Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2010

Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights

Dissonances and Resonances

Edited by: Carmen Meinert and Hans-Bernd Zöllner

Volume 3 in the series 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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839412633

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About this book

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 violation of basic rights in Buddhist countries and to the defence of those rights which are well-grounded in Buddhist teachings.
The volume provides academic essays that reflect this up to now rather neglected issue from the point of view of the three main Buddhist traditions, Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. It provides multi-faceted and surprising insights into a rather unlikely relationship.

Author information

Carmen Meinert (Dr. phil.), sinologist and tibetologist, currently works as a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen (Germany) and teaches at the University of Bochum. Her field of research includes Chinese and Tibetan intellectual and religious history and Buddhist studies.
Hans-Bernd Zöllner (Dr. phil.) teaches East Asian Studies at the Universities of Hamburg and Passau. His research focuses on Theravada Buddhism and politics and on modern history in Burma/Myanmar.

Reviews

»[The] transdisciplinary, transcultural, and transreligious approach is the strong point of this book.«
Gudula Linck, Internationales Asienforum, 3-4 (2011)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Foreword Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Carmen Meinert and Hans-Bernd Zöllner Open Access Download PDF	9
Different Cultures and the Universality of Human Rights Alfred Hirsch Open Access Download PDF	21
Buddhismand the Idea of Human Rights. Resonances and Dissonances Perry Schmidt-Leukel Open Access Download PDF	41
Theravāda Buddhismand Human Rights. Perspectives from Thai Buddhism Martin Seeger Open Access Download PDF	63
The Purification of the Mind and the Encounter with Those who Suffer. A Christian View of Buddhismand Human Rights Kenneth Fleming Open Access Download PDF	93
Is Mahāyāna Buddhism a Humanism? Some Remarks on Buddhismin China Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer Open Access Download PDF	113
Buddhist Responses to State Control of Religion in China at the Century’s Turn Shi Zhiru Open Access Download PDF	125
Translations of Human Rights. Tibetan Contexts Jan-Ulrich Sobisch and Trine Brox Open Access Download PDF	159
Human Rights and Exile-Tibetan Politics Stephanie Römer Open Access Download PDF	179
Women’s Rights in the Vajrayāna Tradition Jampa Tsedroen and Carola Roloff Open Access Download PDF	195
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	211
Index Open Access Download PDF	233
Authors Open Access Download PDF	243

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Human Rights; Intercultural Studies; Cultural Clash; Burma; Thailand; China; Tibet; Human; Religion; Religious Studies; Sociology of Religion; Asia

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Published: September 25, 2015
ISBN: 9783839412633