Cultivating Compassion

Venerable Juewei Shi has been an ordained monastic and a Buddhist Studies scholar for over twenty years. Juewei is Head of Program for Applied Buddhist Studies and Humanistic Buddhism, as well as Director of the Humanistic Buddhism Centre at the Nan Tien Institute, Australia. Her recent publications include "Connecting with the human condition from the inside out and outside in: a dialogue between a social anthropologist and a Buddhist theologian" (2022). Suzanne Franzway is an Emeritus Professor at UniSA. Her books include Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women’s Citizenship (2018), Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering (2013), Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor (2011), and Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and in Private (2001). Stephen Hill is Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong. Prior to retirement, Stephen was United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia and the Pacific, and in parallel, Principal Director and Ambassador of the UN organization, UNESCO. Prior to joining UNESCO in 1995, Stephen was Director of the Australian Research Council's National Centre of Excellence for Research Policy, at UOW, following seventeen years as Foundation Professor of Sociology.

Contents: A Humanistic Buddhist Response to Crises through MettāVerses – From Self to Our Shared Humanity – Compassion and Kindness as Tools for Transformation – A Humanistic Buddhist Approach to the Contemporary Climate Crisis – Buddhist- Informed Humanistic Responses to Gender- Based Violence – Social Connection in the Attention Economy: Cultivating Compassion on Commercial Social Media – Compassion, Belief and Macrocompassion – For the benefit of all … : Towards Reading the Dharma for Practices of Diversity and Celebration – Compassion and Beyond: How Can Buddhism Help Address Contemporary Crises? – Bodhisattvas in Action: Turning Crises into Sacred Leadership – Resisting Genocide through D’harawal Relatedness: Understanding the Appin Massacre and the Story of How Wiritijiribin the Lyrebird Came to Be – Teaching with Heart: Reflections on Compassionate Pedagogy in Higher Education – The Role of Humanistic Buddhism in Improving the Response of Modern Medicine to Contemporary Challenges – Transcending Cultures East and West: Ethnographic Research Methodology as a Path of Compassion – Hopeful Monsters: Can Art Build Empathy? A Sculptural Exploration of Social- Emotional Macroevolution – Walking the Paths of Compassion Amidst Conflict – Abundance from Dukkha: The Pandemic from a Third- World Perspective.