Ways of Knowing

WOK S02E04 Compassion in Practice: Buddhism & Law


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In this episode, Wall Scholar Hoi Kong invites Jinpa Thupten and Jessica Main to explore the actual and potential adaptions of Buddhist practices and concepts for training in professional disciplines, including medicine and law. They also discuss how Buddhist communities adopt institutional structures and address concerns that would be familiar to legal scholars. Finally, they consider how the concept of justice—a central preoccupation of law—might be shaped by the idea of compassion—a central idea in Buddhism.
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Ways of KnowingBy Peter Wall Institute