Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism

This book has some great parts, but it's mostly a really boringly worded experiment to talk about buddhism with the language of existentialism. Both of those I prefer to be talked about with just everyday language instead of obscure terminology.
Probably reading the authors newer books is a better idea.
I've only read Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist and it's one of the best books I ever read, and despite being boring, this book still has some really great insights in it, so I think this is probably the worst Batchelor gets so in the end this just made me more sure I want to read everything he wrote.

Here again Batchelor - bring secular clarity in a pragmatic 'culturally light' integration of the teaching of Buddha. Batchelor is always a worthy read.

Being-with-others is an essential structure, restricted to the dimension of possibility; but inthe process of actualization it assumes an existential structure through which we actively participate in the world with others.

Interesting. A fair un derstanding of ontology, and concepts of "being," particularly as relates to hiedegger and Plato could be helpful in enjoying this heavily academic philosphical essay. I's relattively concise, and punctuated with some provocative conceptual links between existentialism and Buddhism.