TY - BOOK AU - Fu,Charles Wei-hsun AU - Wawrytko,Sandra A. AU - TI - Buddhist ethics and modern society: an international symposium AV - BJ1289 .B833 1991 PY - 1991/// CY - New York, New York PB - Greenwood Press KW - Buddhist ethics KW - Congresses KW - Buddhism KW - Social aspects KW - Doctrines N1 - "Based on ... the first Chung-Hwa International Conference on Buddhism, held January 12-15, 1990, at Taipei's National Central Library"--Foreword; 2; The ethics of Mahayana Buddhism in the "Bodhicaryavatara" / Ryojun Mitomo --; The role of filial piety in Chinese Buddhism : a reassessment; Jan Yun-hua --; The renaissance of Vinaya thought during the late Ming dynasty of China; Venerable Sheng-Yen --; Four great thinkers in modern Chinese Buddhism; Venerable Sheng-Yen --; The conflict between Vinaya and the Chinese monastic rule : the dilemma of disciplinarian Venerable Hung-i; Tso Sze-bong --; Pratimoksa, Bodhi-citta, and Samaya; A.W. Barber --; Mind training practice in everyday life : Tibetan sources; Min Bahadur Shakya --; Nichiren's view of ethics; Gyoko Otani --; The three treasures as the basis of Buddhist ethics and their application in daily life; Kodo Matsunami --; The relevance of the noble eightfold path to contemporary society; P. Don Premasiri --; The scope and contemporary significance of the five precepts; Lily de Silva --; Buddhist ethics and modern politics : a Theravada viewpoint; Sulak Sivaraksa --; Insight, virtue, morality; Chanda N. Saeng --; Environmental ethics : a Buddhist perspective; Padmasiri de Silva --; The Buddhist response to health and disease in environmental perspective; Cromwell Crawford --; Buddhist ethics in the practice of medicine; Venerable Mettanando Bhikkhu --; Buddhist ethics in everyday life in Thailand : a village experiment; Roongraung Boonyoros --; Buddhist ethics and the problem of ethnic minorities : the case of Ladakh; John H. Crook --; Tradition and change in the Sangha : a Buddhist historian looks at Buddhism in America; Daniel B. Stevenson --; The religious position of Buddhist women in Thailand; Chatsumarn Kabilsingh --; On the path to ultimate awakening : women's liberation in the context of Taoism and Ch'an/Zen; Sandra A. Wawrytko --; "The Buddha or the bomb" : ethical implications in Nishitani Keiji's Zen view of science; Steven Heine --; Buddhism and money : the repression of emptiness today; David Loy --; From Paramartha-satya to Samvrti-satya : an attempt at constructive modernization of (Mahaayana) Buddhist ethics; Charles Wei-hsun Fu --; Realizing skillful means in future Buddhist institutions; Masao Shoshin Ichishima --; Buddhism and the contemporary world : the problem of social action in an urban environment; Lewis R. Lancaster --; Buddhist responses to religious pluralism : what are the ethical issues? / David W. Chappell --; Buddhist and western ethics : problematics and possibilities; Kenneth K. Inada --; Buddhist Dharma and natural law : toward a trans-cultural, universal ethics; Shohei Ichimura; 2; 1 N2 - The outgrowth of an historic international conference on Buddhist ethics in the modern world, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of the status of the Buddhist tradition in a contemporary and global context. Buddhist experts from several Asian and Western nations address a number of ethical problems from the Buddhist perspective, including medical and environmental ethics, feminism, the social impacts of materialism, and ethnic minorities. All major schools of Buddhism are represented--Mahayana, Theravada, and Vajrayana--as well as a variety of sects such as Ch'an/Zen, Lojong, and Pure Land. The diverse cultural settings of Buddhism are also well illustrated, ranging from China to Japan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the United States. Throughout, the Buddhist values of compassion and tolerance inform the discussions ER -