Destroying Mara forever : Buddhist ethics essays in honor of Damien Keown / edited by John Powers and Charles S. Prebish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keown, Damien, 1951-

Powers, John, 1957-

Prebish, Charles S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist ethics.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 293 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / John Powers and Charles S. Prebish

Śāntideva, virtue, and consequentialism / Barbra R. Clayton

Scholar monks and meditator monks revisited / L.S. Cousins

Buddhist perspectives on crime and punishment / Peter Harvey

You're only as good as you look: Indian Buddhist associations of virtue and physical appearance / John Powers

Mahāyāna ethics and American Buddhism: subtle solutions or creative perversions? / Charles S. Prebish

Is Buddhist ethics virtue ethics? Toward a dialogue with Śāntideva and a footnote to Keown / Paul Williams

Buddhism, war and peace in Sri Lanka / George D. Bond

Ethics in an era of reflexive modernization: a Buddhist response / Peter D. Hershock

In search of a green dharma: philosophical issues in Buddhist environmental ethics / Christopher Ives

Elements of engaged Buddhist ethical theory / Sallie B. King

Suffering made sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and modern therapeutic approaches to suffering's silver lining / Daniel Cozort

Something rotten in the state of Buddhaland: good governance in Theravāda Buddhism / Ian Harris

Foundations of ethics and practice in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism / Charles B. Jones

Thai Buddhism in the twenty-first century: contesting views / Donald K. Swearer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxvi) and index.

ISBN:

9781559393416

1559393416

OCLC:

421535056

Publisher Number:

99936668706