(Note: These reflections emerged out of a group reading of Stephen Batchelor’s After Buddhism, among other texts, as part of the year-long Nalanda program’s continuation module at the end of May 2018). Stephen Batchelor begins After Buddhism by expressing his discomfort with the Geluk [Tibetan Buddhist] teaching that a positive description of emptiness is not to be given. He then provides an account of what he has learned from the teaching and his practice, in effect describing emptiness in … [Read more...]