• ISBN13: 9780197788639
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: July 9, 2016
• Pages: 256
• Original Price: 1195.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: South Asia Edition 8th
• Item Weight: 560 grams

What kind of person should I strive to be? What ideals should I pursue in my life? What would it mean for all of us to wake up to the realities and possibilities for human life? These questions, or versions of them, are commonly thought of as the essential building blocks of the human condition, and often serve as running motifs throughout our lives. Dale S. Wright argues that the question at the heart of them all is one most commonly associated with Buddhism: what is enlightenment? Any serious practitioner of human life, Buddhist or not, confronts the challenge of how to reach a different, improved—or enlightened—state of being, and fundamental to that quest is grappling with what enlightenment actually means. Why then, Wright asks, is this question not only avoided, but discouraged among Buddhists?