Winton Higgins traces the origins of secular Buddhism in the in the Pali canon as developed by Harold Musson and Stephen Batchelor.
Buddhist and western philosophical perspectives on emptiness
When I was studying at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London many years ago, my supervisor once accused me, during discussion of a text by the early Buddhist writer Nagarjuna, of being ‘obsessed with emptiness’.
Core elements of a secular and socially-engaged Buddhism
Mike Slott explores how a radical social theory and core Buddhist insights are both essential to understanding the causes of suffering and creating a society in which all human beings can flourish.
Heidegger for dharma wallahs: the granddaddy of existentialism
In this 2015 talk Winton Higgins discusses the relevance of the German philosopher Heidegger for developing a secular dharma.