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Being Benevolence - The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism (Hardcover)
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Being Benevolence - The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in Contemporary Buddhism
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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 nationstate? 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 th 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.
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