Zen and the Art of Religious Prejudice Efforts to Reform a Tradition of Social Discrimination
Zen and the Art of Religious Prejudice Efforts to Reform a Tradition of Social Discrimination
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禅宗与宗教偏见艺术改革社会歧视传统的努力
DOI：
10.1177/0011392105048291
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发表时间：
1996
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0.4
通讯作者：
W. Bodiford
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作者：
W. Bodiford
自所谓的町田事件以来，索托禅宗学校已经卷入了关于传统制度做法的争议，这些做法助长了偏见态度和社会歧视。为了回应部落民解放联盟的公开谴责，索托学校成立了一个人权司，负责消除歧视性做法和改革索托的公众形象。在索托，歧视性语言、墓地、死后姓名、护身符和仪式做法的证据已经公布，并采取步骤消除这些现象。这是索托学者，包括“批判佛教”（在日本以外引起广泛关注）的倡导者，试图否定他们认为助长社会歧视的佛教教义（如“原始觉醒”）的更大背景。在这种情况下继续对话的重要性表现在正确理解日本部落民问题的方式上。在第三次世界宗教与和平会议上，一位来自[日本]的代表完全否认存在对部落民的歧视[即，然而，随着对这一问题的不断研究，出席第四次世界宗教会议的同一位代表坦率地承认，[他]属于歧视行为者的阵营。
Since the so-called Machida affair, the Soto Zen school has become embroiled in controversies over traditional institutional practices that foster prejudicial attitudes and social discrimination. In response to public denunciations by the Buraku Liberation League, the Soto school founded a Human Rights Division charged with eliminating discriminatory practices and reforming Soto’s public image. Evidence of discriminatory language, necrologies, posthumous names, talismans, and ritual practices within Soto has been publicized and steps taken to eliminate them. This is the larger context within which Soto scholars, including advocates of “Critical Buddhism” (which has attracted wide attention outside of Japan) have sought to repudiate Buddhist teachings (such as “original awakening”) that they identify as fostering social discrimination. The signi≥cance of continuing dialogue in this context was demonstrated in the manner in which the Buraku people’s problem in Japan came to be rightly understood. In WCRP III a delegate from [Japan] completely denied the existence of discrimination against the Buraku people [i.e., outcastes], but with continuing study of the problem, the same delegate at WCRP IV frankly admitted the fact of [his] being in the camp of discriminating agents.