{"id":419,"date":"2010-04-08T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/07\/appropriate-means-as-an-ethical-doctrine-in-the-lotus-suutra\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T23:43:10","slug":"appropriate-means-as-an-ethical-doctrine-in-the-lotus-suutra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/08\/appropriate-means-as-an-ethical-doctrine-in-the-lotus-suutra\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriate Means as an Ethical Doctrine in the Lotus S\u016btra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN:1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 5 1998<\/h6>\n<h3>Appropriate Means as an Ethical Doctrine in the Lotus S\u016btra<\/h3>\n<p>Gene Reeves<br \/>\nRikkyo University<\/p>\n<p>In this paper I claim that <em>up\u0101ya <\/em>or <em>h\u014dben <\/em>in the Lotus S\u016btra, contrary to how it has often been translated and understood, is an ethical doctrine, the central tenet of which is that one should not do what is expedient but rather what is good, the good being what will actually help someone else, which is also known as bodhisattva practice. Further, the doctrine of <em>h\u014dben <\/em>is relativistic. No doctrine, teaching, set of words, mode of practice, etc. can claim absoluteness or finality, as all occur within and are relative to some concrete situation. But some things, doing the right thing in the right situation, can be efficacious, sufficient for salvation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/reeve981.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN:1076-9005 Volume 5 1998 Appropriate Means as an Ethical Doctrine in the Lotus S\u016btra Gene Reeves Rikkyo University In this paper I claim that up\u0101ya or h\u014dben in the Lotus S\u016btra, contrary to how it has often been translated and understood, is an ethical doctrine, the central tenet of which is that one should not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/08\/appropriate-means-as-an-ethical-doctrine-in-the-lotus-suutra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appropriate Means as an Ethical Doctrine in the Lotus S\u016btra<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2405],"tags":[2601,2794,2795],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-05-1998","tag-lotus-sutra","tag-skilful-means","tag-upaya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-6L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}