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Classical Tibetan Buddhist scriptures forbid the selling of
Buddhist objects, and yet there is today a thriving market for
Buddhist statues, paintings, and texts. In Buddha in the
Marketplace, Alex John Catanese investigates this practice, which
continues to be viewed as a form of "wrong livelihood" by modern
Tibetan Buddhist scholars and early Buddhist texts such as the
Vinaya. Drawing on textual and historical sources, as well as
ethnographic research conducted in the region of Amdo, Tibet,
Catanese follows the trajectory of Buddhist objects from their
status as noncommodities prior to the Cultural Revolution to their
emergence as commodities on the open market in the modern period.
The book examines why Tibetans have more recently begun to sell
such objects for their personal livelihoods when their religious
tradition condemns such business activities in the strongest
possible terms. Addressing the various societal and religious
ramifications of these commercial practices, Catanese illustrates
how such activity is leading to significant cultural and economic
changes, transforming the "moral economy" associated with Buddhist
objects, and contributing to a reinterpretation of Tibetan Buddhist
identity.
Classical Tibetan Buddhist scriptures forbid the selling of
Buddhist objects, and yet there is today a thriving market for
Buddhist statues, paintings, and texts. In Buddha in the
Marketplace, Alex John Catanese investigates this practice, which
continues to be viewed as a form of "wrong livelihood" by modern
Tibetan Buddhist scholars and early Buddhist texts such as the
Vinaya. Drawing on textual and historical sources, as well as
ethnographic research conducted in the region of Amdo, Tibet,
Catanese follows the trajectory of Buddhist objects from their
status as noncommodities prior to the Cultural Revolution to their
emergence as commodities on the open market in the modern period.
The book examines why Tibetans have more recently begun to sell
such objects for their personal livelihoods when their religious
tradition condemns such business activities in the strongest
possible terms. Addressing the various societal and religious
ramifications of these commercial practices, Catanese illustrates
how such activity is leading to significant cultural and economic
changes, transforming the "moral economy" associated with Buddhist
objects, and contributing to a reinterpretation of Tibetan Buddhist
identity.
The foundations of research ethics are riven with fault lines
emanating from a fear that if research is too closely connected to
weighty social purposes an imperative to advance the common good
through research will justify abrogating the rights and welfare of
study participants. The result is an impoverished conception of the
nature of research, an incomplete focus on actors who bear
important moral responsibilities, and a system of ethics and
oversight highly attuned to the dangers of research but largely
silent about threats of ineffective, inefficient, and inequitable
medical practices and health systems. In For the Common Good:
Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics, Alex John London
defends a conception of the common good that grounds a moral
imperative with two requirements. The first is to promote research
that generates the information necessary to enable key social
institutions to effectively, efficiently, and equitably safeguard
the basic interests of individuals. The second is to ensure that
research is organized as a voluntary scheme of social cooperation
that respects its various contributors' moral claims to be treated
as free and equal. Connecting research to the goals of a just
social order grounds a framework for assessing and managing
research risk that reconciles these requirements and justifies key
oversight practices in non-paternalistic terms. Reconceiving
research ethics as resolving coordination problems and providing
credible assurance that these requirements are being met expands
the issues and actors that fall within the purview of the field and
provides the foundation for a more unified and coherent approach to
domestic and international research. This is an open access title
available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free
to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF
download from OUP and selected open access locations.
A respected hostage negotiation expert loses his mind when a
bizarre kidnapping case results in a child's unexplained death. His
wild talk of murderous monsters born from the victim's own
imagination is impossible to believe, and the catastrophe sees him
driven out of business in a cycle of alcoholism, denial and
despair. Several years later, when a new case arises bearing all
the hallmarks of the same killers, Harlan Falk emerges from
obscurity a changed man: a monster negotiator. Using resources and
methods beyond the scope of conventional investigators, he sets out
to finally close the case that cost him his career
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