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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... become a brahmana In whom is truth and dhamma , He is the pure one , he is the brahmana . ( 398 ) And I do not call one a brahmana Merely by being born from a womb , Sprung from a [ brahmana ] mother He is merely a bho - sayer . ( 399 ) ...
... become the king Shakra . Third , she cannot become a devil king . Fourth , she cannot become a wheel - turning sage king . Fifth , she cannot be- come a Buddha . How then could a woman like you be able to attain Buddhahood so quickly ...
... become separated from it . If one applies one- self to this without any interruption , making sure that the mind of the Way is master of one's self and that the human mind always listens to its commands , then the precarious- ness and ...
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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