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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... Hui - yuan speaks for a religious path that closely resembles the Dhammapada's heroic ideal of spiritual nobility , calling on the monk to separate himself from ordinary society and congregate with like - minded as- pirants to ...
... Hui - yuan's distinction between the two , as some did , they still had to decide whom to rec- ognize as clerical and qualified to enjoy the immunities and exemptions Hui - yuan claimed for the monk . This came to involve the licensing ...
... Hui - yuan's time over the unre- solved question of the state's authority and control over the Buddhist clergy . Buddhism's early claim to exist beyond the authority of the state , as asserted by Hui - yuan , was radically trans- formed ...
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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