This-worldly nibbana : a Buddhist-feminist social ethic for peacemaking in the global community /

Offering a feminist analysis of foundational Buddhist texts, along with a Buddhist approach to social issues in a globalized world, Hsiao-Lan Hu revitalizes Buddhist social ethics for contemporary times. Hu's feminist exegesis references the Nikāya-s from the "Discourse Basket" of the...

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Main Author: Hu, Hsiao-Lan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Socio-ethical dimensions of early Buddhism
  • A feminist exegesis of non-self: constitution of personhood and identity
  • Person-in-kammic-network: moral agency and social responsibility
  • Buddhist self-reconditioning and community-building
  • Conclusion: this-worldly nibbana and participatory peacemaking.