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Batchelor was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1953. When he was three, his family relocated briefly to Toronto, Canada, where his parents separated. He returned with his mother Phyllis (b. 1913) to England, where he was raised in a humanist environment with his younger brother David in Watford, a suburb of London. After completing his secondary education at Watford Grammar School, in February 1972, at the age of eighteen, he embarked on an overland journey which eventually led him to India. He settled in Dharamsala, the capital-in-exile of the Dalai Lama, and studied with Geshé Ngawang Dhargyey at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. He was ordained as a novice monk in the Gelug tradition in 1974. A few months after ordination, he sat a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat with the Indian teacher S.N. Goenka, which proved a lasting influence on his practice, and aroused his curiosity about other traditions of Buddhism.

He left India in 1975 in order to study Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and doctrine under the guidance of Geshé Rabten, first at the Tibet Institute Rikon then in Le Mont-Pèlerin (both in Switzerland), where he helped Geshé Rabten to establish the Tharpa Choeling (now Rabten Choeling). The next year he received full ordination as a monk. In 1979 he moved to Germany as a translator for Geshé Thubten Ngawang at the Tibetisches Institut, Hamburg.

In April 1981 Batchelor travelled to Songgwangsa Monastery in South Korea to train in Zen Buddhism under the guidance of Kusan Sunim. At the monastery, he met Martine Fages, a Frenchwoman who had ordained as a nun in 1975. He remained in Korea until the autumn of 1984, when he left for a pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in Japan, China and Tibet.

Batchelor and Martine Fages disrobed in February 1985 and married in Hong Kong, then returned to England and joined the Sharpham North Community near Totnes, Devon. Over the course of the fifteen years Batchelor lived at Sharpham, he became coordinator of the Sharpham Trust (1992) and co-founder of the Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Enquiry (1996). Throughout this period he worked as a Buddhist chaplain at Channings Wood Prison. From 1990 he has been a Guiding Teacher at Gaia House meditation centre in Devon and since 1992 a contributing editor of The Buddhist Review. As a lay Buddhist scholar and teacher, he has increasingly turned his attention to the earliest teachings of Buddhism as recorded in the Pali canon. In August 2000, he and Martine moved to Aquitaine, France, where they live in a village near Bordeaux. He is also a member of the Center for Pragmatic Buddhism's Advisory Board.

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Total Books: 43
After Buddhism Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
Alone With Others An Existential Approach to Buddhism
The Ancient Greeks For Dummies
The Ancient Greeks for Dummies [For Dummies History, Biography & Politics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780470987872
ISBN-10: 0470987871
Genres: History, Literature & Fiction
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The Art of Solitude
The Art of Solitude (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780300250930
ISBN-10: 0300250932
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Religion & Spirituality
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THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST
The Awakening of the West (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781855383432
ISBN-10: 1855383438
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The Awakening of the West The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture
Buddhism in America
Buddhism Without Beliefs
Buddhism Without Beliefs (Paperback)Paperback, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780747537694
ISBN-10: 0747537690
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Buddhism Without Beliefs A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
Buddhism Without Beliefs a Contemporary Guide to Awakening (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781573220583
ISBN-10: 1573220582
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 5

Buddhism Without Beliefs  A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
Buddhism Without Beliefs a Contemporary Guide to Awakening (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781573226561
ISBN-10: 1573226564
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 15

Buddhismus fr Unglubige
Buddhismus Fr Unglubige (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783596140268
ISBN-10: 3596140269
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Budismo sin creencias/ Buddhism Without Beliefs
Budismo Sin Creencias/ Buddhism Without Beliefs [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788484451532
ISBN-10: 8484451534
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780385527064
ISBN-10: 0385527063
Genres: History, Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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Confisses de Um Ateu Budista
Confisses De Um Ateu Budista [Em Portuguese do Brasil] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788531518065
ISBN-10: 8531518067
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Faith to Doubt  Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty
Faith to Doubt Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780938077220
ISBN-10: 0938077228
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
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The Faith to Doubt Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty
Guide to Bodhisattva's Way of Life
Guide to Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788185102597
ISBN-10: 8185102597
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
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Le Bouddhisme libr des croyances
Le Bouddhisme Libr Des Croyances [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782227472884
ISBN-10: 222747288X
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Living with the Devil
Living with the Devil (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781594480874
ISBN-10: 1594480877
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Living With the Devil A Meditation on Good and Evil
Living with the Devil a Meditation on Good and Evil (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781573222761
ISBN-10: 1573222763
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 5

Medieval History For Dummies
Medieval History for Dummies (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780470747834
ISBN-10: 0470747838
Genre: History
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Tibet Guide [A wisdom Tibet book] (Paperback)