TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hershock, Peter D.
AB  - The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things. Hershock applies Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence.              In eight chapters, the key arenas for public policy are addressed: the environment, health, media, trade and development, the interplay of politics and religion, international relations, terror and security, and education. Each chapter explains how a specific issue area has come to be shaped by complex interdependence and offers specific insights into directing the growing interdependence toward greater equity, sustainability, and freedom. Thereby, a sustained meditation on the meaning and means of realizing public good is put forward, which results in a solid Buddhist conception of diversity. Hershock argues that concepts of Karma and emptiness are relevant across the full spectrum of policy domains and that Buddhist concepts become increasingly forceful as concerns shift from the local to the global.         A remarkable book on this fascinating religion, Buddhism in the Public Sphere will be of interest to scholars and students in Buddhist studies and Asian religion in general.
DO  - 10.4324/9780203970126
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005836
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135845506
KW  - buddhist
KW  - perspective
KW  - attentive
KW  - mastery
KW  - teaching
KW  - moral
KW  - clarity
KW  - contributory
KW  - virtuosity
KW  - terms
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/822de9c0-c844-4dea-a48d-408c985e6d0d/1005836.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24295
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2006
SN  - 9780415770521;9780415544436;9781135986742;9781135986735;9781135986698
TI  - Buddhism in the Public Spherenull
ER  - 
