The Dharma And Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics

Author : Joel Magnuson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030972259

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The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics by Joel Magnuson Pdf

This book defends and articulates an "Engaged Buddhist" approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism. The author posits that Buddhist understandings of the distortions of greed, aversion, and ignorance can be read to apply not only to mental states but also to socio-political ones, and that such a reading suggests rational responses to current social and environmental challenges. The book proposes that we engage both "inner and outer" modes of transformation through which to free ourselves from our current human-made, dysfunctional systems: the former, by examining the workings of our own minds, the latter by criticizing and reforming our economic systems. Since traditional Buddhism provides few sources to build a Buddhist economic vision, this work brings together Buddhist notions of skillful practice, John Dewey's pragmatic principles for social provisioning, and institutional economics. The author provides two case studies for experiments in Buddhist-based socioeconomic policies, Thailand and Bhutan. Of special interest is the implied parallel between worldviews emerging from modern socially-engaged Buddhism and Dewey's notion of a human existential drive to shape the world in collectively beneficial ways. Joel Magnuson is an Affiliated Professor of Economics at Portland State University. He is the author of many books, as well as numerous articles in journals and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His research interests include mindful economics, Buddhist economics, and institutional reform.

Author : Fred Eppsteiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UVA:X002251699

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The Path of Compassion by Fred Eppsteiner Pdf

"In recent years there has been a significant shift in recognition of Buddhism's social dimension. To encourage this direction, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship has assembled this impressive collection of writings by distinguished teachers and commentators on 'socially engaged Buddhism, ' a Buddhism which is not just in meditation halls but which pervades all our everyday lives and concerns."--Cover.

Author : Joel Magnuson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030972240

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The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics by Joel Magnuson Pdf

This book defends and articulates an “Engaged Buddhist” approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism. The author posits that Buddhist understandings of the distortions of greed, aversion, and ignorance can be read to apply not only to mental states but also to socio-political ones, and that such a reading suggests rational responses to current social and environmental challenges. The book proposes that we engage both “inner and outer” modes of transformation through which to free ourselves from our current human-made, dysfunctional systems: the former, by examining the workings of our own minds, the latter by criticizing and reforming our economic systems. Since traditional Buddhism provides few sources to build a Buddhist economic vision, this work brings together Buddhist notions of skillful practice, John Dewey’s pragmatic principles for social provisioning, and institutional economics. The author provides two case studies for experiments in Buddhist-based socioeconomic policies, Thailand and Bhutan. Of special interest is the implied parallel between worldviews emerging from modern socially-engaged Buddhism and Dewey’s notion of a human existential drive to shape the world in collectively beneficial ways.

Author : Ē. Tī Āriyaratne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X006101620

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Schumacher Lectures on Buddhist Economics by Ē. Tī Āriyaratne Pdf

Author : Christopher S. Queen,Charles S. Prebish,Damien Keown
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9780700715930

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Action Dharma by Christopher S. Queen,Charles S. Prebish,Damien Keown Pdf

These essays chart the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Engaged Buddhists have sought new ways to comfort society's oppressed communities.

Author : Sulak Sivaraksa
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780285640108

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The Wisdom of Sustainability by Sulak Sivaraksa Pdf

Emphasising human-scale, local, sustainable alternatives to globalised industry, Sulak Sivaraksa offers a way to restructure our economy on Buddhist principles and on a basis that will promote personal development.Based on decades of thought and writing Sivaraksa outlines how measuring economic success by GDP (Gross Domestic Product) could be replaced by GNH (Gross National Happiness). It examines globalisation from a Buddhist perspective, arguing that healing the planet starts by creating sustainability at the individual and global levels.

