Buddhist Answers To Current Issues

Author : Ananda Guruge
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1420816438
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Buddhist Answers to Current Issues written by Ananda Guruge and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUDDHIST ANSWERS TO CURRENT ISSUES: Studies in Socially Engaged Humanistic Buddhism An internationally reputed Buddhist scholar and activist - Vice-President and Liaison Officer to UN and UNESCO of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB); Patron, European Buddhist Union; President, World Buddhist University Council; Honorary Consultative Editor, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism: Professor of Buddhist Studies, Dean of Academic Affairs and Director, International Academy of Buddhism (IAB), University of the West, California, USA; Editor, Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism; Member, UNESCO International Interreligious Council; Former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, France, U.S.A., Spain, Algeria and Mexico; Former Senior Special Advisor to the Director General of UNESCO; and Author of 49 books on Buddhism, history and education - explores in eight chapters Buddhist answers to such issues as - Can Buddhism be the dogma-free humanistic spirituality, which the humankind searches to replace organized religion? How can Buddhism help in socialization and development of social awareness and responsibility of children and youth? What is the Buddhist bioethical response to abortion, euthanasia, suicide, asexual procreation, cloning, genetic engineering, eugenics, euphenics and the like? How does Buddhism help to accomplish the many-sided goals of a "whole person" education? How can Buddhism contribute to securing the human right to Peace, Security and Prosperity? What tasks lie ahead for the traditionally Buddhist countries to preserve and propagate Buddhism? How can Buddhism in the West usher in Universal Buddhism? How can we tap Sino-Indian Buddhist literature to answer current issues?

Author : Evan Thompson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226551
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Why I Am Not a Buddhist written by Evan Thompson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, "a science of the mind." In this provocative book, Evan Thompson argues that this representation of Buddhism is false. In lucid and entertaining prose, Thompson dives deep into both Western and Buddhist philosophy to explain how the goals of science and religion are fundamentally different. Efforts to seek their unification are wrongheaded and promote mistaken ideas of both. He suggests cosmopolitanism instead, a worldview with deep roots in both Eastern and Western traditions. Smart, sympathetic, and intellectually ambitious, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Buddhism's place in our world today."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Yalith Wijesurendra
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483688380
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Buddhist Answers: For the Critical Questions written by Yalith Wijesurendra and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddhist Answers contains detailed answers for the critical philosophical questions asked about Buddhism. This book is a result of extreme hard work of the author, researching into the lengthy Tripitaka, the doctrine of Lord Buddha. This book intends to establish a rational basis to the Buddhist beliefs. Lord Buddha preached in Jnanasaara Samuccaya' that, As the wise test gold by burning, cutting and rubbing it (on a piece of touchstone), so are you to accept my words after examining them and not merely out of regard to me.' The author did his level best to avoid personal opinions but to provide coherent answers by directly referring to various discourses by Lord Buddha in Tripitaka. This book can play a vital role in the international propagation of Buddhism. Buddhist missionaries can use this book as a handbook to answer the various philosophical questions which they encounter.

Author : Rita M. Gross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441170138
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Soaring and Settling written by Rita M. Gross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuum congratulates Rita M. Gross on being the recipient of the 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.As a practicing Buddhist for over 20 years, Rita Gross is concerned with how Eastern wisdom traditions transform our lives, and are themselves transformed by contact with the wisdom of the West.Rita Gross considers "lifestyle" issues, from conception to death and grieving; social issues such as population control, work and family, and environmental ethics; and theological issues such as the use of goddess images in Buddhism, and several fascinating practices from Gross's own Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist tradition.

Author : Paul R. Fleischman
Publisher : Pariyatti Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1928706223
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism written by Paul R. Fleischman and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, this thought-provoking essay explores the Buddha's teaching to find one prescription: not war, not pacifism but nonviolence.

Author : Xingyun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788192302065
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Look at Modern Social Issues written by Xingyun and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles S. Prebish
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520213017
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Faces of Buddhism in America written by Charles S. Prebish and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-12-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors bring some of the leading voices in Buddhist studies to examine the debates surrounding contemporary Buddhism's many faces. Race, feminism, homosexuality, psychology, environmentalism, and notions of authority are some of the issues confronting the religion today. 9 photos.

Author : H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559391626
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Answers written by H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India, at the place where the Buddha attained enlightenment, it became a well-established tradition for the Dalai Lama to spend several days each year giving teachings to Buddhists from all over the world. Following his teachings, he held informal group discussions with Western students of Buddhism. In these lively exchanges, the Dalai Lama exhibits clear and penetrating insight into issues that are most important to Western students. Some of the topics discussed are: psychology, Christianity, being a practicing Buddhist in the West, spiritual teachers, reincarnation, emptiness, tantra, protector deities, liberation, meditation, compassion, disciplining others, the power of holy places, and retreats.

Author : Xingyun
Publisher : Buddha's Light Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781932293227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Look at Modern Social Issues written by Xingyun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Look at Modern Social Issues is adapted from a series of lectures by Venerable Master Hsing Yun in which he provides a Buddhist perspective on the issues of the day. Always pragmatic and insightful, A Look at Modern Social Issues is an engaging example of what Buddhism has to offer to our contemporary discourse.

Author : Padma-tshe-riṅ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787802532700
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book 养心甘露 written by Padma-tshe-riṅ and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's writings on Buddhist answers to current issues in socially engaged humanistic Buddhism.