Buddhist Ethics (Robert Wright & Bhikkhu Bodhi)

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🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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What is the foundation of Buddhist ethics? ... Experiencing not-self ... Buddhism is a synthesis of consequentialism and virtue ethics ... The origins of Buddhism's concern for animal welfare ... Does the Buddha want you to be vegetarian? ... Why isn’t there more anti-militarist activism among Buddhists? ... Trying to comply with the Buddhist ideal of "right speech" ... Mental defilements and their eradication ... Does Buddhism’s emphasis on equanimity discourage activism? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.9	Hi, Bonte.
0:10.5	Hi, Bob.
0:11.4	How you doing?
0:12.4	All right.
0:13.8	Okay.
0:15.2	Let me introduce this.
0:16.3	I'm Robert Wright.
0:17.0	This is the right show available in both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:21.6	You are Bikku Bodhi, very very well known Buddhist monk and also scholar of Buddhism. In particular,
0:28.2	you have translated, I guess, the greater part, the great bulk of what's called the
0:33.6	polycanon into English from poly. The poly Poly canon is by many people's reckoning,
0:40.5	the earliest stratum of written Buddhist texts, I guess.
0:46.1	And is it fair to say that you've translated the majority of that into English?
0:51.7	No, not by a long shot.
0:53.1	Really?
0:53.7	Yeah.
0:54.0	What I've translated myself, really, is the Sangyuta Nikaya, that's the connected discourses.
1:01.6	Right.
1:01.9	And the Angoutra Nikaya, the numerical discourses.
1:06.3	The Majima Nikaya was originally translated by the British monk of Bikunyanamoli, and he left, he died suddenly without having had the chance to polish his translation or to have it prepared for publication.
1:22.6	And it was just left as handwritten manuscripts in his cottage at Island Hermitage.
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