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Shared foundations of Buddhist ethics: sources of guidance to Buddhists | |
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Rebirth and karma | |
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The four noble truths | |
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Philosophy of action | |
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Key Buddhist values | |
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Giving | |
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Keeping the lay precepts | |
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Monastic values | |
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Ethics of inter-personal relationships | |
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Loving kindness and compassion | |
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Social ethics | |
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Mahayana emphases and adaptations: the path of the Bodhisattva | |
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The ethics of the Bodhisattva | |
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Skilful means and overriding precepts | |
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Specific strands of Mahayana thought and practice | |
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Mahayana reassessment of monasticism | |
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Attitude to and treatment of the natural world | |
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Humanity's place in nature | |
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Non-harming of animals | |
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Positive regard, and help, for animals | |
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Plants, trees and forests | |
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Conservation and environmentalism | |
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Economic ethics | |
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Lay economic ethics | |
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The monastic economy | |
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Buddhism and capitalism: Weber's 'Protestant Ethic' thesis | |
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'Buddhist economics' | |
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Buddhism and economics in the modern world | |
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War and peace | |
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Buddhist analyses of the causes of conflict | |
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Solutions to conflict | |
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Non-violent reflections on a violent world | |
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The position of the soldier | |
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Buddhist 'justifications' of and involvement in, violence | |
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Buddhist action for peace in the modern world | |
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Suicide and euthanasia | |
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Considerations and arguments against suicide | |
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Suicide and the precepts | |
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Euthanasia | |
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Abortion and contraception | |
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Embryonic life | |
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Abortion and Buddhist principles | |
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Contraception | |
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Abortion in Buddhist cultures | |
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Anti-abortion but pro-choice?: the relationship between morality and law | |
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The status of women: women in early Hinduism | |
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The effect of Buddhism | |
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The spiritual potential and achievement of women | |
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Gender, rebirth and the status of women | |
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Views on spiritual statuses unattainable by women | |
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Images of wise and wayward women | |
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Ascetic wariness of the opposite sex | |
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The ordination of women | |
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Nuns and other female religious roles in Buddhist cultures | |
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Lay women in Buddhist texts | |
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Lay women in Buddhist cultures | |
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Homosexuality and other forms of 'Queerness' | |
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Sex change | |
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Hermaphrodites | |
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Pandakas | |
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Homosexual acts | |
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Homosexuality in Buddhist cultures | |