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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... Lotus is such that the dragon girl could transcend her infe- rior social condition to achieve spiritual liberation . In the Lotus as a whole the inferior status of women is accepted , and a sex change ( as here ) or rebirth as a man is ...
... Lotus Sutra endows her with the two adornments of wisdom and merit . " 5 Of this a recent thorough scholar of the subject has fur- ther said : This interpretation accepts the premise that women gener- ally lack the capacity for full ...
... Lotus Sutra , trans . Watson , 187–188 ; SCT I , 453–454 . 5. Paul Groner , “ The Lotus Sutra and Saicho's Interpretation of the Realization of Buddhahood with This Very Body , ” in Tanabe , The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture , 61 . 6 ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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