Reddit reviews Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book (Second Edition Revised and Expanded)

MCTB 2: 5/31/2018 according to Amazon, though still good to verify.

Even better, the book is now available for pre-order:

Amazon - MCTB2

>Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha - takes you to the 2nd edition online site....

No it doesn't, this link takes you to http://integrateddaniel.info/book/. The user then has to find another link there to the actual 2nd edition online site: https://www.mctb.org/. Why not link directly to the free online book website?

> I see this takes you to about a paperback of the 1st edition. As far as I know there is no print edition of the 2nd edition.

It says that there's a print version right there at the website you are linking to:

>MCTB2, which was published in July, 2018, available in print from from standard booksellers and from my kind publisher, Aeon books,

Here: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Core-Teachings-Buddha-Unusually/dp/1911597108/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1537530584&sr=8-1

Hope it's clearer now!

It appears that 2 out of 5 Buddhist doctors believe they are awakened:

1. Dr. Fred Meyer: "Fortunately, I knew enough about Buddhism to recognize that I had just experienced a pivotal Buddhist insight known as “egolessness of self,” the understanding that I did not possess an abiding entity commonly referred to as “I” or “me.” ... There are two wings to the bird of enlightenment. PRAJNA or the ability to see egolessness, and UPAYA or skillful activity. I had tasted prajna and seen absence of self, but I lacked the aspect of upaya" https://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Realm-Fred-H-Meyer/dp/1401020356
   
   
2. Dr. Daniel Ingram, "the Arahant" of Dharma Overground https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Core-Teachings-Buddha-Unusually/dp/1911597108
   
   
   
3. Buddhist eye surgeon Sanduk Ruit
   
   > In the past 30 years, Ruit has personally restored the sight of more than 100,000 people across Asia and Africa, and taught his rapid-fire technique to countless other eye surgeons in parts of the world as isolated as North Korea.
   
   https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/world/asia/nepal-eye-doctor/index.html
   
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fighting-preventable-blindness-in-burma-and-beyond/
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukuWCeINchw
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKrZOPI_P7Q
   
   
4. Physician monk Barry Kerzin: "We got married three days before I started medical school. We had a three-day honeymoon - it was simply divine, nothing is ever long enough - and then Judy was in law school. We didn't really see each other for three years because we were so busy. It’s three years for law school, four for medical school... I started private practice in California and a few months later Judy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Doctors say you don't treat your own family. I think that's wise; I wasn't being her doctor, I was being her nurse, giving injections and medication so we could spend a lot more time at home. We got incredibly close in that time; sometimes it felt like we were literally one person. We knew we didn't have a lot of time … the cancer worked its way up the linings of the abdomen into the chest, the heart. She couldn't breathe, she couldn't talk, but she was lucid and wrote notes to people. And then she went into a coma and passed away and my life fell apart. We had been 11 years married, 14 year together... In 1984, six months after Judy died, I went to India, Sri Lanka and Nepal for eight months. I was trying to come to terms with everything. I came back and, for about a year, tried to continue my practice, but it was hard to be in the same places and social situations so I got a job at the University of Washington, as a professor in family medicine. I was practising Buddhism and wanted to go deeper. In 1989, I took a six-month leave of absence and I went to India with one of my teachers, a yogi. I worked at the Tibetan Medical Institute, in Dharamsala, where they train their doctors, have a pharmacy and make the herbal medicines, and a clinic where they see patients." http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1943991/berkeley-hippy-dalai-lamas-personal-physician-barry-kerzins
   
   
5. Dr. Mitchell Levy, personal physician to Trungpa Rinpoche and the 16th Karmapa http://www.khandro.net/16Karmapa_80.htm
   
   
6. Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, not Buddhist but perhaps a Bodhisattva
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibKo2itlU-Q&t=1m28s
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVm_gmQw7HI