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CULTURE OF PEACE

Edited by  BAIDYANATH SARASWATI

1999, xvii+262pp. ISBN 81-246-0124-0,  Rs. 600(HB)
 

CONTENTS

PART-I  SHARING THE EXPERIENCE OF BEAUTY AND PEACE
  1. The Cosmos and Humanity as a Healing Family (Minoru Kasai)
  2. The True Meaning of Peace from the Chinese Literary Perspective (Tan Chung)
  3. Buddhist Art, The Mission of Harmonious Culture (Jin Weinuo)
  4. Satyam, Sivam, Sundaram (Natalia Kravtchenko & Vladimir Zaitsev)
  5. Creative Hence a Peaceful Society (Devi Prasad)
  6. Peace as Theatrical Experience (Bharat Gupt)

PART-II   EXAMINING THE EMPERICAL REALITY OF BEAUTY AND PEACE

  1. A Dehumanized Environment  (Keshav Malik)

  2. Modernity and Individual Responsibility (M M Agrawal)

  3. The Illusion of Seeking Peace (S C Malik)

  4. Man in his becoming : A change of perspective (Mira Aster Patel)

PART-III   WORKING TOWARDS THE RESTORATION OF PEACE

  1. Vipassana and the Art of Peaceful Living ( S N Goenka)

  2. Buddhist Doctrine and the culture of peace (Pataraporn Sirikanchana)

  3. Buddhism as a Contribution to peace in Vietnam (Cao Xuan Pho)

  4. Buddhism and Peace: A Personal view (Sirima K. Goonesinghe)

  5. The Sufi Paradigm of Peace-making (Mohammad Reza Rikhtehgaran)

  6. The Contribution of Indian Sufis to Peace and Amity (K A Nizami)

  7. The Call of the Forest (Som Raj Gupta)

  8. The Culture of Peace: Experiment and Expectation (Biswanarayan Shastri)

  9. Creativity, Pax Mundi and Gandhi (Ramjee Singh)

  10. The Culture of Peace versus Materialism and Consumerism (N. Radhakrishnan)

PART-IV   FORMING THE NETWORK OF ACTORS IN PEACE

  1. Experiencing Peace while engaging in experiments based on moral principles (A T Ariyaratne)

  2. Working together for Peace: The Asian perspective (M Aram)

  3. Public opinion and the movement for Peace (Ali Aksad)

  4. An Odyssey of Peace (Angelo Fernandes)

  5. Bahai principles of Education and World Peace (Dwight W. Allen)

  6. The United national and permanent Peace in the 21st century (A K Merchant)

  7. An international network of Peace (M. Ishaq Jamkhanawala)

  8. Self-Organizing centres and networks of Peace (Baidyanath Saraswati)

List of Contributors

 

Is peace a dream? A Utopian abstraction in a dehumanized, fragmented world, stockpiling all-devastating war machines? And can we possibly uphold the culture of peace amidst the growing cult of violence and blind consumerism, or in a climate of distrust, acrimony and intolerance? Embodying the presentations of an Asian Conference: 25-29 November 1996 in New Delhi on "The Culture of Peace: the Experiences and the Experiments", this volume addresses these and other kindred questions, with a rare insightfulness.

Cutting across narrow compartmentalizations of disciplines, some of the best minds from Asian countries here share, with wider audiences, their concern for peace, situating their sensuous/intellectual/spiritual experiences in a culture of peace. Also identifying specificities in terms of peace-threatening issues, situations, geographical zones, the volume attempts to show how education, individual responsibility, philosophy, ethics, artistic creativity, collective spirituality, Gandhian non-violence, Sufis universal love, and the Buddhist message of compassion and equnimity can reinforce the culture of peace even in the face of despair.

 

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First published in India, 1999

Copyright:  Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

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