Hu This-Worldly Nibbana

A Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethic for Peacemaking in the Global Community
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3934-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hu, Hsiao-Lan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Foundational Texts and Basic Teachings: Nikaya-s in the Pali Canon
Dhammic Exegesis: Interdependent Co-Arising and the Cessation of Dukkha
Constructing Non-Adversarial Engaged Feminist-Buddhist Social Ethics
2. Socio-Ethical Dimensions of Early Buddhism
The Liberative Is Ethical: This-Worldly Wholesomeness
Good Friends: The Entire Holy Life
Four Assemblies of the Sangha: De-Essentializing Social Hierarchies
Renunciates and Laity
Class and Gender

3. A Feminist Exegesis of Non-Self: Constitution of Personhood and Identity
Five Aggregates: The Constitution of Individual “Self”
Seeing “Non-Self” in the Making of Gender Identity
Subject Formation and Cultural Delimitation

4. Person-in-Kammic-Network: Moral Agency and Social ResponsibilityKamma as Taught by the Buddha: Volitional Actions Here and Now
Global Co-Arising of Dukkha

5. Buddhist Self-Reconditioning and Community-BuildingThe Three Learnings: Socially Conscionable Self-Reconditioning
Person-in-Community: Buddhist Community-Building Ideals

6. Conclusion: This-Worldly Nibbana and Participatory PeacemakingBoundary-Crossing Interconnections
Peace at Every Step

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hsiao-Lan Hu is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy.