BUDDHIST NATIONALISM

ENGAGED BUDDHISM

  • Vietnam: The Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc (famous and controversial act of “non-violent” protest against religious discrimination by the American supported South Vietnam government in the early days of the conflict in 1963) (2mins)
  • Myanmar: The Saffron Revolution (2007 popular revolution against the Myanmar military dictatorship led by Buddhist monks. Watch 3:22-14:31)
  • Japan: Nipponzan Myohoji peace marches (Prof. Watts’ handmade videos of this small devout Japanese order’s demonstrations against nuclear energy after the 2011 Fukushima incident)
  1. As part of the mass protest in 2012 to the first nuclear restart after Fukushima (5 mins)
  2. No Nukes Day Tokyo 2013 (45 sec)
  3. Protest in front of the Rokkasho Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in Aomori in 2013 (52 sec)
  4. Protest in front of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (which runs the Fukushima reactors) headquarters in Tokyo in 2014 (2 mins)
  • Sri Lanka: Reflections by an Engaged Buddhist leader, Harsha Navaratne, on Engaged Buddhism (3 mins)

MARKET BUDDHISM

BUDDHIST SOCIALISM