Home > Books & Publications > Books by Subject > Books on Engaged Buddhism & Buddhism in the West >

Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia
By: Queen, Christopher S. and King, Sallie B., Ed.

Engaged Buddhism
 
Our Price: $38.95
Author: Queen, Christopher S. and King, Sallie B., Ed.
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0791428443 / 9780791428443
Publication Date: 1996


Product Code: 11476
Qty:

Description About the author Contents
 
This is the first comprehensive study of socially and politically engaged Buddhism in the lands of its origin. Nine accounts of contemporary movements in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan are framed by interpretive essays. The historical development and institutional forms of engaged Buddhism are considered in the light of traditional Buddhist conceptions of morality, interdependence, and liberation; and Western ideas of freedom, human rights, and democracy.
Engaged Buddhism presents ordained and lay Buddhist activists like Thich Nhat Hanh of Vietnam, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu and Sulak Sivaraksa of Thailand, A. T. Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya Shramadana movement of Sri Lanka, Daisaku Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai movement of Japan, followers of the Indian Untouchable leader, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, and Buddhist women throughout Asia. These leaders have campaigned relentlessly, attracted and organized millions of new converts, faced death threats, landed in jail, founded schools and universities, and produced a massive new Buddhist literature to restore social and economic justice to their societies.

Engaged Buddhism, Edited by Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, SUNY Press, Paperback, $38.95

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item:

Books & Publications > Books by Subject > Books on Engaged Buddhism & Buddhism in the West
Books & Publications > Books by Publisher > Suny Press
Books & Publications > Books by Title A-Z
Books & Publications > Books by Subject
Books & Publications > Books by Publisher
Books & Publications