{"id":4067,"date":"2015-08-31T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2015-09-10T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:24:00","slug":"ethical-implications-of-upaya-kausalya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2015\/08\/31\/ethical-implications-of-upaya-kausalya\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Implications of Up\u0101ya-Kau\u015balya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 22, 2015<\/h6>\n<h3>Ethical Implications of <em>Up\u0101ya-Kau\u015balya<\/em>: Helping Without Imposing<\/h3>\n<p>Kin Cheung<br \/>\nTemple University<\/p>\n<p><em>Up\u0101ya-kau\u015balya<\/em> has been examined as a hermeneutical device, a Mah\u0101y\u0101nic innovation, and a philosophy of practice. Although the paternalism of <em>up\u0101ya-kau\u015balya<\/em> employed in the <em>Lotus S\u016btra<\/em> has been analyzed, there is little attention paid to bringing these ethical implications into a practical context. There is a tension between the motivation, even obligation, to help, and the potential dangers of projecting or imposing one\u2019s conception of what is best for others or how best to help. I examine this issue through various parables. I argue that ordinary people can use <em>up\u0101ya-kau\u015balya<\/em> and that the ethical implications of <em>up\u0101ya-kau\u015balya<\/em> involve closing two different gaps in knowledge. This has potential applications not just for individuals, but also for organizations like NPOs or NGOs that try to assist large communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2015\/08\/JBE-Cheung_final4.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 Ethical Implications of Up\u0101ya-Kau\u015balya: Helping Without Imposing Kin Cheung Temple University Up\u0101ya-kau\u015balya has been examined as a hermeneutical device, a Mah\u0101y\u0101nic innovation, and a philosophy of practice. Although the paternalism of up\u0101ya-kau\u015balya employed in the Lotus S\u016btra has been analyzed, there is little attention paid to bringing these ethical implications &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2015\/08\/31\/ethical-implications-of-upaya-kausalya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethical Implications of Up\u0101ya-Kau\u015balya<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99217],"tags":[2702,2588,2601,2594,99233],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-22-2015","tag-engaged-buddhism","tag-human-rights","tag-lotus-sutra","tag-mahayana","tag-upaya-kausalya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-13B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","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=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}