The modern reading that keeps the Buddha's ethics and meditation while setting aside rebirth, karma as cosmic law, and the supernatural frame of the early texts.
Secular Buddhism is a movement of the modern West and of Asia's modernizers, which presents the dharma as a practical philosophy of attention and compassion. The traditional vehicles record it as a reading that leaves their doctrine behind; its own teachers present it as a return to the Buddha's core.
Secular Buddhism across the site
Sources
Primary
- Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism without Beliefs (1997).
Secondary
- David L. McMahan, The Making of Buddhist Modernism (2008).