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Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism
Author King, Sallie B.
Date2006.06
Pages294
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
LocationHonolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
Keyword入世佛教=人間佛教=Engaged Buddhism=Humanistic Buddhism; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 慈悲心=Compassion=Metta=Loving Kindness=Maitri; 靜坐=Meditation; 禪修=Meditation
AbstractNew paperback edition. Engaged Buddhist leaders make some of the most important contributions in the Buddhist world to thinking about issues in political theory, human rights, nonviolence, and social justice. Being Benevolence provides for the first time a rich overview of the main ideas and arguments of prominent Engaged Buddhist thinkers and activists on a variety of questions: What kind of political system should modern Asian states have? What are the pros and cons of Western liberalism? Can Buddhism support the idea of human rights? Can there ever be a nonviolent nation-state?

The book identifies the roots of Engaged Buddhist social ethics in such traditional Buddhist concepts and practices as interdependence, compassion, and meditation, and shows how these are applied to particular social and political issues. It illuminates the movement's metaphysical views on the individual and society and goes on to examine how Engaged Buddhists respond to fundamental questions in political theory concerning the proper balance between the individual and society. The second half of the volume focuses on applied social-political issues: human rights, nonviolence, and social justice.
ISBN0824829352 (pbk); 9780824829353 (pbk)
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Created date2007.02.07
Modified date2016.12.22



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