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The Great Awakening - A Buddhist Social Theory (Paperback)
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The Great Awakening - A Buddhist Social Theory (Paperback)
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The most essential insight that Buddhism offers is that all our
individual suffering arises from three and only three sources,
known in Buddhism as the three poisons: greed, ill-will, and
delusion. In "The Great Awakening," scholar and Zen teacher David
Loy examines how these three poisons, embodied in society's
institutions, lie at the root of all social maladies as well. The
teachings of Buddhism present a way that the individual can
counteract these to alleviate personal suffering, and in the "The
Great Awakening" Loy boldly examines how these teachings can be
applied to institutions and even whole cultures for the alleviation
of suffering on a collective level.
This book will help both Buddhists and non-Buddhists to realize the
social importance of Buddhist teachings, while providing a
theoretical framework for socially engaged members of society to
apply their spiritual principles to collective social issues. "The
Great Awakening" shows how Buddhism can help our postmodern world
develop liberative possibilities otherwise obscured by the
anti-religious bias of so much contemporary social theory.
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