Fundamentals of Buddhist Polity

Author – Oliver Abeynayake

Publisher – Buddhist Cultural Center

Second Batch 2018

ISBN 978-955-663-606-2

158 Pages

It is about the Buddhist view concerning the evolution of state from the primitive beginnings of tribal living up to the formation of intricate and complex systems of monarchical and republican states: In this superb exposition, Prof. Oliver Abeynayake outlines in inimitable detail the duties and responsibilities devolved upon the state or the rulers and also, in turn, those that are devolved upon the citizens and beneficiaries of the state particularly from an underlying basis of a Buddhist perspective. The moral and ethical principles legitimizing and stringing the state with its citizenry, the economy and politics, trade, international affairs and warfare together with agriculture and commerce are minutely analyzed in the light of early Buddhism. It is interesting reading for a student of religious and political history of the Indian subcontinent to know the vast and gigantic contribution made by the Indo-Aryan civilization of Asia.

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