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                       Nietzsche and the Buddha: Different Lives, Same Ideas

 

This book examines Nietzsche's claim that he could be "the Buddha of the West." A close reading of his texts shows substantial similarities with the Buddha's teachings, suggesting a potential basis and a promising future for a Western Buddhism that would be based on Nietzsche's philosophy. The book first provives a brief comparative biography of Nietzsche and the Buddha and then a review of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path and of what there is in Nietzsche's writings that is the equivalent to those teachings. This may serve as foundation for a "Buddhism" that is of the West, by the West, and for the West.