Action dharma : new studies in engaged Buddhism / edited by Christopher Queen, Charles Prebish and Damien Keown.
Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Fourteen new essays treat the historical origins, global range, teachings and practices, and leaders and organizations that make up the latest tu...
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RoutledgeCurzon,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Do bodhisattvas relieve poverty? / Stephen Jenkins
- Dōgen's ceasless practice / Daniel Zelinski
- Nichiren's activist heirs Sōka Gakkai, Risshō Kosekai, Nipponzan Myōhōji / Jacqueline I. Stone
- Buddhism and development the ecology monks of Thailand / Susan M. Darlington
- Maha Ghosananda as a contemplative social activist / Matthew Weiner
- Sarvodaya Shramadana's quest for peace / George D. Bond
- Buddhist Tsu-Chi foundation of Taiwan / C. Julia Huang
- Social engagement in South Korean Buddhism / Frank Tedesco
- Buddhism and the burukamin oppression or liberation? / Leslie A. Alldritt
- Engaged and meditating Vipassana Hawaii's Burmese connection / Harriet Kirkley
- Widening the circles communities of color and Western Buddhist convert sanghas / Sharon Smith
- Sumbol [i.e. Symbol] and narration in Buddhist prison ministry / Virginia Cohn Parkum and J. Anthony Stultz
- Engaged Buddhist ethics mistaking the boat for the shore / James E. Deitrick
- Does Buddhism need human rights? / Derek S. Jeffreys
- Engaged Buddhism new and inproved? / Thomas Freeman Yarnall.