ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 17, 2010 Moving Forward by Agreeing to Disagree: A Response to “Healing Ecology” Grace Y. Kao This paper was the subject of discussion at the American Academy of Religion national meeting in Atlanta, October 31, 2010 on “Nondualist Ecology: Perspectives on the Buddhist Environmentalism of David Loy.” Co-hosting were the Buddhist Critical-Constructive … Continue reading Response to David Loy
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 30, 2023 Lta sgom spyod gsum: A Tibetan Approach to Moral Phenomenological Praxis Colin H. Simonds Queen’s University at Kingston This article unpacks the Tibetan framework of lta sgom spyod gsum, or view, meditation, action, and relates it to the Buddhist ethical project of moral phenomenology. It first investigates how the framework … Continue reading A Tibetan Approach to Moral Phenomenological Praxis
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 28, 2021 Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology: A Defense and Development of the Theory Colin Simonds Queen’s University at Kingston This article defends and develops the categorization of Buddhist ethics as moral phenomenology. It first examines the use of the term in Western philosophical settings and compares it to how the term … Continue reading Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 28, 2021 Coronavirus and Ill-fated Crowns: Buddhist Lessons in Pandemics and Politics Alexander McKinley Loyola University Chicago Synthesizing three retellings of the story about the Buddha curing a plague in the ancient city of Vesāli, this article argues that lessons from the narrative can help us analyze the modern coronavirus pandemic and … Continue reading Buddhist Lessons in Pandemics and Politics
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 27, 2020 Can an Evil Person Attain Rebirth in the Pure Land? Ethical and Soteriological Issues in the Pure Land Thought of Peng Shaosheng (1740-1796) Hongyu Wu Ohio Northern University In Pure Land literature in China, it is not uncommon to find accounts about morally flawed or evil persons attaining rebirth in … Continue reading Can an Evil Person Attain Rebirth in the Pure Land?
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 26, 2019 Buddhist Responses to the Ecological Crisis: Recent Publications on Buddhism and Ecology Christopher Ives Stonehill College A review essay on four recent publications on Buddhism and environmental issues: Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis by David R. Loy; Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading … Continue reading Recent Publications on Buddhism and Ecology
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 It Wasn’t Us: Reply to Michael Brent Rick Repetti Kingsborough Community College City University of New York In “Confessions of a Deluded Westerner,” Michael Brent insists no contributions to Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will (Repetti) even address free will because none deploy the criteria for free will that Western (incompatibilist) … Continue reading It Wasn’t Us: Reply to Michael Brent
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 The Healing Paradox of Controlled Behavior: A Perspective from Mindfulness-Based Interventions Asaf Federman Sagol Center for Brain and Mind, Muda Institute, IDC Herzliya Oren Ergas Beit Berl College, Israel In this paper, we discuss the issue of free will as it may be informed by an analysis of originally Buddhism-based … Continue reading A Perspective on Free Will from Mindfulness-Based Interventions
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 23, 2016 “To Whom Does Kisā Gotamī Speak?” Grief, Impermanence, and Upāya Richard K. Payne Institute of Buddhist Studies, at the Graduate Theological Union This article develops a perspective on the nature of Buddhist pastoral care by considering the needs of the bereaved. Differentiating the interpretive frameworks of different audiences and understanding … Continue reading Grief, Impermanence, and Upāya
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 Ethical Implications of Upāya-Kauśalya: Helping Without Imposing Kin Cheung Temple University Upāya-kauśalya has been examined as a hermeneutical device, a Mahāyānic innovation, and a philosophy of practice. Although the paternalism of upāya-kauśalya employed in the Lotus Sūtra has been analyzed, there is little attention paid to bringing these ethical implications … Continue reading Ethical Implications of Upāya-Kauśalya
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 Becoming Bhikkhunī? Mae Chis and the Global Women’s Ordination Movement Lisa J. Battaglia Samford University Women’s full ordination as Buddhist nuns (Pāli: bhikkhunī, Sanskrit: bhikṣuṇī) has been a contested issue across Buddhist traditions and historical periods. Today, there is a global movement to secure women’s full participation in Buddhist monastic … Continue reading Thailand’s Mae Chis and the Global Women’s Ordination Movement
