Sentence examples for altruistic principle from inspiring English sources

In Tsongkhapa's mature philosophy the Mahāyāna altruistic principle (bodhicitta) is the sole criterion for distinguishing authentic Mahāyāna views and practices from non-Mahāyāna ones.

Tsongkhapa argues that if a monk at the bodhisattva stage of development eats meat it clashes with the dictates of the altruistic principle (bodhicitta).

His most influential writing reconciles the philosophy of emptiness (Sk. śūnyatā) with the imperative of praxis embodied in a universal altruistic principle (Sk. bodhicitta).

Tsongkhapa's explanation of the bodhisattva moral code presented in the Bodhisattva-bhūmi (Tatz 1987) follows naturally from the importance he gives to the altruistic principle (bodhicitta) in his other writing.

In his philosophical works Tsongkhapa uses it to mean a universal, altruistic principle (not unlike the logos) that explains, primarily, the genesis of the Buddha's diverse statements, i.e., explains why a person with perfect intellect and powers of expression would make statements that seem to contain contradictions.

The most fundamental manifestation of this altruistic principle is apoptosis, which eliminates a cell when it begins to be a threat for the multi-cellular community.

It was also a reminder of the original altruistic principles of Robert Peel.

Dad, who lectures on topics like "Modes of Oration and the Brawn of Language," has a teaching career that leads father and daughter to St. Gallway, a North Carolina boarding school founded by an industrialist, Horatio Mills Gallway, "not in the name of altruistic principles like civic duty or the persistence of scholarship, but for a megalomaniacal desire to see SAINT in front of his surname".

Page insists that the company is still focused on the altruistic principles that it was founded on in 1998 with the original mission statement, when he and co-founder Sergey Brin were aiming big with "societal goals" to "organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".

Not long ago we lost a great Sikh man, a public servant who lived the egalitarian and altruistic principles which define Sikhism -- Manmeet Singh Bhullar.

This situation has created tension between the altruistic principles of hospital tissue banks and industry's profit-oriented principles.