A the Teaching of the Dalai Lama Chávez-Segura, Alejandro. creator text Electronic books. xx Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (300 p.) 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. 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. Bstan-Ê1/4dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- Teachings Buddhism and international relations Religion Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho 1935- Teachings Buddhism and international relations RELIGION / Buddhism / General BQ4570.I58 294.3 294.3/3727 294.33727 Chávez-Segura, Alejandro Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2011 9780773411104 (electronic bk.) 0773411100 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=932484 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=458714 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=932484 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=458714 EBLCP 120611 20200709055536.0 ocn795120349 eng