Understanding the Buddha
"Neither a god, nor a guru, nor a savior" who is Buddha?

This essay sets out to understand this unclassifiable figure by taking stock of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine and unravelling its most famous shortcuts. By following Gotama's "Spiritual Awakening" step by step, the author offers a stimulating look at the man whose emancipatory quest "heals the whole world", far from any reductive pessimistic asceticism.

From the Enlightened One's contemporary Greeks to current scientific research, from Schopenhauer to Einstein, from Nietzsche to Lévi-Strauss, this portrait of Buddha is also an illuminating account of the "elective affinities between Buddhism and the West" and of the constant influence the sage has exerted on our thinking.

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Understanding the Buddha
"Neither a god, nor a guru, nor a savior" who is Buddha?

This essay sets out to understand this unclassifiable figure by taking stock of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine and unravelling its most famous shortcuts. By following Gotama's "Spiritual Awakening" step by step, the author offers a stimulating look at the man whose emancipatory quest "heals the whole world", far from any reductive pessimistic asceticism.

From the Enlightened One's contemporary Greeks to current scientific research, from Schopenhauer to Einstein, from Nietzsche to Lévi-Strauss, this portrait of Buddha is also an illuminating account of the "elective affinities between Buddhism and the West" and of the constant influence the sage has exerted on our thinking.

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Understanding the Buddha

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Understanding the Buddha

by SÃÂÂbastien Barbara

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"Neither a god, nor a guru, nor a savior" who is Buddha?

This essay sets out to understand this unclassifiable figure by taking stock of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine and unravelling its most famous shortcuts. By following Gotama's "Spiritual Awakening" step by step, the author offers a stimulating look at the man whose emancipatory quest "heals the whole world", far from any reductive pessimistic asceticism.

From the Enlightened One's contemporary Greeks to current scientific research, from Schopenhauer to Einstein, from Nietzsche to Lévi-Strauss, this portrait of Buddha is also an illuminating account of the "elective affinities between Buddhism and the West" and of the constant influence the sage has exerted on our thinking.

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ISBN-13: 9782315014057
Publisher: Max Milo Editions
Publication date: 10/10/2025
Edition description: Max Milo Editions ed.
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 4.72(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Specializing in Eastern philosophy and medical ethics, Sébastien Barbara has studied Sanskrit and Pâli. He contributed to Le Petit Larousse des Grands philosophes (2014) and La Philosophie pour ceux qui ont tout oublié (Larousse, 2015). He has also published articles on actu-philosophia.com. Also trained at the École des Beaux-arts de Reims, he tries to convey philosophical content through his work as a visual artist.
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