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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: “Buddhist Politics” as Emptiness: History and the Forms of Engagement in Asia
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Dependent Originations and Changing Destinations
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The Political Role of Sacred Things
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Monks, Nuns, and … Trees
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"This collection broadens our understanding of what Engaged Buddhism is and what it isn't. The grass-roots movements for peace and justice that arose in the 1950s in India, Tibet, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka were termed 'engaged' by monks, laypeople and scholars, who saw their nonviolent methods as expressions of spiritual practice. This volume places these movements alongside the rise of monastic corruption, state-sponsored terrorism, ethnic cleansing and guerrilla theater - all in the name of Buddhism. This book is a valuable synopsis of a new wave of cautionary scholarship." - Christopher Queen, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University, US, and Co-editor of Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia, Engaged Buddhism in the Wes t, an d Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism.
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Book Title: Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia
Book Subtitle: Forms of Engagement
Editors: John Whalen-Bridge, Pattana Kitiarsa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326171
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: John Whalen-Bridge and Pattana Kitiarsa 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33294-3Published: 06 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46200-1Published: 06 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32617-1Published: 31 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 277
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Asian History, Asian Politics, Asian Culture