The Oxford Handbook Of Buddhist Ethics

705 Pages·2018·37.258 MB·English

by  Daniel Cozort, James Mark Shields

The Oxford Handbook of
B U D D H I S T
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The Oxford Handbook of
BUDDHIST
ETHICS
Edited by
DANIEL COZORT
and
JAMES MARK SHIELDS
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From Daniel Cozort
For Clara and Bethany, who bring light and happiness to me and everyone they know.
From James Mark Shields
For my sister, Marie, an early inspiration towards global citizenry.

Contents
List of Abbreviations  xi
List of Contributors  xiii
Introduction  1
Daniel Cozort and James Mark Shields
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1. Karma  7
Peter Harvey
2. The Bodhisattva Precepts  29
Paul Groner
3. Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom  51
Justin S. Whitaker and Douglass Smith
PART II ETHICS AND BUDDHIST TRADITIONS
4. Moral Development in the Jātakas, Avadānas, and Pāli Nikāyas  77
Martin T. Adam
5. The Vinaya  96
Charles S. Prebish
6. Bhikṣuṇī Ordination  116
Bhikkhu Anālayo
7. The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints,
and Social Workers  135
Barbra Clayton
8. Madhyamaka Ethics  162
Bronwyn Finnigan
viii Contents
9. Ethics in Pure Land Schools  184
Michael Conway
10. A Perspective on Ethics in the Lotus Sūtra  205
Gene Reeves
11. Ethics in Zen  221
Christopher Ives
12. Tantric Ethics  246
Gareth Sparham
13. Buddhist Ethics in South and Southeast Asia  260
Juliana Essen
14. East Asian Buddhist Ethics  279
Richard Madsen
15. Buddhist Ethics in Contemporary Tibet  293
Holly Gayley
PART III COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
16. Buddhist Ethics Compared to Western Ethics  317
Sīlavādin Meynard Vasen
17. The Psychology of Moral Judgment and Perception in Indo-T ibetan
Buddhist Ethics  335
Emily McRae
18. Ethics without Norms? Buddhist Reductionism and the Logical
Space of Reasons  359
Dan Arnold
PART IV BUDDHISM AND SOCIETY
19. The Buddhist Just Society  385
Peter Harvey
20. Buddhist Economics: Problems and Possibilities  407
James Mark Shields
Contents ix
21. Buddhist Environmental Ethics: An Emergent
and Contextual Approach  432
Stephanie Kaza
22. Buddhism, War, and Violence  453
Michael Jerryson
23. The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in Asia  479
Sallie B. King
24. The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in the West  501
Christopher Queen
PART V CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
25. Human Rights  531
Damien Keown
26. Buddhism and Women  552
Alice Collett
27. Buddhism and Sexuality  567
Amy Paris Langenberg
28. Buddhist Perspectives on Abortion and Reproduction  592
Michael G. Barnhart
29. Euthanasia  611
Damien Keown
30. Being and Its Other: Suicide in Buddhist Ethics  630
Martin Kovan
31. Buddhism and Animal Rights  650
Paul Waldau
Index  675