The Path of compassion : writing on socially engaged Buddhism /

The Path of compassion : writing on socially engaged Buddhism / edited by Fred Eppsteiner. - Rev. 2nd ed. - Berkeley, Calif. : Parallax Press, c1988. - xx, 219 p. ; 23 cm.

"A Buddhist Peace Fellowship book."

Includes bibliographies.

Engaged Buddhism: an introduction / Invocation: a Cambodian prayer / Hope for the future / Buddhism in a world of change / Nurturing compassion / Path of compassion / Please call me by my true names / Individual, society, and nature / To enter the marketplace / Buddhism and social action: an exploration / Buddhism and the possibilities of a planetary culture / Gandhi, Dogen and deep ecology / Power of peace / Thoughts on the Jatakas / Social teachings of the Buddha / Edicts of Asoka / Nagarjuna's guidelines for Buddhist social activism / Three lessons from Shaku Soen / In the crucible: the order of interbeing / Days and months / In Indra's net: Sarvodaya & our mutual efforts for peace / Joanna Macy -- Interactivity: sitting for peace & standing for Parliament / Rape / Dhamma at the precinct level / Taking heart: exercises for social activists / Kenneth Kraft -- Maha Ghosananda -- Tenzin Gyatso, the XIVth Dalai Lama -- Sulak Sivaraksa -- Christina Feldman -- Jack Kornfield -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- Nelson Foster -- Ken Jones -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Aitken -- Chagdud Tulku -- Rafe Martin -- Walpola Rahula -- Robert A.F. Thurman -- Robert A.F. Thurman -- Robert Aitken -- Fred Eppsteiner -- Cao Ngoc Phuong -- Christopher Titmuss -- Judith Ragir -- Charlene Spretnak -- Joanna Macy.

0938077023 (pbk.) : $14.00 9780938077022 (pbk.)

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Buddhism--Social aspects.
Compassion--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Boeddhisme.
Sociale ethiek.

BQ4570.S6 / P37 1988

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