The Buddha and Religious Diversity.

The Buddha and Religious Diversity.

Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understanding of religious diversity in our time. Examining the complexity and uniqueness of Buddha's approach to religious pluralism using four main categ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Velez de Cea, J. Abraham
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 6.
Subjects:
Buddhism > Relations.
Buddhism > Doctrines.
Buddhism
Buddhism > Doctrines
Interfaith relations
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • The Buddha and Religious Diversity
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I A cross-cultural and interreligious interpretation of the typology exclusivism-inclusivism-pluralism
  • 1 A new framework
  • 1.1 Introducing the framework
  • 1.2 A non-essentialist definition of OTMIX
  • 1.3 A more precise concept of inclusivism
  • 2 Pluralism and degrees of openness
  • 2.1 A new intermediate position: pluralistic-inclusivism
  • 2.2 A new characterization of generic pluralism
  • Part II Exclusivism
  • 3 Clarifying the concept of exclusivism
  • 3.1 Are we all exclusivists?
  • 3.2 Other possible misunderstandings of exclusivism
  • 3.3 Is the Buddha an exclusivist for rejecting many doctrines and practices?
  • 3.4 Did the Buddha have an exclusivist mindset?
  • 4 Is there liberation outside Buddhism?
  • 4.1 Are the four foundations of mindfulness the only way to attain liberation?
  • 4.2 The exclusivist interpretation of the Buddha
  • 4.3 Challenging the exclusivist interpretation of the Buddha
  • Part III Inclusivism
  • 5 Retrieving the early Buddhist position
  • 5.1 Further arguments for a non-exclusivist interpretation of the Buddha
  • 5.2 The concept of paccekabuddha and the origins of exclusivism
  • 6 Are Buddhists inclusivists or exclusivists with inclusivistic attitudes?
  • 6.1 Clarifying the traditional Buddhist approach to religious diversity
  • 6.2 Kristin Kiblinger on Buddhist inclusivism
  • 6.3 Clarifying the concept of inclusivism and inclusivist-minded Buddhists
  • Part IV Pluralistic-inclusivism
  • 7 From inclusivism to pluralistic-inclusivism
  • 7.1 Clarifying the concept of pluralistic-inclusivism
  • 7.2 Other traditions as representations of the Dharma
  • 7.3 Was the Buddha omniscient or open to new knowledge about the Dharma?
  • 8 Beyond Buddhist inclusivism.
  • 8.1 Why inclusivism contradicts Buddhist spirituality
  • 8.2 One or many ultimate goals?
  • 8.3 The multiple ends that the Buddha accepts
  • Part V Pluralism
  • 9 Was the Buddha a pluralist?
  • 9.1 Pluralism as a relativist ideology: Richard Hayes on the Buddha's lack of pluralistic sentiments
  • 9.2 Pluralism as a dialogical attitude: would the Buddha accept Diane Eck's concept of pluralism?
  • 9.3 Pluralism as a view: why the Buddha cannot be considered a pluralist in this sense
  • 10 Applying John Hick's model of pluralism to the Pāli Nikāyas?
  • 10.1 Introducing Hick's pluralistic hypothesis
  • 10.2 Some similarities and differences between Hick's pluralism and the Buddha's pluralistic-inclusivism
  • 10.3 Hick's appropriation of the Buddha's teachings undermines Buddhism
  • Part VI Starting a dialogue between the Buddha and other models of religious diversity
  • 11 A comparative appraisal of Hick, Heim, and the Buddha
  • 11.1 Overview of the three models
  • 11.2 Is Mark Heim's model more sensitive to difference?
  • 11.3 Is Hick's model explanatorily more powerful?
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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