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'Probably the most comprehensive introduction to Buddhist political thought in Myanmar, this book is likely to be a standard text for years to come. Author Matthew Walton rightly acknowledges Gustaaf Houtman's ... groundbreaking work on Burmese Buddhist political culture. Yet this book makes such significant contributions that it helps establish Walton's position among the leading scholars of Myanmar's complex and contested politics. The book is particularly timely given the renewed prominence of Buddhism in Burmese politics.' Ashley South, Journal of Contemporary Asia

'Probably the most comprehensive introduction to Buddhist political thought in Myanmar, this book is likely to be a standard text for years to come. Author Matthew Walton rightly acknowledges Gustaaf Houtman's … groundbreaking work on Burmese Buddhist political culture. Yet this book makes such significant contributions that it helps establish Walton's position among the leading scholars of Myanmar's complex and contested politics. The book is particularly timely given the renewed prominence of Buddhism in Burmese politics.' Ashley South, Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Matthew J. Walton is the Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford. He has published widely in academic journals and in the media on a number of topics, focused primarily on religion, politics and ethnicity in Myanmar.

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