The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts
"Evola ... had a clarity of mind and a gift for explaining tremendously difficult concepts in nonacademic language. His account of the niddana-chain (the twelve stages of conditioned genesis) is a masterpiece. It equips the reader for a whole new understanding, not only of Buddhism, but of the human state in general." (Gnosis Magazine)"In essence, the Buddhist 'Doctrine of Awakening' is, for Evola, the cultivation of a pure, naked, transcendent consciousness, and his book shines in describing the stages leading to this consciousness." (Richard Smoley, Parabola)"Evola engages in a well-graduated exposition of Buddhist techniques as seen in this ascetic light, with discussion of the mental/spiritual states encountered. Evola's is the most original book I've ever read on Buddhism." (Dan Byrnes, New Dawn, March/April 2002)" . . . a provocative study of the teachings of the Buddha by one of Europe's most stimulating thinkers." (Buddha Torrents, Oct 2008)