Buddhism toward Human Signity: Behavior and How to Treat Slave

Abstract

It can be said that Buddhism is a religious that is “Agaligo” which means that the Buddhist’s doctrines are always true regardless of time ( past, present or future) and conditions. The doctrines that are inscribed in the Tripitaka can reaffirm such claim. In Buddhists’ era, the Buddha taught to respect human dignity of others which seems to be the main idea of democracy in the liberal society. Lord Buddha argued that the teaching of Hindu Brahmin, one of religious in India, particularly on the castes and classes. His teaching related to being slave includes avoiding the ordination to the slave, having the slave to serve monks and nuns been also forbidden. Moreover, he regulated principle regarding how to treat slave to householder. An act as a human trafficking of a layman has been refused as well. These guidelines and the prohibitions are consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related to international law as well as domestic laws of civilized states.