Buddhist Peacework: Creating Cultures of Peace

Herausgeber: Chappell, David W. / Mitwirkender: Straus, Virginia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eighteen essays explore the newest Buddhist social developments with first-person descriptions from eminent Buddhist leaders such as the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Maha Ghosananda, A.T. Ariyaratne, Daisaku Ikeda, Shih Cheng-yen, Sulak Sivaraksa, and Robert Aitken.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wisdom Publications
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780861711673
• ISBN-10: 086171167X
• Artikelnr.: 21179725

Autorenporträt

David W. Chappell was a scholar of Chinese Buddhism and graduate chair of the Department of Religion at the University of Hawaii. He inititiated a series of Buddhist-Christian conferences in 1980 and was founding editor of the academic journal Buddhist-Christian Studies from 1980-95. He became the founding director of the Buddhist Studies Program at the University of Hawaii in 1987. In 1988, Professor Chappell was a cofounder of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, and served as its President from 1993-95. He died in 2004. Joan Halifax, PhD, is a Buddhist teacher and an anthropologist. Her books include Simplicity in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America and Being with Dying. She is the founder of the Upaya Institute in Santa Fe NM, where she now practices, teaches, and works. She is a Founding Teacher in the Zen Peacemaker Order of Roshi Bernie Glassman and the late Sensei Jishu Holmes and is a Soto priest and teacher.