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Author:   Tu Weiming ,  Daisaku Ikeda
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781848855922

ISBN 10:   1848855923
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   10 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Starting Point for Peace Chapter Two: Life-changing Encounters with Mentors Chapter Three: Learning and the Youth Chapter Four: Leaning as a Way of Life Chapter Five: Dialogue of Civilizations Chapter Six: Dialogues for Change Chapter Seven: The Social Role of Religion Chapter Eight: Buddhism and Confucianism for a Better World Chapter Nine: A Century of Great Harmony Chapter Ten: Globalization of Peace Culture Chapter Eleven: Confucian Humanism and Buddhist Humanism Chapter Twelve: Analects and a Dialogical Community Chapter Thirteen: New Horizons in Humanism Chapter Fourteen: The Unity of Heaven and Humanity vs. the Oneness of the Self and the Universe Chapter Fifteen: Buddhist and Confucian Wisdom-A Full Flowering of Humanity Chapter Sixteen: Sino-American Relations Chapter Seventeen: Toward a Dialogical Civilization Glossary Bibliography Index

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Tu Weiming (1940-) has been a professor of Chinese history and philosophy and of Confucian studies at Harvard University since 1981. He is the former Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute (1996-2008) and a distinguished research scholar at the Asia Center, Harvard University. Currently he is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University. Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) is President of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist network that actively promotes peace, culture and education whose members come from over 190 countries throughout the world. He is the author of more than 100 books on Buddhist themes, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983. The world's academic community has awarded him more than 300 academic degrees.

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