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Pages: 265
Authors: Ugo Dessì
Categories: Buddhist ethics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

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Contemporary Shin Buddhism is characterized by the simultaneous presence of an almost radical aversion to a normative approach to ethics, a rich and multifacete
The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Ugo Dessì
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-23 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book analyzes social aspects of Shin Buddhism (J?do Shinsh?), a mainstream Japanese religious tradition. The contributions collected here especially focus
Contemporary Buddhist Ethics
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Damien Keown
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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This innovative volume brings together the views of leading scholars on a range of controversial subjects including human rights, animal rights, ecology, aborti
Exile and Otherness
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Ilana Maymind
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-23 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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In Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides, Ilana Maymind argues that Shinran (1173–1263), the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo Shin
Cultivating Spirituality
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Mark L. Blum
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-02 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Four Shin Buddhist thinkers reflect on their tradition’s encounter with modernity. Cultivating Spirituality is a seminal anthology of Shin Buddhist thought, on