Socially Engaged Buddhism

Famous quotes containing the words socially, engaged and/or buddhism:

    There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
    Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)

    The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-child relationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.
    Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

    A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)