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Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory
By: Loy, David R.

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Author: Loy, David R.
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0861713664 / 9780861713660

Product Code: 12142

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The economic, social and ecological crises of modern times calls for a perspective that can incorporate Buddhist insights and principles such as generosity, loving kindness and wisdom. In "The Great Awakening" Buddhist teachings and Western social analysis meet and form a dynamic Buddhist social theory.

"In this daring work, David Loy applies his theory of a Buddhist psychology of 'lack' -- the human experience of incompleteness and craving -- to a dazzling array of social problems in the world today including economic injustice and political tyranny, war and terrorism after 9/11, and the destruction of our natural environment. In so doing, he exemplifies the rise of socially engaged Buddhism and this new vehicle of spiritual practice." ---- PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER S. QUEEN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, EDITOR OF Engaged Buddhism in the West

The Great Awakening, David R. Loy, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 228 pages, $16.95

Acknowledgments		ix
1.	Buddhist Social Theory?	1
2.	Buddhism and Poverty	53
3.	Pave the Planet or Wear Shoes?	73
4.	Can Corporations Become Enlightened?	91
5.	The Nonduality of Good and Evil: Buddhist Reflections on the New Holy War	103
6.	How to Reform a Serial Killer	121
7.	Zen and the Art of War	143
8.	Remaking Ourselves: On the Duality between Nature and Technology	157
9.	Loving the World As Our Own Body: The Nondualist Ethics of Taoism, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology	171
Afterword: A Nondual Social Theory		195
Notes		199
Bibliography		207
Index		213

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