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 The Politics of “Compassion” of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: Between “Religion” and “Secularism” Masahide Tsujimura Kobe University Koyasan University Since 1959, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama has expressed the view that democratic reforms should be gradually carried out in the Tibetan political system. He did this by enlarging the connotation of … Continue reading The Politics of “Compassion” of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 20, 2013 Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other: On the Interdependence of Personal and Social Transformation David R. Loy The highest ideal of the Western tradition has been the concern to restructure our societies so that they are more socially just. The most important goal for Buddhism is to awaken … Continue reading Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 17, 2010 Healing Ecology David R. Loy This paper was the subject of discussion at the American Academy of Religion national meeting in Atlanta, October 31, 2010 on “Nondualist Ecology: Perspectives on the Buddhist Environmentalism of David Loy.” Co-hosting were the Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Group and the Comparative Religious Ethics Group. Read … Continue reading Healing Ecology
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 15, 2008 Deploying the Dharma: Reflections on the Methodology of Constructive Buddhist Ethics Christopher Ives Stonehill College Recent Buddhist ethical argumentation has been hampered by a set of methodological issues. The Buddhist soteriological scheme offers at least a partial solution to several of those issues, and more importantly, provides a framework for … Continue reading Methodology of Constructive Buddhist Ethics
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 14, 2007 The Ethics of Knowledge and Action in Postmodern Organizations Michael M.Tophoff Limmen, The Netherlands Good Corporate Governance was explicitly formulated in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which became federal law in 2002. It includes ethical guidelines to regulate employee behavior and the interrelations between organizations and their shareholders. While these guidelines are … Continue reading Ethics in Postmodern Organizations
SSN 1076-9005 Volume 13, 2006 Aquinas and Dōgen on Poverty and the Religious Life Douglas K. Mikkelson University of Hawaii at Hilo Recent efforts to articulate Buddhist ethics have increasingly focused on “Western” ethical systems that possess a “family resemblance” sufficient to serve as a bridge. One promising avenue is the employment of Aristotelian-Thomistic thinking … Continue reading Aquinas and Dōgen on Poverty and the Religious Life
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 12, 2005 Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals: A New Analysis of puñña and kusala, in Light of sukka Martin Adam University of Victoria This paper offers a new basis for assessing the nature of Buddhist moral thinking. Although consistent with Damien Keown’s view that Buddhist ethics may be considered a … Continue reading Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 12, 2005 Filial Piety in Early Buddhism Guang Xing University of Hong Kong Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it … Continue reading Filial Piety in Early Buddhism
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 12, 2005 The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory. By David R. Loy. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003. 228 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0861713664. Reviewed by Dan Arnold Read article
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 11, 2004 Zen War Stories. By Brian Daizen Victoria. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Pp. 268+xviii. Paperback. ISBN: 0700715800. Reviewed by David Loy Read article
ISSN 1076–9005 Volume 7, 2000 How to Reform a Serial Killer: The Buddhist Approach to Restorative Justice David R. Loy Bunkyo University This article considers how Buddhist perspectives on crime and punishment support the contemporary movement toward restorative (in place of retributive) justice. It begins by examining the two Pāli suttas that most directly address … Continue reading Buddhist Approach to Restorative Justice
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998 Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism. By David Loy. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1996, 248 pages, ASIN 0391038605, US $49.95. Reviewed by Michael F. Stoeber Read article
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998 Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity. Edited by David Loy. American Academy of Religion, Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion, no. 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998, 120 pages, ISBN: 0-7885-0122-4, US $23.95. On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture. By Robert Magliola. American Academy of Religion, Cultural … Continue reading Review: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity
General Editor Victor Forte Albright College Associate Editor James Mark Shields Bucknell University Technical Editor Daniel Cozort Dickinson College Assistant Editor Ananda Reed Assistant Editor Rick Repetti Assistant Editor Dion Peoples Area Editors Erik Hammerstrom Pacific Lutheran University China and East Asia Matthew Walton University of Toronto Theravada/South … Continue reading Journal Editors and Editorial Board
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 17, 2010 Buddhism, Brain Death, and Organ Transplantation Damien Keown Goldsmiths College, University of London This article raises concerns about the degree to which potential donors are aware that their layman’s understanding of death may not be the same as that enshrined in protocols employing the criterion of brain death. There would … Continue reading Buddhism, Brain Death, and Organ Transplantation