ABSTRACT
Asked 'What is Buddhism?', no two Buddhists would entirely agree, but some concensus of opinion must have emerged after 50 years of Western Buddhism with the whole field of Buddhism open to its students. To see what this concensus might be I invited the views of some 150 Western Buddhists living in or near London, to formulate, so far as time permitted, such a list, and the following are notes of what seemed to be generally agreed as a suitable presentation of the subject to a Western audience.
