Cultivating Compassion

Going beyond crises

Juewei Shi, Stephen Hill, Suzanne Franzway

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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
22 November 2023

Buddhist life & practice; Social impact of disasters; Financial crises & disasters

The massive disruptions caused by climate change, the Covid-19 Pandemic, war, and ever-rising inequalities have presented the world with challenges across social and economic life, health and education, policy, politics, and community life. Compassion is a central Buddhist value and practice but is also essential to our survival. Defined as feeling genuine concern about the suffering of others and, critically, coupled with a commitment to attempt to alleviate or prevent it. The desire and commitment to help are what differentiates compassion from similar emotions like empathy and sympathy. Compassion demands the courage to turn toward suffering with clarity and skilful means.　 Hence, we have the Buddhist recognition that compassion is inseparable from wisdom, in the analogy of the two wings. This book is titled, Cultivating Compassion: Going Beyond Crises as it is rooted in this perspective while presenting different approaches which aim to advance our understanding of the questions and dilemmas posed by the current global crises and the cultivation of compassion.　

Edited by: Juewei Shi, Stephen Hill, Suzanne Franzway
Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 492g
ISBN: 9781803741932
ISBN 10: 1803741937
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 22 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: A Humanistic Buddhist Response to Crises through MettāVerses – From Self to Our Shared Humanity – Compassion and Kindness as Tools for Transformation – A Humanistic Buddhist Approach to the Contemporary Climate Crisis – Buddhist- Informed Humanistic Responses to Gender- Based Violence – Social Connection in the Attention Economy: Cultivating Compassion on Commercial Social Media – Compassion, Belief and Macrocompassion – For the benefit of all … : Towards Reading the Dharma for Practices of Diversity and Celebration – Compassion and Beyond: How Can Buddhism Help Address Contemporary Crises? – Bodhisattvas in Action: Turning Crises into Sacred Leadership – Resisting Genocide through D’harawal Relatedness: Understanding the Appin Massacre and the Story of How Wiritijiribin the Lyrebird Came to Be – Teaching with Heart: Reflections on Compassionate Pedagogy in Higher Education – The Role of Humanistic Buddhism in Improving the Response of Modern Medicine to Contemporary Challenges – Transcending Cultures East and West: Ethnographic Research Methodology as a Path of Compassion – Hopeful Monsters: Can Art Build Empathy? A Sculptural Exploration of Social- Emotional Macroevolution – Walking the Paths of Compassion Amidst Conflict – Abundance from Dukkha: The Pandemic from a Third- World Perspective.

"Venerable Juewei Shi has been an ordained monastic and a Buddhist Studies scholar for over twenty years. Juewei is Head of Program for Applied Buddhist Studies and Humanistic Buddhism, as well as Director of the Humanistic Buddhism Centre at the Nan Tien Institute, Australia. Her recent publications include ""Connecting with the human condition from the inside out and outside in: a dialogue between a social anthropologist and a Buddhist theologian"" (2022). Suzanne Franzway is an Emeritus Professor at UniSA. Her books include Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women’s Citizenship (2018), Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering (2013), Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor (2011), and Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and in Private (2001). Stephen Hill is Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong. Prior to retirement, Stephen was United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific, and in parallel, Principal Director and Ambassador of the UN organization, UNESCO. Prior to joining UNESCO in 1995, Stephen was Director of the Australian Research Council's National Centre of Excellence for Research Policy, at UOW, following seventeen years as Foundation Professor of Sociology."