Buddhist Challenges to the Contemporary Ethical Discourse of Violence versus Nonviolence: Reflection on the Articles

Stephen Jenkins

doi:10.1558/bsrv.43212

Authors

Stephen Jenkins Humboldt State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.43212

Keywords:

violence, ahimsa, Michael Jerryson, Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, Aśoka, defamation, Rohingya, Dalai Lama, Sakya Paṇḍita, Köten

Abstract

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Author Biography

Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University

Stephen L. Jenkins, professor emeritus of religious studies at Humboldt State University, researches Buddhist concepts of compassion, their philosophical grounding, and ethical implications. His many publications on Buddhism and violence include “Once the Buddha Was a Warrior,” in The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict, “Making Merit through Warfare According to the Ārya-Bodhisattva-gocara-upāyaviṣaya-vikurvaṇa-nirdeśa Sūtra,” in Buddhist Warfare, and “On the Auspiciousness of Compassionate Violence” in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

References

Jenkins, Stephen. forthcoming. "Buddhism: Confronting the Harmful with Compassion." In Nonviolence in World Religions, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer. New York: Routledge.

---. forthcoming. "Compassion and Human Flourishing: The Basis of Social and Individual Wealth, Health, Happiness, Power and Security in Indian Buddhist Thought." In Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All, edited by Sallie B. King. New York: Routledge.

---. 2017. "Once the Buddha Was a Warrior: Buddhist Pragmatism in the Ethics of Peace and Armed Conflict." In The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict, edited by Florian Demont-Biaggi, 159-178. New York: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57123-2_9 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57123-2_9

---. 2016. "Debate, Magic, and Massacre: The High Stakes and Ethical Dynamics of Battling Slanderers of the Dharma in Indian Buddhist Narrative and Ethical Theory." Journal of Religion and Violence 4(2): 129-157. https://doi.org/10.5840/jrv201691326 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/jrv201691326

---. 2010 (2011). "On the Auspiciousness of Compassionate Violence." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 33(1-2): 299-331.

---. 2002. "Black Ships, Blavatsky, and the Pizza Effect: Critical Self Consciousness as a Thematic Foundation for Courses in Buddhist Studies." In Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web, edited by Victor Hori, 71-83. London: RoutledgeCurzon.