Claim that Wilber does not consider himself Buddhist According to Ken Wilber One Taste 1998 Shambhala p 351 he says I am a longtime practicing Buddhist and many of the key ideas in my approach are Buddhist or Buddhist inspired First and foremost Nagarjuna and Madhyamika pure Emptiness and primordial Purity is the central philosophy of my approach as well Also Yogachara Hua Yen a great deal of Dzogchen and Mahamudra and yes the fundamentals of Abhidharma Again I m trying to take the best from each of these traditions and bring them together in what I hope is a fruitful fashion Has anybody verified the 2003 source given in the article where he purportedly does not call himself a Buddhist With two conflicting sources it might be better to remove that sentence However you could also argue that the more recent citation is valid since he is a dynamic and changing individual