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Buddhist Behavioral Codes and the Modern World: An International Symposium
Author Wawrytko, Sandra Ann (編) ; Fu, Charles Wei-hsun (編)
Date1994
Pages333
PublisherGreenwood Press
LocationWestport, CT, US [韋斯特菲爾德, 康乃狄克州, 美國]
SeriesContributions to the Study of Religion
Series No.38
Content type論文集=Collected Papers
Language英文=English
Note1. Proceedings from the Chung-Hwa International Conference on Buddhism convened in Taipei, Taiwan, July 18-21, 1992.

2. Publisher Series: Contributions to the Study of Religion, No. 38, ISSN 0196-7053

2. An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT, USA. Founded in 1967, closed in 2008 with imprints and titles transferred to ABC-CLIO.
KeywordSocial Change; Buddhist Ethics; Tradition; History; Praxis; Congresses; Discipline in Buddhism; Buddhist Precepts; Monasticism; Buddhist Orders; Buddhist Rules; Fu, Charles Wei-hsun; Wawrytko, Sandra Ann; Shih, Sheng-yen; Cleary, J. C.; Holt, John Clifford; Sato, Tatsugen; Shinohara, Koichi; Willemen, Charles; Yamagiwa, Nobuyuki; Tso, Sze-bong; Tsomo, Karma Lekshe; Buswell, Robert E., Jr.; Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn; Boonyoros, Roongraung; Brahmawong, Chaiyong; Mettanando, Bhikkhu; Crook, John H.; Inada, Kenneth K.
AbstractWithin the scope of the English-language literature on Buddhism, the codes of behavior mandated by Buddhist doctrine represent an infrequently discussed topic. The selections here consist of essays on Buddhism by 17 scholars and practitioners, who address the ongoing evolution of Buddhist doctrine as reflected in its cultural, temporal, political, and geographical accommodations from the earliest days, to the present, and into the future. Past precedent is used as a means of clarifying the precise role of the precepts in the modern world as Buddhists face the 21st century and continue to encounter diverse cultural contexts. Scholars, practitioners, and students alike will find instructive the theoretical as well as practical issues that are covered, including textual criticism, hermeneutics, cross-cultural studies, theories of action, psychology, death and dying, feminism, business management, challenges to the Western scientific paradigm, and religion in popular culture. Three main questions are explored from diverse perspectives: What was and is the significance of the precepts; how can they best be applied, and creatively adapted, to changing social conditions to best fulfill the original intentions of the Buddha; and how are we to determine present upayic demands to avoid violating those intentions? As many argue in these pages, there is much more at stake in the issue of sila/vinaya than simple guidelines for an obsolete lifestyle to be discarded at will. Rather, the case can be made that they represent an intrinsic part of Buddhist cultivation, even a sine qua non of successful, consummate practice.
Table of contentsIntroduction / Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Sandra Ann Wawrytko,pp.xi-xvi
Prologue:On the Temporal and Spatial Adaptability of the Bodhisattva Precepts, with Reference to the Three Cumulative Pure Precepts / Dharma Teacher Sheng-yen,Translated by J. C. Cleary,pp.3-50

I. The Historical Context
1. The Beginnings of Buddhist Discipline:Notes on an Early Buddhist Theory of Action / John Clifford Holt,pp.53-66
2. Dao-xuan and His Religious Precepts / Tatsugen Sato,pp.67-73
3. Buddhist Precepts in Medieval Chinese Biographies of Monks / Koichi Shinohara, pp.75-94
4. Vinaya in Two Early Collections of Parables / Charles Willemen,pp.95-99
5. The Importance of Vinaya in the Study of Indian Buddhism,with Special Reference to Chinese Sources / Nobuyuki Yamagiwa, pp.101-109
6. The Decline of Buddhist Vinaya in China from a Historical and Cultural Perspective / Tso Sze-bong,pp.111-122
7. Buddhist Ethics in Japan and Tibet:A Comparative Study of the Adoption of Bodhisattva and Pratimoksa Precepts / Karma Lekshe Tsomo,pp.123-138

II. Rethinking Buddhist Practice in the Modern World
8. Buddhist Reform Movements in Korea During the Japanese Colonial Period:Precepts and the Challenge of Modernity / Robert E. Buswell,Jr.,pp.141-160
9. The Problem of Ordination:Women in Buddhism / Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, pp.161-169
10. Householders and the Five Precepts / Roongraung Boonyoros, pp.171-178
11. The Application of Buddhist Principles to Administrative Arts / Chaiyong Brahmawong,pp.179-186
12. Death -- The Ultimate Challenge:A Buddhist Perspective in the Medical Care of Dying Patients / Venerable Mettanando Bhikkhu,pp.187-209

III. Revisionings of Buddhist Theory
13. Perceptual Truth and the Western Psychology of Human Nature / John H. Crook,pp.213-229
14. Buddhist Precepts and the Scientific challenge / Kenneth K. Inada, pp.231-244
15. Mixed Precepts, the Bodhisattva Precept,and the Preceptless Precept; A Critical Comparison of the Chinese and Japanese Buddhist Views of Sila/Vinaya / Charles Wei-hsun Fu, pp.245-276
16. Sexism in the Early Sangha:Its Social Basis and Philosophical Dis-solution / Sandra A. Wawrytko,pp.277-296

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