Buddhist Values and Actions Towards Peacd and Environment Protection. A Sociological Perspective
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Buddhist Values Towards Peace Environment Protection
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Abstract
Peace and Environmental Protection are two key issues and central avenues of
Buddhist global social and political action contributing to a better future world.
This paper looks into the social values and actions of Buddhist people of some Asian
countries regarding war-peace and environmental protection issues. I try to place the analysis
within the Buddhist cosmovision (meanings and practices) regarding the self (or no-self)
and especially regarding the other beings (interconnection, dependent origination). Buddhist
orientations and practices such as Loving Kindness of the Four Immeasurable are also part
of such cosmovision. I use loving-kindness (love and orientation towards others) as a larger
cultural and social identity frame acting as an umbrella under which views and practices towards
peace and environment emerge.
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Díaz, J. A. R. (2018). Buddhist Values and Actions Towards Peacd and Environment Protection. A Sociological Perspective. The Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU), 11(3), 486–505. Retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Jiabu/article/view/219855
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Persistence of Traditional Values, American Sociological Review, Vol. 65, No. 1,
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Cluster Analysis (1 ed.). New York: John Wiley.
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series on Quantitative Application in the Social Sciences. Beverly Hills and
London: Sage Publications.
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and Society 26:305-356.
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www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/
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Identities” in IABU, Teaching Dhamma in New Lands: Academic Papers
presented at the 2nd IABU, Ayutthaya, Thailand (Bangkok, Thailand:
Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, 2012).
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Analysis of Buddhist People Social Values and Attitudes” in M.V.Dr. Thich Nhat
Tu and M.V.Dr. Thich Duc Then (editors), Buddhism for Sustainable
Development and Social Change. Ho Chi Minh: Religion Press. Vietnam
Buddhist Universities Series 21, 2014.
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Classics, 2002.
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