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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... established brahmanical religion , the story can be helpful in judging both the plausibility and tendentiousness of later Mahayana aspersions on the so - called Smaller Vehicle ( Hinayana ) —that it is somehow self - absorbed ...
... established custom in civilized society that had led Buddhists in India and other South Asian countries to leave the established social and political order intact rather than try to change it or challenge it to reform . But they should ...
... established Mount Kōya as a cen- ter of Shingon monasticism and gained a prominent place for esoteric rituals at ... establish oneself in the world , cannot learn the principles of governing the country , and cannot attain Nirvana on the ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shōtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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