The Doctrine of the Buddha: The Religion of Reason

I'm giving it 5 stars simply because it's difficult to get a book with different interpretation of the doctrine of "anatta/anatman". This is the only book I can find from the few scholars with a different view on this topic.Although through my personal research, I have already accepted and agreed with this point of view, I do find the book difficult to read. Maybe it's because of the time this book was written i.e. it's the writing style when it was published. Also:- He compared Buddhist teaching to Schopenhauer a lot.- This book is not for beginners. It assumes that you're familiar with Buddhist concept beforehand.- It has different translation than the common translation; e.g "The Noble Truths" as "The Most Excellent Truths" etc.- He translated from Buddhist scriptures using the language of The King James Bible like "thou, ye, etc."- There's also lots of Latin phrases which he compares to Buddhist terminology without explaining the term first. He assumes that the reader is familiar with such phrases.- There are few typo mistakes like ". and , " etc.If you want to read about the arguments on "anatta/anatman"....go to page 102 to 160 and the Appendix at the end of the book.I'm looking forward to re-reading this book in the future again and hope I will understand it better!

If you want to know, what Buddha really said please read it, you will be protected by commentaries by the author, this is parhaps the greatest book written of buddha's doctrine. There are thousands of books on buddha but parhaps no book can come even closer to the level of this book.This is a midum size book, the book is firm and its pages are brawny.