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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... Sutra , which counterposes the ideal of the religious layman to that of the sequestered monk . In the Vimalakirti Sutra the role of the arhat ( the monk in the Dhammapada ) is downgraded in comparison to the virtuous layman Vimalakirti ...
... Sutra , trans . Watson , 110 . 4. 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 . " Philosophy East and West , v . 52. n . 1 , January . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press . The Râmâyana of Valmiki . 1984. Gen. ed . Robert P. Goldman . Vol . 2 , Ayodhyakanda , trans . Sheldon Pollock . Princeton ...
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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