{"id":1172,"date":"2010-04-27T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2010-05-27T18:56:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:56:21","slug":"whats-compassion-got-to-do-with-it-determinants-of-zen-social-ethics-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/whats-compassion-got-to-do-with-it-determinants-of-zen-social-ethics-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Social Ethics in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
ISSN 1076-9005
\nVolume 12, 2005<\/h6>\n

What’s Compassion Got to Do with It? Determinants of Zen Social Ethics in Japan<\/h3>\n

Christopher Ives
\nStonehill College<\/p>\n

Judging from pronouncements by contemporary Engaged Buddhists, one might conclude that historical expressions of Zen social ethics have rested on the foundation of compassion and the precepts. The de facto<\/em> systems of social ethics in Japanese Zen, however, have been shaped largely by other epistemological, sociological, and historical factors, and compassion should best be understood as a “theological virtue” that historically has gained specificity from those other factors.<\/p>\n

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ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 12, 2005 What’s Compassion Got to Do with It? Determinants of Zen Social Ethics in Japan Christopher Ives Stonehill College Judging from pronouncements by contemporary Engaged Buddhists, one might conclude that historical expressions of Zen social ethics have rested on the foundation of compassion and the precepts. The de facto systems of … Continue reading Zen Social Ethics in Japan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2386],"tags":[2693,2702,2654,2668,2596],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-12-2005","tag-compassion","tag-engaged-buddhism","tag-epistemology","tag-japanese-buddhism","tag-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-iU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}