Buddhism and politics in twentieth-century Asia

by Ian Harris

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First edition

London and New York: Pinter, 1999 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 300; fine copy in original laminate pictorial boards. Historically, Buddhism has tended to prosper in societies organized in accordance with the sociopolitical teachings of the Buddha. The twentieth century has been a particularly traumatic time in its history, not least because traditional polities in its Asian heartlands have been eroded by such disparate factors as war, colonialism,

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