'Buddhism in a Nutshell' explains Buddhism to be a religion of wisdom, where knowledge and intelligence predominate. Devoted to the conditioning of the mind; within a milieu of social developments teetering between beneficial and harmful, Buddhism provides a way of life which aims to eventually lead to peace, happiness and freedom. As developments continue to arise and intensify or expire Buddhism persists; accepting and resisting change in areas of Gender, Technology, Globalisation and Power & Authority.

The extent to which acceptance and resistance is implemented bears considerable impact on the future directions of the Belief System resulting in either a greater acknowledgment or declining adherence in an attempt to maintain the core insights of Buddhism despite changes to the framework of society.

Siddhartha Gautama was born a Hindu, beginning life as an ordinary man in a typically Indian Society which held Patriarchal values and saw women as subservient to...