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The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty |
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Lele, Amod
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Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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| Volume | v.20 |
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| Date | 2013 |
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| Pages | 702 - 734 |
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| Publisher | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
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https://history.la.psu.edu/
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| Location | University Park, PA, US |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Amod Lele, Boston University. |
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| Abstract | The Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva tells his audience to give out alcohol, weapons and sex for reasons of Buddhist compassion, though he repeatedly warns of the dangers of all these three. The article shows how Śāntideva resolves this issue: these gifts, and gifts in general, attract their recipients to the virtuous giver, in a way that helps the recipients to become more virtuous in the long run. As a consequence, Śāntideva does recommend the alleviation of poverty, but assigns it a much smaller significance than is usually supposed. His views run counter to many engaged Buddhist discussions of political action, and lend support to the “modernist” interpretation of engaged Buddhist practice. |
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| ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
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| Hits | 125 |
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| Created date | 2014.07.14 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.13 |
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