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Questions in the Making: A Review Essay on Zen and Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Buddhist and Comparative Ethics[Note 1. I am indebted to Sumner B. Twiss and Phillip ...]
Author(s) -
Unno Mark T.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/0384-9694.00030
Subject(s) - buddhism , context (archaeology) , articulation (sociology) , scholarship , sociology , philosophy , religious studies , environmental ethics , epistemology , law , history , theology , political science , archaeology , politics
In reviewing four works from the 1990s—monographs by Christopher Ives and Phillip Olson on Zen Buddhist ethics, Damien Keown's treatment of Indian Buddhist ethics, and an edited collection on Buddhism and human rights—this article examines recent scholarship on Zen Buddhist ethics in light of issues of Buddhist and comparative ethics. Its highlights selected themes in the notional and real encounter of Zen Buddhism with Western thought and culture as presented in the reviewed works and identifies issues and problems for further consideration, in particular, problems of comparative and cross‐cultural understanding and the articulation and redefinition of Zen Buddhist tradition.