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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Meinert, Carmen (Editor ), Zöllner, Hans-Bernd (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2010]
Edición:1. Aufl.
Colección: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 ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.