Just Awakening

Auteur
Jessica X. Zu is assistant professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California, Dornsife.

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Just Awakening uncovers a forgotten philosophy of social democracy inspired by Yogācāra--an ancient, nondualistic Buddhist philosophy--arguing that it offers new vocabularies with which to reconceptualize equality and freedom.

Contenu
Preface
Introduction: Changing Referents
Part I: When Dharma Meets Darwin

1. Lü Cheng and the Birth of Yogcra Social Philosophy
2. Karma, Evolutionism, and Buddhist Social Consciousness
3. Karma, Science, and a Just Society
   Part II. Liberation Buddhology
4. Buddhability as Humanity
5. Bodhisattva of Democracy
6. Scholarship for Salvation
   Not a Coda: Bending the Arc Together
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index