Abstract
This chapter explores the “trajectories” in Buddhist ethics attentive to the complex interaction of the large-scale processes and mindful of the emergence of ethical creoles in varied contexts. Buddhists have both been caught in and embraced the global processes of colonialism, modernity, and globalization. It is only in the colonial period that Buddhists became capable of distinguishing themselves from other humans using the categories of culture and religion. The inflections of modernity in contemporary Buddhist ethics are partially obscured by the legacy of colonialism. One important trajectory of modern Buddhist thought stemming from colonialism is deeply defensive. One of the biggest changes in contemporary Buddhist ethics is the shift to new sites for the production of moral and ethical discourse. The moral realism of traditional Buddhist metaethics as the real backing for a contemporary ethics yields an acceptance of situational ethics in the area of normative ethics.
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