Stephen Batchelor is one of the most renowned and prominent thinkers in Buddhism and the author of highly successful books such as "Buddhism for Unbelievers" and "Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist." His new book "Beyond Buddhism" is the synthesis of his decades-long engagement with the question of how the teachings of the Buddha can be understood and lived in the modern world. What did the Buddha teach that goes beyond the concepts and ideas that were part of the worldview of his time and can still be helpful and important for us today? "Beyond Buddhism" looks at the time before Buddhism, the time of the Buddha, before his teachings became a religion, a -ism. Stephen Batchelor develops the vision of a secular Buddhism that offers us a non-dogmatic, practical, and ethical orientation for a flourishing life.