Author: Department STIAB JinarakkhitaJl. Raya Suban No. 80, Kel. Pidada, Kec. Panjang, Bandar Lampung 35241, Indonesia Author for correspondence: email: dedy713@gmail.com
關鍵詞
Dalai Lama; Buddhist Modernism; Religious Pluralism; Middle Way
摘要
The HH 14th Dalai Lama (HH) is one of the most influential Buddhist figures nowadays. My research will focus on the HH’s role in promoting religious pluralism in the contemporary period. Particularly, I will discuss how HH skillfully highlights some Buddhist doctrines to adapt contemporary audiences from different religious backgrounds. He strongly advocates that Buddhism is a pluralistic religion par excellence that is suited to the modern pluralistic society. I am aware that some authors have the same idea of mine that HH is promoting religious pluralism in modern society. Further elaborating on the authors’s idea that HH actively reimagines and portrays Buddhism as modern, I will argue that his presentation of Buddhism as a pluralistic religion can be analyzed as his attempt or “skillful means” to bridge and find the “middle way” between traditionalism and secularism for his contemporary audiences.
目次
Introduction 12 Methodology 12 Pluralism 13 Harmonizing Buddhism and Pluralism in the Modern World: HH’s Reinvention of Buddhist Ethic, Doctrine, Practice, and Soteriology 13 HH’s Middle Way – Middle between Traditionalism and Secularism 15 Justifying the Middle Way and Pluralism within Buddhism: Answering the Objections of Conflicting Roles and the Authenticity of HH’s Reinvention of Buddhism Containing Pluralistic Ideas 19 Conclusion 21 References 22
