{"product_id":"9780861713660","title":"Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory","description":"The most essential insight that Buddhism offers is that all our individual suffering arises from three and only three sources, known in Buddhism as the three poisons: greed, ill-will, and delusion. In \u003ci\u003eThe Great Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e, scholar and Zen teacher David Loy examines how these three poisons, embodied in society's institutions, lie at the root of all social maladies as well. The teachings of Buddhism present a way that the individual can counteract these to alleviate personal suffering, and in the \u003ci\u003eThe Great Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e Loy boldly examines how these teachings can be applied to institutions and even whole cultures for the alleviation of suffering on a collective level.\u003cp\u003eThis book will help both Buddhists and non-Buddhists to realize the social importance of Buddhist teachings, while providing a theoretical framework for socially engaged members of society to apply their spiritual principles to collective social issues. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Buddhism can help our postmodern world develop liberative possibilities otherwise obscured by the anti-religious bias of so much contemporary social theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wisdom Publications MA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032881578224,"sku":"9780861713660","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780861713660_p0.jpg?v=1763828343","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780861713660","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}