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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... religious life is identified primarily , and primordially , with meditation , a practice and a state that anyone of any class can aspire to . In this case Theravada Buddhism presents itself as egalitarian and open to all . At the same ...
... religious calling and were not subject to civil authority . Buddhist laymen , like other laymen , were obliged by the customary etiquette to acknowledge respect for and loyalty to the sovereign , but the Buddhist clergy , by the nature ...
... religious salvation . By the time of Rennyo ( 1415–1499 ) , later head of the True Pure Land sect , the internalization and privatization of religious experience through personal faith and trust in Amida alone , and through exclusive ...
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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