Wright makes clear that he's talking about Buddhism as a spiritual practice, not a religious dogma. Few true believer, however, would make the claim that their religion is "scientifically true" religion, after all, is a matter of faith, and faith and science are somewhat different things.īut that's the claim Robert Wright is making in his thought-provoking, well-reasoned, and thoroughly-researched book Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Simon and Schuster, 2017). This is particularly true of true religious believers: for Christians, Christianity is the true religion, for Jews, Judaism is the true religion, for for Muslims, Islam is the true religion. All "true believers" believe their beliefs are true.
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