Buddhism probably takes the prize today for World’s Most Lovable Religion.
But is this widespread appreciation of Buddhism matched by widespread understanding?
Meet our guests
Kanishka Raffel is the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney.
Dr Sarah Shaw is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University and an Honorary fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. She’s also the author of Buddhist Meditation: an Anthology of Texts and An Introduction to Buddhist Meditation.
Links
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This episode of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic’s new book 15 New Testament Words of Life by Nijay Gupta.
Read List
- Boston University’s World Religion Database
- Pew Research Centre on Buddhism in North America
- ‘Former Buddhist with Sri Lankan heritage, Kanishka Raffel is the new Anglican Archbishop of Sydney’, Radio National (AU), 26 May 2021
- A Doubter’s Guide to World Religions by John Dickson (2021)
- The Buddhism parable of the raft, in ‘When to let go of the dharma, too’, Tricycle – Buddhist Review, 19 September 2019
Watch List
- What’s the Difference? Jesus and the Eastern Faiths, John Dickson’s talk at Ada Bible Church, 2019.
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