Buddhist Responses to Modernity

• Buddhist Nationalism (Japan): Victoria, Brian. 1997 Zen at War – small excerpt New York: Weatherhill. See an archive of his articles here
• Buddhist Nationalism (Japan): Sōka Gakkai Founder, Makiguchi Tsunesaburō, A Man of Peace? 創価学会の創立者・牧口恒三郎　平和を愛する男？by Brian Victoria. The Asia Pacific Journal. Vol. 12, 37:3, August 4, 2014
• Buddhist Nationalism (Sri Lanka): “The ‘Positive Disintegration’ of Buddhism: Reformation and Deformation in the Sri Lankan Sangha” second part pp. 107-129 in Rethinking Karma.
• Buddhist Nationalism (Sri Lanka): Should Bhikkhus play an active role in politics? by Lionel Wijesiri, Daily Mirror, March 9, 2020
• Socially Engaged Buddhism (Burma): Min Zin. “Burmese Buddhism’s Impact on Social Change: the Fatalism of Saṁsāra and Monastic Resistance” in Rethinking Karma
• Socially Engaged Buddhism (Vietnam): King, Sallie B. “Thich Nhat Hanh and the Unified Church of Vietnam: Nondualism in Action” in Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King Eds. 1996. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Socially Engaged Buddhism (Japan): Jonathan Watts “Which Way to Peace? The Role of Japanese Buddhism in Anti-Nuclear Civil Protest” in This Precious Life: Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3/11 Japan.
• Socially Engaged Buddhism (Thailand/Cambodia): Video of Thais & Cambodians engaging in a peace walk developed from Japan and ancient Buddhism.
• Buddhist Nationalism/Socially Engaged Buddhism/Market Buddhism (Japan): Stone, Jaqueline I. “Nichiren’s Activist Heirs: Soka Gakkai, Rissho Koseikai, Nipponzan Myohoji” by from Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism. Eds. Queen, Prebish, Keown. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. For a higher resolution, better quality copy of this pdf files, send me an e-mail and I will e-mail it to you.
• Market Buddhism (Japan): “Japan’s Newest Technology Innovation: Priest Delivery” by Jonathan Soble. New York Times Sept. 20, 2016
• Buddhist Socialism (Thailand): Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. 1993. Dhammic Socialism (Trans. Donald Swearer. Bangkok: Thai Inter-religious Commission for Development). For another English article: Santikaro Bhikkhu. “Buddhadasa Bhikkhu: Life and Society through the Natural Eyes of Voidness (especially 163-79) in Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King Eds. 1996. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Buddhist Socialism (Burma): Sarkiyanz, Manuel. On the place of U Nu’s Buddhist Socialism in Burma’s History of Idea Studies on Asia Series 1 Vol. 2. 1961. pp. 53-62
• Buddhist Socialism (Tibet): The (Justifiably) Angry Marxist: An interview with the Dalai Lama 日本語
• Buddhist Socialism (Japan): Are the SDGs Today’s “Opium of the Masses”? 日本語
• Buddhist Socialism: Reconsidering the SDGs in Light of Grassroots Socially Engaged Buddhism & 仏教とSDGsの実践 (2022年3月24日)
• Market Buddhism (Thailand): Santikaro & Phra Phaisan Visalo. “Goodness and Generosity Perverted: The Karma of Capitalist Buddhism in Thailand” in Rethinking Karma
• Market Buddhism (Thailand): Mackenzie, Rory New Buddhist Movements in Thailand:Towards an understanding of Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke (New York: Routledge, 2007) includes a comparison with Soka Gakkai in Japan
• Market Buddhism (Thailand): Scott, Rachelle M. Nirvana for Sale? Buddhism, Wealth, and the Dhammakāya Temple in Contemporary Thailand (New York: SUNY, 2009). includes comparisons with other Market Buddhisms; available through Keio on-line media library.