Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What the Buddha Taught


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The result was   Keep. Non-admin closure. D ARTH P ANDA duel 20:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

What the Buddha Taught

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A non-notable book. No reviews? No outside mention? No fame? No Wikipedia article should exist. ScienceApologist (talk) 10:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * keep Has been discussed in multiple reliable sources and has been reviewed by many independent sources. See for example ,, for starters. JoshuaZ (talk) 16:46, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep One of the most important texts in modern Buddhist scholarship is non-notable? Ecoleetage (talk) 01:58, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agreed. This is a classic Buddhist text which has been through many reprints and several editions. Johnfos (talk) 03:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Extremely popular as an English-language intro to Buddhism.  Shows up on every basic Buddhism reading list I've ever seen.  Hundreds of citations on Google scholar, even though it's currently thought of more as a popular introduction than as an academic reference.  It was first published in 1959, so don't be surprised if it doesn't show up in a lot of reviews on the web.  Google search for "What the Buddha Taught" and syllabus shows that it shows up on hundreds of university-level course syllabi in the US alone.  --Clay Collier (talk) 03:24, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:34, 15 November 2008 (UTC)