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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... Buddhism's consecration and legitimation of imperial rule , similar to Buddhism's providing a mystique for ruler- ship in South Asia Buddhism . In Tang China this was notably illustrated by the career of the leading exponent of the ...
... Buddhism , the Buddhist clergy would sup- port him , and he would enjoy the beneficent religious influ- ences of Buddhism . This was essentially a symbiotic rela- tionship between two separate and distinct organisms . The state ( in ...
... Buddhism . The fundamen- tal force that created what is known as Kamakura period Buddhism was this standpoint of the warrior who willingly sacrifices his life for his lord . Kamakura period Buddhism undoubtedly represents a Japanization ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
Copyright | |
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