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Is S. Dhammika's book The Broken Buddha, a misleading angry reaction?

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Recently I happened to read the following review and comments about the book "The Broken Buddha." The Broken Buddha and its Implications The Broken Buddha: The revenge of the unfaithful monk > By Carl Stimson: > > The book is the work of Shravasti Dhammika, an > Australia-born man who ordained as a Theravada monk in 1976. It was > published in 2008, though as he states in the preface, most of it was > written several years earlier and he only decided to publish after an > “unauthorized draft” appeared online. I am unsure how much the > official version differs from this draft, but the text retains a rough > feel. At less than 80 pages, it is somewhere between long essay and > short book, and is at turns angry, funny, cutting, astounding, and, > unfortunately, sometimes poorly researched. For some, Bhante > Dhammika’s casual relationship with facts and tendency toward > generalization may limit their ability to take the thrust of his > arguments seriously. Both of them says most of the S. Dhammika's views are angry and and misleading. Is S. Dhammikas work poorly researched and baseless?
Asked by Blake (390 rep)
Nov 11, 2022, 08:08 PM
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