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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... monk . This came to involve the licensing of monks , and eventually the estab- lishment of superintendencies to ascertain whether monks were not simply taking advantage of the immunities , while neglecting , if not actually violating ...
... monks " charged with oversight of monastic affairs . He was not the head of an autonomous religious organization , but rather an appointee of the Emperor and given tonsure by the Em- peror's hand . The religious rationale for this ...
... monks that augmented studies of Buddhist scripture , rit- ual , and meditation techniques with the reading of Con- fucian texts . He was a strong proponent of the monks ' pre- paring themselves for broad service to human society in ...
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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