Compassion in the Lotus Sutra and Benevolent Love in the Analects: A Reflection from the Confucian Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinzhong Yao ◽  
Qun Dong
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Lotus Sutra ◽  
Moral World ◽  
Moral System ◽  
The Analects ◽  
Confucian Moral

This article is intended to examine and then compare ci bei (‘compassion’) in the Lotus S?tra and ren (‘benevolent love’) in the Analects of Confucius. Despite many similarities, compassion and benevolent love have shown a difference between Mah?y?na Buddhist ethics and the Confucian moral system. This difference is revealed in the content and meaning of compassion and benevolent love, but more importantly through the ways they are practised, followed and expanded. Through different ways or paths, compassion and benevolent love have nevertheless established two different and yet mutually supplementary ideals that guide the spiritual and moral world of China and other parts of East Asia.

Ethics in Zen

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ives
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Core Components

Ethics in Zen feature core components of broader Buddhist ethics: precepts, monastic codes, compassion, skill in means, and the bodhisattva ideal. Zen approaches to practice and awakening as well as such influences as Confucianism have coloured how Zen thinkers in East Asia have interpreted and practised these components. As a result, such constructs as the Five Precepts play a role in traditional Zen that differs from how they have functioned in other strands of Buddhism. Recently, in response to war, gender discrimination, and environmental degradation, Zen thinkers have been reinterpreting such constructs, often in ways that diverge from traditional Zen.

scholarly journals Exploration and Implementation of the Construction of School Moral Education System Based on the Inheritance of Confucian Classics

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (S1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Weimin Qian
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Moral System ◽  
Moral Quality ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Confucian Moral

In the implementation of school moral education, as the lack of a well-developed system, the efficiency of moral education is relatively low which leads to the imperfect of the various functions. There is a pressing need to construct a moral system to guide and support the school moral education. By the chance of promotion “Confucius Cultural Theme School”, our school integrated and systemized the existing moral education and then combined the Confucian moral education idea to formulate an education system for our school, which is the “young gentleman system”. In the process of implementation, we promote moral education by theme activities and strengthen the students’ upright moral quality and behavior through the practical activities, so as to accomplish the goal to foster a modest and self-disciplined gentleman.

The Bodhisattva Precepts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Groner
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Current State ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

This chapter has two major goals. The first is to introduce some of the major sets of bodhisattva precepts and to discuss their significance in both India and East Asia while paying attention to some of the areas that our current state of knowledge does not allow us to understand. Besides the contents of the precepts, bodhisattva ordinations and the expiation of wrongdoing are considered. The second part of the chapter, with particular emphasis on the Tendai school of Japan, focuses on how the bodhisattva precepts led to a more nuanced understanding of Buddhist ethics by focusing on such issues as killing and compassion.

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