RT Article
T1 Engaged Buddhism as human rights ethos: the constructivist quest for cosmopolitanism
JF Human rights review
VO 21
IS 1
SP 1
OP 20
A1 Brysk, Alison 1960-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1690958545
AB As the fundamental authority of universal rights claims are contested in a declining liberal international order, constructivists seek to transcend the limits of the Western, rationalist rights ethos and explore humanistic spiritual alternatives. This essay will evaluate the promise of a leading non-Western cosmopolitan ethos: engaged Buddhism. Buddhism offers a vision of universal compassion and moral responsibility that has shaped influential global advocacy efforts, with the potential to address a significant sector of the world community. But the Buddhist ethos has functioned as both a source of and a challenge to state power and nationalist identity in an era of globalization. Through examining a range of contemporary movements of engaged Buddhism in Tibet, Burma, Thailand, and Taiwan, we will see how this form of religious cosmopolitanism can play a role in constructing a rights ethos—if and when it maintains critical autonomy and Buddhist spiritual detachment from worldly power.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 18-20
K1 Human Rights
K1 Engaged Buddhism
K1 Cosmopolitanism
K1 Tibet
K1 Burma
K1 Thailand
K1 Taiwan
DO 10.1007/s12142-019-00575-9