buddhist ethics

Buddhist ethical conduct including the Five Precepts (Pañcasikkhāpada), and Eightfold Ethical Conduct (Aṭṭhasīla).
Post Reply
kiwimark
Posts: 8
Joined: Mon May 23, 2011 4:59 pm

buddhist ethics

Post by kiwimark »

Am thinking of ordering a book on buddhist ethics. So l'm wondering which is the more insightful author.
Damien keown
Peter harvey
Hammalawa saddhatissa
Others?
Thanks. :anjali:
User avatar
bodom
Posts: 7215
Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:18 pm
Location: San Antonio, Texas

Re: buddhist ethics

Post by bodom »

kiwimark wrote:Am thinking of ordering a book on buddhist ethics. So l'm wondering which is the more insightful author.
Damien keown
Peter harvey
Hammalawa saddhatissa
Others?
Thanks. :anjali:
Having read Hammalawa Saddhatissa's Buddhist Ethics, yes, I highly recommend it.

:anjali:
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.

- BB
daverupa
Posts: 5980
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:58 pm

Re: buddhist ethics

Post by daverupa »

The Nature of Buddhist Ethics, by Damien Keown, is a fine read. He plays a tad fast and loose with the Theravada-Mahayana textual divide, but the point he makes about the pairing of Sila-Panna is worth reading over. I'd get it from a library, rather than buy it.

Peter Harvey is a good author elsewhere (The Selfless Mind), but I'm not certain of his ethical thought. I have one of his books in my to-read pile, I'll get back to you.
  • "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.

    "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.

- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]
User avatar
Kim OHara
Posts: 5584
Joined: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:47 am
Location: North Queensland, Australia

Re: buddhist ethics

Post by Kim OHara »

You might also like the Journal of Buddhist Ethics at http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/.
(This isn't where it used to be and doesn't look much like it used to look. Anyone know what's going on?)

:namaste:
Kim
User avatar
cooran
Posts: 8503
Joined: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:32 pm
Location: Queensland, Australia

Re: buddhist ethics

Post by cooran »

Hello Kim, all,

I searched on Google for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics: http://jbe.la.psu.edu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And one of the results said this:
1. 913 - CAN - Collections Australia Network - Collections
http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/col ... search.php?.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Records 9121 - 9130 of 64364 – ISSN: 1076-9005 http://scorpio.gold.ac.uk/jbe/jbe.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://jbe.la.psu.edu Link no longer valid as of May 23, ...

Huge website though and couldn’t find the bit above.

With metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
User avatar
Kim OHara
Posts: 5584
Joined: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:47 am
Location: North Queensland, Australia

Re: buddhist ethics

Post by Kim OHara »

Thanks, Cooran,
I did a bit more poking around on the net. Every link that doesn't end up in a dead end points to the site I found - http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/ which is hosted http://blogs.dickinson.edu/ by Dickinson College http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickinson_College, down the road from Penn State University which used to host the Journal.
This site - http://www.globethics.net/web/journal-o ... ist-ethics - says it has all of the JBE online but I haven't tried to register on it.

But I didn't find any explanation for the changes. :shrug:

:namaste:
Kim
Bankei
Posts: 430
Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:40 am

Re: buddhist ethics

Post by Bankei »

Try Charles Goodman
Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics, Oxford University Press 2009.

His homepage http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~cgoodman/research.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-----------------------
Bankei
Paññāsikhara
Posts: 980
Joined: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:27 am
Contact:

Re: buddhist ethics

Post by Paññāsikhara »

kiwimark wrote:Am thinking of ordering a book on buddhist ethics. So l'm wondering which is the more insightful author.
Damien keown
Peter harvey
Hammalawa saddhatissa
Others?
Thanks. :anjali:
They're all good.
1. --> more ethical theory.
2. --> buddhist responses to questions of ethics.
3. --> more traditional buddhist sila.

If you really want Buddhist ethics, I'd go for door number 2.

~~ Huifeng
My recently moved Blog, containing some of my writings on the Buddha Dhamma, as well as a number of translations from classical Buddhist texts and modern authors, liturgy, etc.: Huifeng's Prajnacara Blog.
Post Reply