Clifford Geertz on Religion: GREAT QUOTE
"what a given religion is-its specific content-is embodied in the images and metaphors its adherents use to characterize reality."Clifford Geertz, Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and...
View ArticleBuddhism and Ecology - Dr. Brook Ziporyn
(from the video page):A leading scholar in Tiantai (Tendai) Buddhism will clarify the true nature of reality in relation to environmental concerns and the relevance of Buddhist practice for...
View ArticleBuddhist Morality and the Two Standpoints
Buddhism presents us with a particular orientation in the world. Another word for this broad sense of orientation in the world is cosmology. It seems that what unites Buddhist throughout history and...
View ArticleBuddhist India by TW Rhys Davids
Some light reading from the 19th century for when time permits:Buddhist India
View ArticleHow to Teach Buddhist Ethics
The good news is that I've been invited to sunny southern California to teach Buddhist ethics (/philosophy?) to 50 college students over 5 days this month. The tough thing now is determining just how...
View ArticleDhammapada 183
The morality found in all the precepts can be summarized in three simple principles:'To avoid evil; to do good, to purify the mind.' This is the advice given by all the Buddhas. --(Dhammapada, 183)In...
View ArticleBases of Buddhist Ethics
Hiri: SN 1.18- PTS: S i 7-CDB i 96 Hiri Sutta: Conscience translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu© 1998–2010 Who in the worldis a man constrained by conscience,who awakens to censurelike a fine...
View ArticleNotes on Buddhist Ethics, Day one
Day one is about introductions and orientation. The students will have read much of Walpola Rahula's excellent book, "What the Buddha Taught." So they won't be in the dark about Buddhist concepts, but...
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Buddhist Ethics - Context
First we must see the context in which Buddhism arose. I like using a comparison between the times of the Buddha and our own age as a way to engage the students, so that they think about contemporary...
View ArticleKant and Religion Review
Today the following review appeared in the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online:Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason, Werner S. Pluhar (tr.), Stephen R. Palmquist (intro.),...
View ArticleSources of Buddhist Ethics
The following are thoughts on Buddhist ethics... brainstorming roughly... based on the first sections of Peter Harvey's book, "An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics."To begin, worldview finds a central...
View ArticleDestroying Mara Forever 1
I've completed the first chapter, "Śāntideva, Virtue, and Consequentialism" by the great Śāntideva and Buddhist ethics scholar, Barbara Clayton.The chapter argues for a version of "character...
View ArticlePeter Harvey in - Destroying Mara Forever
coming soon... (sounds like a cheesy horror movie, I know)
View ArticleDhamma as indispensible
The following from Bhikkhu Bodhi appears to present an argument against Aristotelianism or reducing or getting rid of cosmology/metaphysics:The importance of this directly visible side of Dhamma...
View ArticleDhammapada: life is hard
244-245(accesstoinsight) Life's easy to live for someone unscrupulous, cunning as a crow, corrupt, back-biting, forward, & brash; but for someone who's constantly scrupulous, cautious, observant,...
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A Comparative Study of Early Buddhism and Kantian Philosophy - reviewed
Originally posted at American Buddhist Perspective here and here.A comparative study of early Buddhism and Kantian philosophy by S.G.M. WeerasingheThis is essentially the topic of my doctoral thesis,...
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Enlightened View, from Charles Goodman
I'm working my way through Charles Goodman's excellent Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics, and finding gem after gem of clarity and wisdom.That might be...
View Article[INDOLOGY] Summer courses in Oxford
A wonderful opportunity for those in/around England this summer. I would definitely attend if I could. Next year...The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies and the Society for the WiderUnderstanding of...
View ArticleKant and the right to Lie
Kant's ethics surrounding truth and lies is quite complex, even though it is often taught with the simplistic example: if a murderer comes to your house and asks you where his desired victim is; and...
View ArticleStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Buddhism Entries
VasubandhuJonathan C. GoldGorampa [go rams pa]Constance KassorŚāntarakṣitaJames BlumenthalMadhyamakaRichard HayesEthics in Indian and Tibetan BuddhismCharles GoodmanTibetan Epistemology and Philosophy...
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