Destroying Mara forever : Buddhist ethics essays in honor of Damien Keown /

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Imprint:Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, c2009.
Description:xxvi, 293 p. : ill., photographs ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8009992
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Other authors / contributors:Keown, Damien, 1951-
Powers, John, 1957-
Prebish, Charles S.
ISBN:9781559393416 (alk. paper)
1559393416 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxvi) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John Powers and Charles S. Prebish
  • Śāntideva, virtue, and consequentialism / Barbra R. Clayton
  • Scholar monks and meditator monks revisited / L.S. Cousins
  • Buddhist perspectives on crime and punishment / Peter Harvey
  • You're only as good as you look: Indian Buddhist associations of virtue and physical appearance / John Powers
  • Mahāyāna ethics and American Buddhism: subtle solutions or creative perversions? / Charles S. Prebish
  • Is Buddhist ethics virtue ethics? Toward a dialogue with Śāntideva and a footnote to Keown / Paul Williams
  • Buddhism, war and peace in Sri Lanka / George D. Bond
  • Ethics in an era of reflexive modernization: a Buddhist response / Peter D. Hershock
  • In search of a green dharma: philosophical issues in Buddhist environmental ethics / Christopher Ives
  • Elements of engaged Buddhist ethical theory / Sallie B. King
  • Suffering made sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and modern therapeutic approaches to suffering's silver lining / Daniel Cozort
  • Something rotten in the state of Buddhaland: good governance in Theravāda Buddhism / Ian Harris
  • Foundations of ethics and practice in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism / Charles B. Jones
  • Thai Buddhism in the twenty-first century: contesting views / Donald K. Swearer.