[Buddha-l] Unpopular Buddhism

[JKirkpatrick]

......a century before Stephen Batchelor announced that it was
impossible for 
Westerners to "believe in" Buddhism.

Where & when did he do that? speech, book, article?

JK 

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We have to remember that the West lost her Buddhist virginity
long 
before the 60's. Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia" was a best-seller
over a 
century before Stephen Batchelor announced that it was impossible
for 
Westerners to "believe in" Buddhism.

Curt