Batchelor, Stephen

Bhikkhu Anālayo, a monk and major scholar of early Buddhism, has recently come out with a book on superiority conceits in several Buddhist traditions. We'll consider the four cases he discusses and then look at four further considerations…

How does Buddhist practice work? We will consider the Buddhist focus on dukkha or suffering/unsatisfactoriness, and how our spending time with it can paradoxically help us bring it to an end.

Secular Buddhism means different things to different people. In this video I'll try to outline some of my own ideas about a secular path, and a little about how my views may differ from some others.

Rebirth has been a Buddhist view for centuries. We'll discuss its origins in ancient Indian thought as well as its commonalities with ideas in the West. We'll also discuss its relation to ideas of time, and how those changed in the West.…

What is secular Buddhism and how does it differ from traditional Buddhism? This video will try to answer that question. It's my first video, so the production values are rougher than later videos!