Nobility and CivilityHarvard University Press, 15. okt 2004 - 256 pages Globalization has become an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Some leaders, in both the East and the West, believe that human rights are culture-bound and that liberal democracy is essentially Western, inapplicable to the non-Western world. How can civilized life be preserved and issues of human rights and civil society be addressed if the material forces dominating world affairs are allowed to run blindly, uncontrolled by any cross-cultural consensus on how human values can be given effective expression and direction? |
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... Buddha on the basis of the principles con- tained in the Four Noble Truths . " Noble " here reflects the aristocratic calling of the kshatriya class from which the Buddha comes , but it is given new meaning in fulfillment of the ...
... Buddha , based on the belief in the “ sacred power associated with the person of the Buddha .... The Buddha as consecrator of the land plays a central role ; that is the Buddha's physical presence serves to establish a holy land " ( 92 ) ...
... Buddha ] . Monks must and should pay him all homage . He who propa- gates the teaching of the Buddha is the lord of men . I am not doing obeisance to the Emperor , I am merely worship- ing the Buddha . " In response to this acceptance ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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