Author : Chanju Mun
Publisher : Blue Pine Books
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9780977755318

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Buddhism and Peace by Chanju Mun Pdf

Buddhism and Peace: Theory and Practice is among the most comprehensive books on this topic to date. Of the seven international seminars on Buddhism and Leadership for Peace, which have gained worldwide reputation in leading discussions on Buddhism and peace, the seventh seminar was the most successful. Thirty-one eminent scholars and activists among the more than forty participants presented papers on Buddhism and peace from the varying perspectives of their expertise. The two major Buddhist traditions, the Theravada and the Mahayana, are equally represented in this book. Likewise, a balance is struck in this book in terms of the number of articles dealing with theory and those concentrating on practice. The result is a collection of essential readings on the application of Buddhist wisdom for peace activists, scholars of religion, social scientists, and others in these troubled times, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

Author : Daniel Cozort,James Mark Shields
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191063169

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The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics by Daniel Cozort,James Mark Shields Pdf

Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this moral core is founded on the concept of karma—that intentions and actions have future consequences for an individual—and is summarized as Right Speech, Right Action, and Right Livelihood, three of the elements of the Eightfold Path. Although they were later elaborated and interpreted in a multitude of ways, none of these core principles were ever abandoned. The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Buddhist ethics in the twenty-first century. The Handbook discusses the foundations of Buddhist ethics focusing on karma and the precepts looking at abstinence from harming others, stealing, and intoxication. It considers ethics in the different Buddhist traditions and the similarities they share, and compares Buddhist ethics to Western ethics and the psychology of moral judgments. The volume also investigates Buddhism and society analysing economics, environmental ethics, and Just War ethics. The final section focuses on contemporary issues surrounding Buddhist ethics, including gender, sexuality, animal rights, and euthanasia. This groundbreaking collection offers an indispensable reference work for students and scholars of Buddhist ethics and comparative moral philosophy.

Author : Sallie B. King
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824833511

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Socially Engaged Buddhism by Sallie B. King Pdf

Socially Engaged Buddhism is an introduction to the contemporary movement of Buddhists, East and West, who actively engage with the problems of the world—social, political, economic, and environmental—on the basis of Buddhist ideas, values, and spirituality. Sallie B. King, one of North America’s foremost experts on the subject, identifies in accessible language the philosophical and ethical thinking behind the movement and examines how key principles such as karma, the Four Noble Truths, interdependence, nonharmfulness, and nonjudgmentalism relate to social engagement. Many people believe that Buddhists focus exclusively on spiritual attainment. Professor King examines why Engaged Buddhists involve themselves with the problems of the world and how they reconcile this involvement with the Buddhist teaching of nonattachment from worldly things. Engaged Buddhists, she answers, point out that because the root of human suffering is in the mind, not the world, the pursuit of enlightenment does not require a turning away from the world. Working to reduce suffering in humans, living things, and the planet is integral to spiritual practice and leads to selflessness and compassion. Socially Engaged Buddhism is a sustained reflection on social action as a form of spirituality expressed in acts of compassion, grassroots empowerment, nonjudgmentalism, and nonviolence. It offers an inspiring example of how one might work for solutions to the troubles that threaten the peace and well being of our planet and its people.

Author : Todd Lewis,Gary Delaney DeAngelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199373093

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Teaching Buddhism by Todd Lewis,Gary Delaney DeAngelis Pdf

This volume explores the ways that leading scholars of Buddhism are updating, revising, and correcting widely accepted understandings of, and instruction on Buddhist traditions. Each essay presents new insight on Buddhist thought in such a way that it can be easily applied to university and monastic courses.

Author : Ananda W. P. Guruge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1434332241

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Buddhism, Economics and Science by Ananda W. P. Guruge Pdf

It was by chance how they met that cold November day. Marlene married with two small girls, no stranger to the heartache that could come from this cruel, cruel world. Dillon, single father of two was just coming out of his own bad experiences with the life of marriage and divorce. It would be these very experiences and heartaches that would bring two total strangers together on a journey of enlightenment, a road of recovery, and the true joy and excitement of finding that one special person. The one who brings out the life in you, makes you laugh, comforts you when you cry. The one who shares your ideas and dreams about the future. The person who can finish your thoughts before you can finish them because their heart is so in tune to yours. The person you know only God could have put into your life at that one particular moment because He knew the impact it would make in your life and in your heart. Or quite simply, He knew you were soul mates.

