Author Affiliations:Department of Religious Studies Elizabethtown College One Alpha Drive Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USA Jeffery D. Long is Professor of religion and asian studies ata elizabethtown college in elizabethtoen, PA.
摘要
What is “the Dharma Paradigm”? And how might this paradigm be cultivated in such a way as to transform not only academic discourse, but the broader discourse of our global society? Transforming a discourse at a paradigmatic level is clearly not a simple matter of substituting Sanskritic terminology for the Eurocentric terminology that has tended to dominate global discourse—of, for example, calling religions “Dharma Traditions,” but continuing to think of them, basically, as “religions,” of calling our words “shabdas” and our scholarly texts “bhashyas.” The Dharma Paradigm is a re-thinking of all our shared categories in light of the wisdom of the Dharma Traditions, seen not simply as a kind of “folk wisdom,” of merely local or historical interest, but as constitutive of a universal and transformative knowledge, capable of responding in kind to the dominant categories of global discourse and presenting itself as a viable alternative. This paper will be dedicated to outlining what the Dharma Paradigm might look like were it to be enacted, as well as to delineating some preliminary steps that we, as scholars and public intellectuals, might take toward manifesting this paradigm in the world.
目次
background 1 what is the dharma paradigm? establishing the criteria 2 defining the cosmology and values of the dharma paradigms: four features 3 why is the dharma paradigm important? 6 the pragmatic question: promoting the dharma paradigm 6 curriculum development 7 course materials 8 working with dharma communities 8 endnotes 9 competing interests 10 references 10
