[PDF.41ul] Right Development: The Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand

Right Development: The Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand

[PDF.wk59] Right Development: The Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand

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 | #1981856 in Books |  2005-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.28 x.69 x6.12l,.84 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Thai Buddhist reform up close|By Adrian Jones|This is a very worthwhile book. Rather specialized, I suppose. However, people interested in Thailand, Buddhism, the impact of globalization and consumerism on rural people, and alternative, locally authentic forms of development will find the book helpful.

Juliana Essen wrote up her doctoral dissertation as this book f|About the Author|Juliana Essen is adjunct professor at Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California.

"Right Development" examines the Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand as a culturally and environmentally appropriate alternative to western development programs. The Asoke group's aim is not a Western ideal, to accumulate high levels of material comfort, but a Buddhist ideal to release attachment to the material world and attain spiritual freedom. Ethnographic research at one Asoke community illuminates how Asoke beliefs and practices foster developme...

You easily download any file type for your device.Right Development: The Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand   |  Juliana Essen. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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