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The New Vehicle
The Buddha and the Recovery of Human Agency
Agency has become the word of the moment — who holds it, who's losing their grip on it, who's quietly outsourcing it. The New Vehicle: The Buddha and the Recovery of Human Agency goes back to the source of that question, twenty-five centuries deep, to a teaching most people recite without realizing what it actually asks of them. Not doctrine — a discipline, tested against real hardship, real relationships, and real institutions, for anyone who has ever suspected they were built for more say over their own life than they currently have.
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Every day, in temples and homes across the world, three lines are recited without a second thought: I go for refuge to the Buddha. I go for refuge to the Dhamma. I go for refuge to the Sangha.
This book asks a simple, unsettling question — what if that is not what those three lines were ever meant to say? Navayana follows Siddhartha from a sheltered childhood to the night under the bodhi tree, then further, into a modern recovery of his teaching built for a world that no longer accepts inherited hierarchy as fate.
The Four Noble Truths appear here not as doctrine to be believed, but as a diagnosis to be tested: alienation as the deepest wound modern life produces, craving as the mistake that keeps producing it, the Middle Way as a philosophy holding structure and change together instead of choosing between them, and the Eightfold Path as a discipline any reader can begin practicing today.
Written for anyone who has ever sensed that their life, their relationships, or their society could hold far more warmth and dignity than they currently do, and wondered whether that sense was naive. It was correct. This book is about what to do next
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Muralikrishna Sridhar
Dr. Muralikrishna Sridhar is an experienced AI leader with a strong background in managing large-scale AI initiatives, driving business transformation, and scaling AI-driven solutions across industries. With a PhD in AI and a postdoc from the University of Leeds and visiting researcher at Stanford Research Institute, he has successfully led AI strategy, execution, and customer engagement in automotive, construction, and manufacturing for more than 15 years. As a successful entrepreneur, Krishna has co-founded CONXAI Technologies GmbH - a company that provides cutting edge AI solutions for the construction sector. He also co-founded Sparsa AI GmbH, pioneering AI-Agentic innovations for the real economy. Through these ventures, he has been at the forefront of advancing AI solutions that revolutionize industrial operations, human -machine collaboration, and decision-making in real-world enterprise environments. At Accenture, he plays a key role in shaping the AI Agent strategy, defining roadmaps, and driving execution— ensuring AI agents are not just technological innovations but practical solutions that deliver measurable business impact. His expertise lies in bridging AI with enterprise operations, enabling organizations to integrate intelligent automation seamlessly into their workflows.
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