{"title":"Author - Premasiri, P.D.","description":"P.D. PREMASIRI, B.A. hons. Sri Lanka; B.A. Hons. Cantab; M.A. Cantab; Ph.D. Hawaii, first graduated with a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Pāli at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Later he graduated from the University of Cambridge majoring in Western philosophy. He did his Ph.D. in comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii. Presently he is the Professor and Head of the Department of Pāli and Buddhist Studies, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He has contributed a number of articles on Buddhism to the Encyclopedia of Buddhism published by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka. 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D. Premasiri (MP3 audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 148 by P. D. Premasiri, \u003cem\u003eBuddhism in a Value-changing Society\u003c\/em\u003e narrated by Jayashree Tata Nagaraj.  The print edition can be found in the Pariyatti Edition of \u003ca href=\"\/collected-bodhi-leaves-vol-5\"\u003eCollected Bodhi Leaves Vol. 5\u003c\/a\u003e. The \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=bl148\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eeBook of Bodhi Leaves No. 148\u003c\/a\u003e can be downloaded from the BPS website.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValues can be approached from two different standpoints. Most social scientists prefer to take the standpoint that may be called sociological relativism in dealing with questions of value in relation to different societies. The social scientist s approach does not involve any absolute standard for judging the goodness or badness of the norms upheld by a particular society. The application of such an approach to examine the existing values of a traditional Buddhist society involves merely a description of the social behaviour of its people and a causal explanation of such behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The subject under investigation in the present discussion is the question of the relationship between Buddhism and changing values. Where doesBuddhism stand in a value-changing world? Here, we have admitted in some sense that we are living in a world in which values are changing. In this connection it may be questioned whether values themselves are changing or whether it is only our beliefs about values that are changing. Imade the point that our beliefs about facts do change. 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