The Religious Justification of Social Values and Personal Responsibility in Buddhism

FAIN: FT-10784-70

Luis Oscar Gomez, PhD
Mangalam Centers (Berkeley, CA 94704-1418)

Study of the religious foundation for ethics in Mahayana Buddhism--the possibility of social values and individual responsibility in a religion without God or soul; possible structures of morality in light of the problems of freedom and purpose in Buddhism. Fellow working on the hypothesis that a religious basis for a humanistic ethics.