Edited by Jonathan Watts, Alan Senauke, Santikaro Bhikkhu

Compiled from the talks given at the 1995 INEB Dhammic Society meeting, INEB founders, members and friends give critiques of their present societies and visions for society guided by “buddhist” ideals. Interviews with INEB’s two elder founders Sulak Sivaraksa and Rev. Teruo Maruyama. Essays on Dhammic Socialism, Buddhist economics, women in Thai Buddhism, Korean engaged Buddhism, Buddhist approaches towards globalization, and a picture of a different kind of community. The volume is the first such of INEB’s Think Sangha, a community of Buddhist social thinkers and intellectual activists which uses a Buddhist Sangha model to explore pressing social issues and concerns. 
 
Review of “Entering the Realm of Reality” (Inquiring Mind, Spring 1998)

Contents:

Introduction – Alan Senauke & Jonathan Watts

I. The Challenge to Sangha

Envisioning the Future by Robert Aitken Roshi 

II. Interviews with INEB Founders

The Methodology of Truth: A Nichiren Priest’s Struggle for a Socially Valid Buddhism by Rev. Maruyama Teruo

Integrating Head & Heart: Indigenous Alternatives to Modernism by Sulak Siviraksa 

III. A Patron’s Vision

The Four Noble Truths of Dhammic Socialism by Santikaro Bhikkhu (for the late Buddhadasa Bhikkhu) 

IV. National Issues

A Vision of Dharmic Society: A Buddhist Woman’s Perspective by Chatsumarn Kabilsingh

A Mahayana Vision of Dharmic Society in Korea: Through “the Enlightenment For Society Movement” by Ven. Jinwol Sunim 

V. Engaging the System

Buddhist Engagement in the Global Economy by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Towards a Progressive Buddhist Economics by Simon Zadek 

Epilogue

Pentre Gwyrrd A.D. 2050: Visiting a Community in Green Wales by Ken Jones