https://sah.hcommons.org/members/amodlele/activity/ Activity feed for Amod Lele. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:07:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bbbea71e9a130e74891ee7508fcffe6e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879022/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:30:49 -0500 0 9d286cc5b11f638a8be4d56c486c2f62 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670567/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:25:40 -0500 Contemporary engaged Buddhist scholars typically claim either that Buddhism always endorsed social activism, or that its non-endorsement of such activism represented an unwitting lack of progress. This article examines several classical South Asian Buddhist texts that explicitly reject social and political activism. These texts argue for this…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6ccc0d0125ee22081c68eccfacd84a0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670566/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:25:35 -0500 Contemporary engaged Buddhist scholars typically claim either that Buddhism always endorsed social activism, or that its non-endorsement of such activism represented an unwitting lack of progress. This article examines several classical South Asian Buddhist texts that explicitly reject social and political activism. These texts argue for this…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f36c2b8de717a69dda638d2ecb26fe8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670565/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:25:34 -0500 Contemporary engaged Buddhist scholars typically claim either that Buddhism always endorsed social activism, or that its non-endorsement of such activism represented an unwitting lack of progress. This article examines several classical South Asian Buddhist texts that explicitly reject social and political activism. These texts argue for this…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ea5b1390bc19f656d93680680ca1bed https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670564/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:25:33 -0500 Contemporary engaged Buddhist scholars typically claim either that Buddhism always endorsed social activism, or that its non-endorsement of such activism represented an unwitting lack of progress. This article examines several classical South Asian Buddhist texts that explicitly reject social and political activism. These texts argue for this…[Read more]

]]> 0 67052fe31ebf085e7bdba54cc73167b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670506/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:53:44 -0500 Contemporary engaged Buddhist scholars typically claim either that Buddhism always endorsed social activism, or that its non-endorsement of such activism represented an unwitting lack of progress. This article examines several classical South Asian Buddhist texts that explicitly reject social and political activism. These texts argue for this…[Read more]

]]> 0 41749bda0581c8690c14c935a8416fb7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609088/ Thu, 24 May 2018 04:13:36 -0400 This thesis compares the recent rise and decline of two political uses of cultural tradition, one in India and one in Singapore. In India, the thesis examines the Hindutva (Hindu-ness) movement, which became influential in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which leads India’s current coalition government, arose from the Hindutva m…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e0fcc5ae6c5094f064fecc0fdc42b0e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609087/ Thu, 24 May 2018 04:13:34 -0400 This dissertation examines the idea of ethical revaluation — taking things we normally see as good for our flourishing and seeing them as neutral or bad, and vice versa — in the Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva. It shows how Śāntideva’s thought on the matter is more coherent than it might otherwise appear, first by examining the consistency…[Read more]

]]> 0 593210c4fc17d5dfc195cd7d3ee6e318 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609086/ Thu, 24 May 2018 04:13:32 -0400 This dissertation examines the idea of ethical revaluation — taking things we normally see as good for our flourishing and seeing them as neutral or bad, and vice versa — in the Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva. It shows how Śāntideva’s thought on the matter is more coherent than it might otherwise appear, first by examining the consistency…[Read more]

]]> 0 593210c4fc17d5dfc195cd7d3ee6e318 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609085/ Thu, 24 May 2018 04:13:32 -0400 This dissertation examines the idea of ethical revaluation — taking things we normally see as good for our flourishing and seeing them as neutral or bad, and vice versa — in the Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva. It shows how Śāntideva’s thought on the matter is more coherent than it might otherwise appear, first by examining the consistency…[Read more]

]]> 0 52c26ea92b0ff1646d7afed8b84bed46 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609084/ Thu, 24 May 2018 04:13:31 -0400 This dissertation examines the idea of ethical revaluation — taking things we normally see as good for our flourishing and seeing them as neutral or bad, and vice versa — in the Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva. It shows how Śāntideva’s thought on the matter is more coherent than it might otherwise appear, first by examining the consistency…[Read more]

]]> 0 98cdb0ebc247eb506cf1210ee4009045 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609083/ Thu, 24 May 2018 04:13:29 -0400 Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory insists that valid knowledge must be derived from paradigms: sets of injunctions and social practices that lead to replicable experiences. Wilber claims that the theory still includes the essentials of premodern traditions, because the essentials of those traditions consist of a phenomenological core of practices l…[Read more]

]]> 0 98cdb0ebc247eb506cf1210ee4009045 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609082/ Thu, 24 May 2018 04:13:29 -0400 Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory insists that valid knowledge must be derived from paradigms: sets of injunctions and social practices that lead to replicable experiences. Wilber claims that the theory still includes the essentials of premodern traditions, because the essentials of those traditions consist of a phenomenological core of practices l…[Read more]

]]> 0 7924a6a16713c6195faae02fb63acbb1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608648/ Thu, 17 May 2018 20:52:09 -0400 This thesis compares the recent rise and decline of two political uses of cultural tradition, one in India and one in Singapore. In India, the thesis examines the Hindutva (Hindu-ness) movement, which became influential in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which leads India’s current coalition government, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d928e4df8874e6e732920689b0ef5ed6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608647/ Thu, 17 May 2018 20:40:34 -0400 This dissertation examines the idea of ethical revaluation — taking things we normally see as good for our flourishing and seeing them as neutral or bad, and vice versa — in the Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva. It shows how Śāntideva’s thought on the matter is more coherent than it might otherwise appear, first by examining the consistency…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5e0dfdb12678536245048da33a1b647 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608644/ Thu, 17 May 2018 20:23:33 -0400 Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory insists that valid knowledge must be derived from paradigms: sets of injunctions and social practices that lead to replicable experiences. Wilber claims that the theory still includes the essentials of premodern traditions, because the essentials of those traditions consist of a phenomenological core of practices l…[Read more]

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