Author : Ernest C. H. Ng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030351144

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Introduction to Buddhist Economics by Ernest C. H. Ng Pdf

Living in a market-driven economy where short-term profit and economic growth appear to be the ultimate goal, this book explores how Buddhist teachings could bridge the divide between our spiritual and material needs and reconcile the tension between doing good for social interest and doing well for financial success. This book serves as a pioneering effort to systematically introduce Buddhist Economics as an interdisciplinary subject to audience with limited background in either Buddhism or economics. It elaborates some core concepts in Buddhist teachings, their relevance to economics, and means of achieving sustainability for individuals, society and the environment with the cultivation of ethical living and well-being. Through scholarly research from relevant fields including Buddhist studies, economics, behavioral finance, cognitive science, and psychology, this book illustrates the relevance of Buddhist values in the contemporary economy and society, as well as the efficacy of Buddhist perspectives on decision-making in daily life.

Author : David R. Loy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781458783783

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Money, Sex, War, Karm by David R. Loy Pdf

What's Wrong with Sex? How to Drive Your Karma Consciousness Commodified. The Karma of Food. The Three Poisons, Institutionalized. Why We Love War. These are just some of the chapters in this brilliant new book from David R. Loy. In little time, Loy has become one of the Buddhist worldview's most powerful advocates, explaining like no one else its ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world. In this, his most accessible work to date, he offers sharp and even shockingly clear presentations of oft-misunderstood Buddhist staples-the working of karma, the nature of self, the causes of trouble on both the individual and societal levels-and the real reasons behind our collective sense of ''never enough,'' whether it's time, money, sex, security even war. Loy's ''Buddhist Revolution'' is nothing less than a radical change in the ways we can approach our lives, our planet, the collective delusions that pervade our language, culture, and even our spirituality.

Author : Laszlo Zsolnai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048193103

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Ethical Principles and Economic Transformation - A Buddhist Approach by Laszlo Zsolnai Pdf

Buddhism points out that emphasizing individuality and promoting the greatest fulfillment of the desires of the individual conjointly lead to destruction. The book promotes the basic value-choices of Buddhism, namely happiness, peace and permanence. Happiness research convincingly shows that not material wealth but the richness of personal relationships determines happiness. Not things, but people make people happy. Western economics tries to provide people with happiness by supplying enormous quantities of things and today’s dominating business models are based on and cultivates narrow self-centeredness.But what people need are caring relationships and generosity. Buddhist economics makes these values accessible by direct provision. Peace can be achieved in nonviolent ways. Wanting less can substantially contribute to this endeavor and make it happen more easily. Permanence, or ecological sustainability, requires a drastic cutback in the present level of consumption and production globally. This reduction should not be an inconvenient exercise of self-sacrifice. In the noble ethos of reducing suffering it can be a positive development path for humanity.

Author : Sallie B. King
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824861629

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Being Benevolence by Sallie B. King Pdf

Engaged Buddhism is the contemporary movement of nonviolent social and political activism found throughout the Buddhist world. Its ethical theory sees the world in terms of cause and effect, a view that discourages its practitioners from becoming adversaries, blaming or condemning the other. Its leaders make some of the most important contributions in the Buddhist world to thinking about issues in political theory, human rights, nonviolence, and social justice. Being Benevolence provides for the first time a rich overview of the main ideas and arguments of prominent Engaged Buddhist thinkers and activists on a variety of questions: What kind of political system should modern Asian states have? What are the pros and cons of Western "liberalism"? Can Buddhism support the idea of human rights? Can there ever be a nonviolent nation-state? It identifies the roots of Engaged Buddhist social ethics in such traditional Buddhist concepts and practices as interdependence, compassion, and meditation, and shows how these are applied to particular social and political issues. It illuminates the movement’s metaphysical views on the individual and society and goes on to examine how Engaged Buddhists respond to fundamental questions in political theory concerning the proper balance between the individual and society. The second half of the volume focuses on applied social-political issues: human rights, nonviolence, and social justice.