cover image The New Buddhism

The New Buddhism

David Brazier. Palgrave MacMillan, $22 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-312-29518-9

Palgrave offers The New Buddhism, a manifesto for a socially engaged Buddhism. David Brazier argues in favor of ""liberation Buddhism,"" which seeks to free the world from oppression, over ""extinction Buddhism,"" which attempts to release the practitioner from the world. It's unfortunate that Brazier's book shares its title with James William Coleman's recent study of Buddhism in the West (May)