Buddhist socialism is a
political ideology
An ideology is a set of beliefs or values attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely about belief in certain knowledge, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones". Form ...
which advocates
socialism
Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...
based on the principles of
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...
. Both Buddhism and socialism seek to provide an end to suffering by analyzing its conditions and removing its main causes through
praxis. Both also seek to provide a transformation of personal consciousness (respectively, spiritual and political) to bring an end to human alienation and selfishness.
People who have been described as Buddhist socialists include
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu,
,
[ Bhārtī, K. (19 August 2017)]
Marx in Ambedkar's thinking
. '' Forward Press''. Han Yong-un,
[Tikhonov, Vladimir]
Han Yongun's Buddhist Socialism in the 1920s–1930s
, International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 6, 207–228 (2006). Girō Senoo,
Uchiyama Gudō,
Inoue Shūten,
Norodom Sihanouk,
Takagi Kenmyo and
Peljidiin Genden.
[Baabar, B., ''History of Mongolia'', 1999, , . p. 322]
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu coined the phrase Dhammic socialism.
He believed that socialism is a natural state
[Dhammic Socialism Political Thought of Buddhadasa Bhikku](_blank)
, Chulalangkorn Journal of Buddhist Studies 2 (1), page 118 (2003) meaning all things exist together in one system:
Han Yong-un
Korean Buddhist reformer
Han Yong-un felt that equality was one of the main principles of Buddhism.
In an interview published in 1931, Yong-un spoke of his desire to explore Buddhist Socialism:
14th Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth
Dalai Lama of Tibet has said that:
See also
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Buddhist economics
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Engaged Buddhism
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Religious socialism
Religion is a range of social- cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, ...
References
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Dhammic Socialism a Buddhist response to social suffering.
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Religious socialism
Types of socialism