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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist Stephen Batchelor
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau

In his book Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, Stephen Batchelor recounts an interesting story about Ling Rinpoche… Kyabje Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche. Perhaps everything is pure semantics. (I highly recommend his “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”.) I do find value in the de-mythologized Buddhism of Batchelor, and I think he argues convincingly Siddhatta Gottama himself. Having seen "The Unwinking Gaze" made me much less enamored of him, when I had already been questioning his "place" now in the Buddhist hierarchy. This post is Part Three in a series concerning Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs and Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist (here is a link to a list of Batchelor's publications at his website). I have read Batchelor's “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist” and is none the wiser about faith or the absence of faith. He is also a long-time scientific skeptic. There are plenty of western Buddhist who embrace various superstitions, but I am certainly not alone as a secular Buddhist. Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. I picked up this book by Stephen Batchelor for the sole purpose of reading his account of how and why the Buddha was murdered. He chose to do a PhD in Philosophy rather than Buddhist Studies, pursuing a minor in South Asian Studies alongside. In Buddhism the emphasis is placed on practice.