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

Includes bibliographies and index.

Moral Development in the Jātakas, Avadānas, and Pāli Nikāyas / Martin Adam -- Madhyamaka Ethics / Bronwyn Finnigan -- Buddhist Ethics in Contemporary Tibet / Holly Gayley -- The Bodhisattva Precepts / Paul Groner -- Karma / Peter Harvey -- The Buddhist Just Society / Peter Harvey -- Ethics in Zen / Christopher Ives -- Buddhist Environmental Ethics: An Emergent and Contextual Approach / Stephanie Kaza -- Human Rights / Damien Keown -- Euthanasia / Damien Keown -- Bhiksuni Ordination / Bhikkhu Analayo -- The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in Asia / Sallie B. King -- Being and its Other: Suicide in Buddhist Ethics / Martin Kovan -- Buddhism and Sexuality / Amy Paris Langenberg -- East Asian Buddhist Ethics / Richard Madsen -- The Psychology of Moral Judgment and Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Ethics / Emily Mcrae -- The Vinaya / Charles S. Prebish -- The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in the West / Christopher Queen -- A Perspective on Ethics in the Lotus Sūtra / Gene Reeves -- Buddhist Economics / James Mark Shields -- Tantric Ethics / Gareth Sparham -- Ethics without Norms? Buddhist Reductionism and the Logical Space of Reasons / Dan Arnold -- Buddhist Ethics Compared to Western Ethics / S�ilavādin Meynard Vasen -- Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom / Justin S. Whitaker, Douglass Smith -- Buddhism and Animal Rights / Paul Waldau -- Introduction / Daniel Cozort, James Mark Shields -- Buddhist Perspectives on Abortion and Reproduction / Michael Barnhart -- The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers / Barbra R. Clayton -- Buddhism and Women / Alice Collett -- Ethics in Pure Land Schools / Michael Conway -- Buddhism, War, and Violence / Michael Jerryson -- Buddhist Ethics in South and Southeast Asia / Juliana Essen.

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 concept of karma - that intentions and actions have future consequences for an individual - and is summarized as Right Speech, Right Action, and Right Livelihood, three of the elements of the Eightfold Path. Although they were later elaborated and interpreted in a multitude of ways, none of these core principles were ever abandoned. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Buddhist ethics in the twenty-first century.

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