Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Different Cultures and the Universality of Human Rights 21
6. Buddhismand the Idea of Human Rights. Resonances and Dissonances 41
7. Theravāda Buddhismand Human Rights. Perspectives from Thai Buddhism 63
8. The Purification of the Mind and the Encounter with Those who Suffer. A Christian View of Buddhismand Human Rights 93
9. Is Mahāyāna Buddhism a Humanism? Some Remarks on Buddhismin China 113
10. Buddhist Responses to State Control of Religion in China at the Century’s Turn 125
11. Translations of Human Rights. Tibetan Contexts 159
12. Human Rights and Exile-Tibetan Politics 179
13. Women’s Rights in the Vajrayāna Tradition 195
14. Bibliography 211
15. Index 233
16. Authors 243