Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity

Theravada and Tibetan Perspectives

Douglas Duckworth, Elizabeth J Harris, Abraham Velez de Cea (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2020
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-904-8 (ISBN)

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This volume discusses contemporary Buddhist responses to religious diversity from Theravadin and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives. Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces, as Buddhists, and traditions Buddhists have encountered, continue to change (after all, all conditioned things are impermanent). The present time is a particularly dynamic moment to take stock of Buddhist attitudes toward religious others, as Buddhist identities are being renegotiated in unprecedented ways in our increasingly globalized age. Is it true that Buddhists are tolerant of other religions? To what extent are Buddhists tolerant? Is nirvana held to be attainable through Buddhism alone? If so, through which Buddhist tradition? This volume approaches these questions and others from perspectives representing Theravadin and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism. The chapters herein bring together a spectrum of views that are not often found side-by-side in a single volume or in a meaningful dialogue with each other, needless to mention with other religions. This volume seeks to remedy this situation, and break new ground to enable further dialogue, understanding, and constructive encounters across Buddhist traditions and between other religious traditions and Buddhists.

Douglas Duckworth is Associate Professor at Temple University and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Religion. Abraham Velez de Cea is professor of Buddhism and World Religions at Eastern Kentucky University. Elizabeth Harris is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham.

Introduction
Douglas Duckworth, Abraham Vélez de Cea and Elizabeth J. Harris

Section One: Buddhist Paths: One or Many?
1. The Buddha and the Diversity of Spiritual Paths
Bhikkhu Bodhi, Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel, New York
2. Was the Buddha an Exclusivist?
Abraham Vélez de Cea
3. Paths of Liberation? Theravāda Buddhist Approaches to Religious Diversity
Perry Schimidt-Leukel, University of Münster
4. Openness towards the Religious Other in Buddhism
Carola Roloff, University of Hamburg

Section Two: Buddhist Identity Politics
5. Buddhism and the Religious Other: Twenty-First Century Dambulla and the Presence of Buddhist Exclusivism in Sri Lanka
Elizabeth J. Harris
6. The Contemporary Tibetan Buddhism Rimé Response to Religious Diversity
Rachel Pang, Davidson College
7. How Nonsectarian is ‘Nonsectarian’?: Jorge Ferrer’s Pluralist Alternative to Tibetan Buddhist Inclusivism
Douglas Duckworth
8. Buddhism and Beyond: The Question of Pluralism
Douglas Duckworth

Section Three: Constructive Dialogue with Other Religions
9. The Dalai Lama and Religious Diversity
Abraham Vélez de Cea
10. Thoughts on Why, How and What Buddhists Can Learn from Christian Theologians
John Makransky, Boston College
11. Suffering and its Relief: A Buddhist Approach to Religious Pluralism
Christopher Ives, Stonehill College
12. Religious Diversity and Dialogue: A Buddhist Perspective
Asanga Tilakaratne, Independent Scholar
13. Finding the Right Questions about Religious Diversity: What Buddhists Could Contribute to Discussions of Religious Diversity
Rita Gross, University of Wisconsin

Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	889 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-78179-904-0 / 1781799040
ISBN-13	978-1-78179-904-8 / 9781781799048
Zustand	Neuware