Philosophy of the Buddha: An Introduction

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Summary: A Good Place To Start
Review: Chris Gowans is my philosophy professor, and he makes his classes read this book as part of the syllabus. I am glad that he does. He breaks everything in Buddhism down into terms that are very easy to understand for the Western stream-observer. In one chapter, he manages to compare a theory of dualism and the process self to a tape recorder. And it makes total sense. I recommend this book if you are interested in Buddhism, because this guy knows about all there is to know, even though he's just a grown up hippie from San Francisco who's done a lot of reading and meditation. He even took the cover photo.