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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

The Making of Buddhist Modernism

by David L. McMahan

A study of the modern reinterpretation of Buddhism that emphasises meditation, rationality and compatibility with science. McMahan shows that Asian reformers and Western interpreters shaped it together.

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