The Buddha and Religious Diversity.
Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understanding of religious diversity in our time. Examining the complexity and uniqueness of Buddha's approach to religious pluralism using four main categ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Colección: | Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ;
6. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Buddha and Religious Diversity
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I A cross-cultural and interreligious interpretation of the typology exclusivism-inclusivism-pluralism
- 1 A new framework
- 1.1 Introducing the framework
- 1.2 A non-essentialist definition of OTMIX
- 1.3 A more precise concept of inclusivism
- 2 Pluralism and degrees of openness
- 2.1 A new intermediate position: pluralistic-inclusivism
- 2.2 A new characterization of generic pluralism
- Part II Exclusivism
- 3 Clarifying the concept of exclusivism
- 3.1 Are we all exclusivists?
- 3.2 Other possible misunderstandings of exclusivism
- 3.3 Is the Buddha an exclusivist for rejecting many doctrines and practices?
- 3.4 Did the Buddha have an exclusivist mindset?
- 4 Is there liberation outside Buddhism?
- 4.1 Are the four foundations of mindfulness the only way to attain liberation?
- 4.2 The exclusivist interpretation of the Buddha
- 4.3 Challenging the exclusivist interpretation of the Buddha
- Part III Inclusivism
- 5 Retrieving the early Buddhist position
- 5.1 Further arguments for a non-exclusivist interpretation of the Buddha
- 5.2 The concept of paccekabuddha and the origins of exclusivism
- 6 Are Buddhists inclusivists or exclusivists with inclusivistic attitudes?
- 6.1 Clarifying the traditional Buddhist approach to religious diversity
- 6.2 Kristin Kiblinger on Buddhist inclusivism
- 6.3 Clarifying the concept of inclusivism and inclusivist-minded Buddhists
- Part IV Pluralistic-inclusivism
- 7 From inclusivism to pluralistic-inclusivism
- 7.1 Clarifying the concept of pluralistic-inclusivism
- 7.2 Other traditions as representations of the Dharma
- 7.3 Was the Buddha omniscient or open to new knowledge about the Dharma?
- 8 Beyond Buddhist inclusivism.
- 8.1 Why inclusivism contradicts Buddhist spirituality
- 8.2 One or many ultimate goals?
- 8.3 The multiple ends that the Buddha accepts
- Part V Pluralism
- 9 Was the Buddha a pluralist?
- 9.1 Pluralism as a relativist ideology: Richard Hayes on the Buddha's lack of pluralistic sentiments
- 9.2 Pluralism as a dialogical attitude: would the Buddha accept Diane Eck's concept of pluralism?
- 9.3 Pluralism as a view: why the Buddha cannot be considered a pluralist in this sense
- 10 Applying John Hick's model of pluralism to the Pāli Nikāyas?
- 10.1 Introducing Hick's pluralistic hypothesis
- 10.2 Some similarities and differences between Hick's pluralism and the Buddha's pluralistic-inclusivism
- 10.3 Hick's appropriation of the Buddha's teachings undermines Buddhism
- Part VI Starting a dialogue between the Buddha and other models of religious diversity
- 11 A comparative appraisal of Hick, Heim, and the Buddha
- 11.1 Overview of the three models
- 11.2 Is Mark Heim's model more sensitive to difference?
- 11.3 Is Hick's model explanatorily more powerful?
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.