Treasures of Buddhism

By Frithjof Schuon

In his classic work on the subject, perennialist author Frithjof Schuon explores the vast and varied landscape that is Buddhism. Every reader interested in Buddhism from whatever angle will here find... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941532151
• ISBN13: 9780941532150
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: World Wisdom Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

An antidote against "neo"-buddhism

Edited by Marco Pallis, a well known scholar on Buddhism, these articles by Frithjof Schuon provide us with an original perspective on a tradition too often mixed in the West with New Age ideas and neo-spiritualism. By contrast with such modernist view, Schuon insists on the metaphysical and intrinsic orthodoxy of Buddhism, explaining its difference of perspective with Advaita Vedanta and other traditional doctrines. Far from being simply a "philosophy" or a kind of subtle Atheism, Buddhism, in Schuon's view, is an initiatory method (rather than a metaphysical doctrine), based on a non-anthropomorphic perspective on the Absolute, considered less as a metaphysical Principle than as a State (Nirvana). A true antidote against contemporary neo-buddhism.