{"id":6776,"date":"2013-07-02T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6776"},"modified":"2013-07-02T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:05:00","slug":"half-buddhist-half-marxist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/07\/02\/half-buddhist-half-marxist\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Buddhist, half-Marxist"},"content":{"rendered":"

For anyone who thought “socially engaged Buddhism” (a.k.a. liberation Buddhism, Buddhist socialism, et al.) was a marginal movement within the Buddhist world, Bruce Smithers’s Tricycle<\/em> article “Occupy Buddhism”<\/a> shows it reaches high up the (sort of) hierarchy of publicly known Buddhists… to the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n

It’s a selective analysis (the DL is much more pragmatic<\/a> than this suggests). But worth reading, as are the comments.<\/p>\n

Hat tip to Brian McKenna of the E-ANTH listserv.<\/p>\n

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For anyone who thought “socially engaged Buddhism” (a.k.a. liberation Buddhism, Buddhist socialism, et al.) was a marginal movement within the Buddhist world, Bruce Smithers’s Tricycle article “Occupy Buddhism” shows it reaches high up the (sort of) hierarchy of publicly known Buddhists… to the Dalai Lama. 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