JBE Announcement

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JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS
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GENERAL EDITORS
Damien Keown and Charles S. Prebish

TECHNICAL EDITOR
Wayne Husted

EDITORIAL BOARD
Masao Abe, George Bond, David Chappell, Lance Cousins, Richard
Gombrich, Charles Hallisey, Ian Harris, Peter Harvey, Richard
Hayes, Christopher Ives, Leslie Kawamura, Winston King,
Reginald Ray, Lambert Schmithausen, Robert Thurman, Paul
Williams.

The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is pleased to announce the
publication of:

"Cutting the Roots of Virtue:" Tsongkhapa on the Results of
Anger by Daniel Cozort

Vol. 2 (1995) pp. 83-104.

FTP Info:
Directory: pub/jbe/vol2
Filename:  cozort.txt

Publication date: 17 July 1995.

Abstract:

     Anger is the most powerful of the //kle"sas// that not only
"plant seeds" for suffering but also "cut the roots of virtue" for
periods of up to a thousand aeons per instance. This article
examines and assesses the exegesis by Tsongkhapa, founder of the
Tibetan Gelukba order, of Indian sources on the topic of anger. It
argues that despite Tsongkhapa's many careful qualifications he may
not be successful in avoiding the conclusion that if the suutras
are to be accepted literally, there almost certainly will be
persons for whom liberation from sa.msaara is precluded.


[Note: this article is also available in HTML and (experimentally)
the cross-platform Adobe Acrobat format from the journal's WWW
sites].

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     The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is pleased to welcome
     Lambert Schmithausen as the newest member of its
     Editorial Board. Professor Schmithausen teaches in the
     Institut fur Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets at
     the Universitat Hamburg. In recent years he has gained
     much prominence for his two monographs: _The Problem of
     the Sentience of Plants in Earliest Buddhism_ (Tokyo: The
     International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1991) and
     _Buddhism and Nature_ (Tokyo: The International Institute
     for Buddhist Studies, 1991).


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