Buddhism Power And Political Order
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Author | : Ian Harris |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2007-06-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134129475 |
This volume brings together the brightest minds in the study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia to create a more coherent account of the relations between Buddhism and political order in the late pre-modern and modern period.
Author | : Ian Harris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441167714 |
In this study, a team of international scholars assess the manner in which Buddhist organizations and individuals have resisted, come to terms with, or in some cases allied themselves with the forces of war, modernity, westernization, nationalization, capitalism, communism, and ethnic conflict. By examining issues such as left-right divisions in the monastic order, the rise of organized lay movements, Buddhist social activism, as well as explicitly Buddhist inspired political activity, this book seeks to demonstrate that the emphasis on meditation and mental training is only one strand in this richly complex world historical tradition.
Author | : sem Versmeersch |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1684174767 |
"Buddhism in medieval Korea is characterized as “State Protection Buddhism,” a religion whose primary purpose was to rally support (supernatural and popular) for and legitimate the state. In this view, the state used Buddhism to engender compliance with its goals. A closer look, however, reveals that Buddhism was a canvas on which people projected many religious and secular concerns and desires. This study is an attempt to specify Buddhism’s place in Koryo and to ascertain to what extent and in what areas Buddhism functioned as a state religion. Was state support the main reason for Buddhism’s dominance in Koryo? How actively did the state seek to promote religious ideals? What was the strength of Buddhism as an institution and the nature of its relationship to the state? What role did Confucianism, the other state ideology, play in Koryo? This study argues that Buddhism provided most of the symbols and rituals, and some of the beliefs, that constructed an aura of legitimacy, but that there was no single ideological system underlying the Koryo dynasty’s legitimating strategies."
Author | : Hiroko Kawanami |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137574003 |
This study examines the impact of Buddhism on the political process of Asian countries in recent times. The intersection between Buddhism and politics; religious authority and political power is explored through the engagement of Buddhist monks and lay activists in the process of nation-building, development, and implementation of democracy.
Author | : Sameer Das Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Buddhism and politics |
ISBN | : 9788178847153 |
Author | : Jerrold L. Schecter |
Publisher | : New York : Coward-McCann |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Buddhism and state |
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Author | : Somboon Suksamran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
Chiefly refers to Thailand and Buddhism in Laos and Cambodian politics.
Author | : Katewadee Kulabkaew |
Publisher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9814843733 |
The past two decades have been a time of turmoil in Thailand’s religious affairs. Disputes, debates and controversies concerning the administration of Buddhism, Thailand’s national religion by tradition, have erupted more and more frequently. This chronic and unresolvable conflict originates from Thai Buddhists’ inability to achieve a broad consensus on religious reform. Under the governance of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) junta that came to power in 2014, the fierce struggle concerning Buddhist reform seemed to subside. Upholding and protecting Buddhism might be a duty of traditional Thai rulers who desire for a source of political legitimacy, but the NCPO’s decisive actions concerning Buddhist institutional reform were not merely reflected respect for this tradition, but were closely intertwined with the dynamic of contending forces in Thailand’s long-troubled religious politics. Conflicts between the influential religious nationalists and the Thai Sangha convinced the military government of the need to act, for the sake of national security and political stability.
Author | : Sin-wai Chan |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1985-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Shawn Frederick McHale |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824826550 |
In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed matter soared between 1920 and 1945 and in the process transformed Vietnamese public life and shaped the modern Vietnamese consciousnesss. Print and Power examines the impact of the French colonial state on Vietnamese society as well as Vietnamese and East Asian understandings of public discourse and public space. The work goes on to contest the impact of Confucianism on pre-modern and modern Vietnam and, based on materials never before used, provides a radically new perspective on the rise of Vietnamese communism from 1929 to 1945.