Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I THE BUDDHIST THEOLOGICAL APPROACH: A SOCIALLY ENGAGED METHOD; Justification and Aims of the Buddhist Theological Approach; Understanding Religion; Understanding the Sacred; Buddhist Ethics; Engaged Buddhism; Individual Awakening for Social Awakening; Developing the 'Interbeing' Awareness; II INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: CONSTRUCTING OUR RELATIVE REALITY; International Relations: A Historical Perspective; Constructing International Relations and Its Theories: Reflections of Relative Truth.

Janus-Faced Perception of Religion in International RelationsIIITHE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA: COMMON HUMANITY AND UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY; Historical Background; Under the Arms of Avalokiteshvara: A Theological Framework; Tenzin Gyatso, the Rise of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama; Wisdom and Compassion: the Way of the Bodhisattva in Modern World; IVBUILDING BRIDGES OF JUSTICE: ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU AND GOD'S DREAM IN SOUTH AFRICA; Politics of Hatred: Church and State's Acts of Apartheid; Desmond Tutu: The Great Liberation Trek; The Divine Intention: The Transfiguration of Suffering into Liberation.

V THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF A THEOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSRe-thinking the Role of Religion in International Relations: Constructing Peace in Times of War; Defining A Theology of International Relations; TBA Aims; The Four Truths of the TBA; Basic Assumptions of the TBA; The Two Cycles of Reality; Analyzing Religion in International Relations: A Theological Method; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

This monograph examines the theological paradigms within Buddhism, a religion that interacts with the world without narratives of genesis and eschatology. This book argues that there is a need to study and understand this interdependent relation between the religious and the secular political world.

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