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Session : Buddhist Practice, Statecraft, and Contemporary Issues
Reading:
Peter Hershock, “Governance Cultures and Countercultures: Religion, Politics, and the Public Good,” Chap. 5 in Facing the World and Going Crosswise: Buddhism and the Realization of Public Good
Peter Hershock is Coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program. He has earned degrees from Yale University (B.A., Philosophy) and the University of Hawai`i (Ph.D., Asian and Comparative Philosophy). His primary scholarly interests lie in investigating the philosophical implications of Buddhist practice, especially the Chan tradition, and on making use of Buddhist conceptual resources to address contemporary issues. In addition to publishing in such academic journals as Philosophy East and West and the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, he is the author of: Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Chan Buddhism; Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age; an edited volume Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennnium; and Chan Buddhism. He is presently working on a book of Buddhist essays on the realization of public good.
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