Anglický jazyk

Buddhist Answers to Current Issues

Vydavateľstvo: AuthorHouse
Rok vydania: 2005
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781420816426

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O knihe

BUDDHIST ANSWERS TO CURRENT ISSUES:
An internationally reputed Buddhist scholar and activist - Vice-President and Liaison Officer to UN and UNESCO of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB); Patron, European Buddhist Union; President, World Buddhist University Council; Honorary Consultative Editor, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism: Professor of Buddhist Studies, Dean of Academic Affairs and Director, International Academy of Buddhism (IAB), University of the West, California, USA; Editor, Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism; Member, UNESCO International Interreligious Council; Former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, France, U.S.A., Spain, Algeria and Mexico; Former Senior Special Advisor to the Director General of UNESCO; and Author of 49 books on Buddhism, history and education - explores in eight chapters Buddhist answers to such issues as -
Can Buddhism be the dogma-free humanistic spirituality, which the humankind searches to replace organized religion?
How can Buddhism help in socialization and development of social awareness and responsibility of children and youth?
What is the Buddhist bioethical response to abortion, euthanasia, suicide, asexual procreation, cloning, genetic engineering, eugenics, euphenics and the like?