Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism

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Notes Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Yu-ing Ching, Master of Love and Mercy: Cheng Yen (Nevada City, Calif.: Blue Dolphin, 1995), pp. 81–82. 2. Ibid., pp. 65–66. 3. Cheng Yen, ‘‘Performing Good Deeds Is More Important Than Shunning Evil Ones,’’ Inspirational Extracts, May 1, 2001. http://www.tzuchi.org/global; accessed June 7, 2002. 4. Cheng Yen, quoted in Yu-ing Ching, p. 66. 5. Ibid. 6. Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, eds., Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996). 7. Donald K. Swearer, ‘‘Introduction,’’ in Me and Mine: Selected Essays of Bhikkhu Buddhad āsa (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), p. 2. 8. I would like to express my thanks to C. Julia Huang for sharing with me several articles on Tzu Chi in press at the time of writing. Interested readers are referred to her article, ‘‘The Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation of Taiwan,’’ in Christopher S. Queen, Charles Prebish , and Damien Keown, eds., Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism (London: RoutledgeCurzon), 2003. 9. Grant A. Olson, ‘‘Introduction,’’ in Phra Prayudh Payutto, Buddhadhamma: Natural Laws and Values for Life, trans. Grant A. Olson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), p. 9. 10. Bruce Evans, ‘‘Contributions of Venerable Prayudh to Buddhism and Society,’’ in Socially Engaged Buddhism for the New Millennium: Essays in Honor of the Ven. Phra Dhammapitaka (Bhikkhu P. A. Payutto) on His 60th Birthday Anniversary, ed. Sulak Sivaraksa (Bangkok : Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation and Foundation for Children, 1999), p. 9. 11. Ibid. Chapter 2: Building from Tradition 1. A. T. Ariyaratne, ‘‘Sarvodaya Shramadana’s Approach to Peacebuilding,’’ in Buddhist Peacework: Creating Cultures of Peace, ed. David W. Chappell (Boston: Wisdom Publications , 1999), p. 70. 252 • Notes to Pages 13–22 2. Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium (New York: Riverhead Books, 1999), pp. 41, 47. 3. Ibid., pp. 161–162. 4. Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace (Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1987), pp. 45–47. 5. Maha Ghosananda, Step by Step: Meditations on Wisdom and Compassion (Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1992), p. 27. The reference is to Dhammapada, vv. 3–5. 6. Dith Pran, in a private conversation at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia , in October 1995. Quotations are from notes made immediately after the conversation and are not precise. 7. Dalai Lama, Ethics, p. 202. 8. Sulak Sivaraksa, ‘‘Buddhism and Contemporary International Trends,’’ in Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence, ed. Kenneth Kraft (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992), p. 127. 9. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha’s Teaching on Voidness. (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1994), p. 17. 10. Ariyaratne, ‘‘The Non Violent Struggle for Economic and Social Justice.’’ Address to the Sixth International Conference of the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies, Tacoma, Washington, August 2000 (Ratmalana, Sri Lanka: Sarvodaya Vishva Lekha, 2000), p. 5. 11. See Joanna Macy, Dharma and Development: Religion as Resource in the Sarvodaya SelfHelp Movement, rev. ed. (West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 1985), p. 34. 12. On Ambedkar, see Christopher S. Queen, ‘‘Dr. Ambedkar and the Hermeneutics of Buddhist Liberation,’’ in Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia, ed. Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), esp. pp. 55–63. 13. Nhat Hanh, Being Peace, pp. 45–46. 14. Ghosananda, Step by Step, p. 64. 15. Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements (New York: Penguin, 1997), p. 135. 16. Ibid., p. 143. 17. Sulak, Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation (Bangkok: Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development and Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation, 1999), p. 71. 18. Ariyaratne, ‘‘The Non Violent Struggle,’’ pp. 4–5. 19. Nhat Hanh, Being Peace, p. 9. Notes to Pages 22–30 • 253 20. Sulak, ‘‘Buddhism and Human Rights in Siam,’’ in Socially Engaged Buddhism for the New Millennium: Essays in honor of the Ven. Phra Dhammapitaka (Bhikkhu P. A. Payutto) on His 60th Birthday Anniversary, ed. Sulak Sivaraksa (Bangkok: Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation and Foundation for Children, 1999), pp. 198–199. 21. Suu Kyi, p. 134. 22. Ibid., p. 8. 23. Ibid., p. 122. 24. Ibid., pp. 17–18. 25. Dalai Lama, Ethics, pp. 22–23. 26. Ibid., pp. 64–68. 27. Ibid., p. 77. 28. Venerable Shih Cheng-Yen, ‘‘A New Millennium of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth,’’ in Buddhist Peacework...