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Author:   Patrice Ladwig (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9780415641722

ISBN 10:   0415641721
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 January 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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).

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