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Buddhist Socialisms in Asia

An Historical Perspective

Patrice Ladwig (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-64172-2 (ISBN)
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The interaction between socialism and Buddhism has usually been perceived as being marked by antagonism, violence and oppression, however, it has often been overlooked that in certain historical periods' models of 'Buddhist Socialism', 'Dhammic Socialism' or 'Buddhist Marxism' were widespread in Asia. As a political ideology that advocates a form of socialism based on the principles of Buddhism, it attracted the attention not only of religious professionals, but also of politicians and leaders of social reform movements.





This book explores the concrete religious, political and historical constellations these movements were grounded in and gives a comprehensive overview of the diverse interactions of different types of Buddhism(s) and various form of socialism. By taking a look at the religious movements and specific propagators of Buddhist Socialism, a comparative framework is advanced to determine what similarities and differences there existed in regard to the connection of Buddhist teachings, socialist ideals and practices. A substantial introduction and several chapters will examine the 'common core' of these movements by focusing on topics such as social welfare and justice, the distribution of property, utopianism, anti-colonial resistance and secularism, and the book will progress to examine how Buddhism and Socialism were conceptualized to be an integral part of Asian modernities, contributing to the creation of social justice, welfare and new ways of interpreting and spreading the dhamma.





Drawing on examples from a wide range of countries within Asia, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.

Patrice Ladwig is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany. His research interests include the anthropology of Buddhism (particularly Laos and Thailand), death and afterlife, the anthropology of the state, Buddhism and non-Buddhist ethnic minorities, and the interaction of Marxism and Theravada Buddhism. He is the author of Death Rituals Among the Lao (SEACOM Studies in Southeast Asian Anthropology, 2003), editor (with Paul Williams) of Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012) and of Revolutionaries and Reformers in Lao Buddhism (under contract with Routledge, forthcoming 2012).

Foreword The Buddhist backgrounds of socialist revolutions Manuel Sarkisyanz Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction: The comparative study of Buddhist Socialism Patrice Ladwig 2. Dhammic Socialism in Cambodia and beyond: The quest for righteous governance in Theravada Buddhism Ian Harris Part II. Buddhism and Socialism in the Theravada world 3. Buddhism, Marxism and the Political History of Modern Sri Lankan Buddhism Dhammic Socialism: A Buddhist Vision of Just Social Order in 1970s' Thailand H.L. Seneviratne 5. Revolutionaries in Robes: The Lao Communist Movement and the Buddhist sangha Patrice Ladwig 6. U Nu's Vision of Modernity: Buddhist Socialism in Burma Jordan Winfield 7. Ambedkar's Buddhist Marxism and the Dalit Movement in India Johannes Betz 8. The Political Theology of Navayana Buddhism Aakash Singh Part III. Buddhism and Socialism in the Mahayana world 9. "The Dharma Preaches Equality and Has no Hierarchy". Buddhism and the Anarchic-Communist Movement in Japan Fabio Rambelli 10. The Unlikely King of Shambhala. Mongolian Buddhist Millenarian Constructions of Russia, Lenin and Communist Ideology Matthew King 11. Buddhism, Socialism and Anti-Colonialism in Vietnam, 1920-1945 Elise De Vido 12. The Marxist Dimension of Chinese and Taiwanese Buddhism. Mapping patterns of interaction between religion and politics in the making of a Buddhist utopia Stefania Travagnin 13. Religious Socialism in 1920s-1930s Korea and Han Yongun's Buddhist Socialism Vladimir Tikhonov

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.2021
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 0-415-64172-1 / 0415641721
ISBN-13 978-0-415-64172-2 / 9780415641722
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