Brand New Ancient Buddhism

The latter half of this episode is —increasingly— about Buddhism (reaching a crescendo in which the topic is Buddhist philosophy and nothing but). However, admittedly, for the first twenty minutes or more, you may be wondering if this is an episode entirely about Plato. On à-bas-le-ciel: LINK: ⁠https://youtube.com/live/t6vBgeJRiyI⁠ On Eisel Mazard, Monolingual Polyglot: LINK: ⁠https://www.youtube....

Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community , although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together...

Explained in ten minutes or less. ;-) Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numberin...

This is Episode 06 of Brand New Ancient Buddhism , a podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective. You may also want to take a glance at my other podcast , Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under...

Cf. Problems of “Canon” and “Reason” in Theravāda Studies , Eisel Mazard, 2014, in Arc , McGill University's journal of religious studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/arc.v42i.391 McGill University https://arcjournal.library.mcgill.ca › article › view Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under...

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eise...

Apotheosis and its opposite, euhemerism: the making of real historical events into fables, transforming the memory of what were once real people into gods, and the reverse cultural process whereby fables are rewritten as if they had been real historical events, with the gods and allegorical figures being increasing remembered as if they had been real historical figures in retrospect. These concept...

This is the perspective of a former scholar of the most ancient period of Buddhism (the history, politics, language and literature, including the original philosophy of the Buddha as recorded in Pali) who ultimately made the decision (after many years of hard labor in the field) to simply give up and move on. Believe it or not, the articles I wrote during my years as a scholar of Buddhism are stil...

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eise...