Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights : Dissonances and Resonances /
The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and a Hindu minority in Sri Lanka raise the question of how the issues of human rights and Buddhism are related. The question applies both to the viola...
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Series: | Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction / Meinert, Carmen ; Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
- Different Cultures and the Universality of Human Rights / Hirsch, Alfred
- Buddhismand the Idea of Human Rights. Resonances and Dissonances / Schmidt-Leukel, Perry
- Theravāda Buddhismand Human Rights. Perspectives from Thai Buddhism / Seeger, Martin
- The Purification of the Mind and the Encounter with Those who Suffer. A Christian View of Buddhismand Human Rights / Fleming, Kenneth
- Is Mahāyāna Buddhism a Humanism? Some Remarks on Buddhismin China / Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig
- Buddhist Responses to State Control of Religion in China at the Century's Turn / Zhiru, Shi
- Translations of Human Rights. Tibetan Contexts / Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich ; Brox, Trine
- Human Rights and Exile-Tibetan Politics / Römer, Stephanie
- Women's Rights in the Vajrayāna Tradition / Tsedroen, Jampa ; Roloff, Carola
- Bibliography
- Index
- Authors.