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'New Horizons in Eastern Humanism: Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace' explores Buddhist and Confucian studies in the context of the persisting challenges facing China, Japan, and the United States. China now attracts global attention in direct proportion to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for millennia, the philosophy which has shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism. And one of the most striking phenomena relating to China's ascendancy on the world stage is a burgeoning interest, throughout Asia and beyond, in the humanistic culture and values that underlie Chinese politics and finance: particularly the thought of Confucius passed on in the Analects. In this stimulating conversation, two leading thinkers from the Confucian and Buddhist traditions discuss the timely relevance of a rejuvenated Confucian ethics to some of the most urgent issues in the modern world: Sino/Japanese/US relations; the transformation of society through education and dialogue; and the role of world religions in promoting human flourishing. Exploring correspondences between the Confucian and Buddhist wo

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Author

Weiming, Tu (editor);Ikeda, Daisaku (editor)

Publisher

I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780755625635

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Buddhism, Philosophy, Religion