yes, that claim is an example of what I call "Buddhist exceptionalism" -- also that Buddhism relies on reason, not scripture; or that Buddhism emphasizes causality (in the scientific sense of the term)
It's a general modern(ist) move to sanitize religions to make them compatible with science. There are Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, etc versions of this.
So claims that Buddhism is special in being more compatible with science are misguided.
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