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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... Humane King , the ruler who protects Buddhism thereby protects the state . Because the humane king ( renwang ) explicates the Teaching and disseminates virtue here below , he is called " humane . " Because he has transformed himself ...
... Kings of Illumination ( ming - wang , Sanskrit vidyârâja ) for the defense of the state . Here the view of the Humane King presented by Amoghavajra , while consistent with the Mahayana Bud- dhist conception of perfect Wisdom and ...
... humane king , like all other humans , has " a heart that cannot endure [ the suffering of others ] ( bu ren ren zhi ... king who for- bore from acting on his knowledge of right and wrong could never be called “ humane . ” No humane king ...
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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