The Oxford handbook of Buddhist ethics

The Oxford handbook of Buddhist ethics / edited by Daniel Cozort and James Mark Shields.

Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this moral core is founded on the...

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Other Authors: Cozort, Daniel, 1953- (Editor), Shields, James Mark (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
Subjects:
Buddhist ethics.
Buddhism > Doctrines.
Buddhist philosophy.
Ethics.
Religion.
religion (discipline)
ethics (philosophy)
Buddhist ethics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Daniel Cozort, James Mark Shields
  • Part I. Foundations. 1. Karma / Peter Harvey
  • 2. The Bodhisattva precepts / Paul Groner
  • 3. Ethics, meditation, and wisdom / Justin S. Whitaker, Douglass Smith
  • Part II. Ethics and Buddhist traditions. 4. Moral development in the Jātakas, Avadānas, and Pāli Nikāyas / Martin T. Adam
  • 5. The Vinaya / Charles S. Prebish
  • 6. Bhikṣuṇī ordination / Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • 7. The changing way of the Bodhisattva : superheroes, saints, and social workers / Barbra Clayton
  • 8. Madhyamaka ethics / Bronwyn Finnigan
  • 9. Ethics in Pure Land schools / Michael Conway
  • 10. A perspective on ethics in the Lotus Sūtra / Gene Reeves
  • 11. Ethics in zen / Christopher Ives
  • 12. Tantric ethics / Gareth Sparham
  • 13. Buddhist ethics in South and Southeast Asia / Juliana Essen
  • 14. East Asian Buddhist ethics / Richard Madsen
  • 15. Buddhist ethics in contemporary Tibet / Holly Gayley
  • Part III. Comparative perspectives. 16. Buddhist ethics compared to Western ethics / Sīlavādin Meynard Vasen
  • 17. The psychology of moral judgment and perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist ethics / Emily McRae
  • 18. Ethics without norms? Buddhist reductionism and the logical space of reasons / Dan Arnold
  • Part IV. Buddhism and society. 19. The Buddhist just society / Peter Harvey
  • 20. Buddhist economics : problems and possibilities / James Mark Shields
  • 21. Buddhist environmental ethics : an emergent and contextual approach / Stephanie Kaza
  • 22. Buddhism, war, and violence / Michael Jerryson
  • 23. The ethics of engaged Buddhism in Asia / Sallie B. King
  • 24. The ethics of engaged Buddhism in the West / Christopher Queen
  • Part V. Contemporary issues. 25. Human rights / Damien Keown
  • 26. Buddhism and women / Alice Collett
  • 27. Buddhism and sexuality / Amy Paris Langenberg
  • 28. Buddhist perspectives on abortion and reproduction / Michael G, Barnhart
  • 29. Euthanasia / Damien Keown
  • 30. Being and its other : suicide in Buddhist ethics / Martin Kovan
  • 31. Buddhism and animal rights / Paul Waldau.

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