Elucidating the sustainable political economy of Buddhist nations

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This book is about the politics and Buddhism, whose core aspiration was succinctly put in the title “Elucidating the Sustainable Political Economy of Buddhist Nations.” This book elucidates the sustainable political economy framework for Buddhist nations, which is developed in a way also pertinent to the discussion of the political economy in general in other nations. A political economy framework for Buddhism has never been written, not even by Shakyamuni Buddha nor Je Tsongkhapa. This is because there is a deep conceptual issue which may be stated as the Buddhism and politics perceived as water and oil, that is, non-mixable components. Notwithstanding the great challenges, this book provides the first rigorous theory on the sustainable political economy for Buddhist nations. This book reviews the history of Buddhist canons from which the theory of political governance by Dharma Kings or the rule of religion emerged in Tibet. It also reviews the history of the tensions and conflicts between the emperor and the Buddha, which was prominent in India and China. In the empirical analysis, this book focuses on the Dharma King governance in Tibet before the mid-20th century and the Maitreya revolutionaries in China who dreamed frequently of seizing ultimate political power. It explains how the western political economic revolutions in the American revolution, French revolution, and Russian revolution arrived in Asia as the Chinese communist revolution and ended up at the door of Tibet. The elucidation of the sustainable political economy framework for Buddhist nations, provided in Chapter 7, is thoroughly based on the most recent political science as well as the history of Buddhist thoughts. The latter is provided with a thorough review of the Buddhist canons: Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese canons. The former is provided with the exposition of the twelve responsibility areas of the modern government. In the final chapter, this sustainable political economy framework is applied to or interpreted for the stages of the path to enlightenment (Lamrim in Tibetan) of individual Buddhist practitioners.

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