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Right Development - The Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand (Hardcover)
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Right Development - The Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand (Hardcover)
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"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 development on three levels: the individual, community, and
society. A closer look at "a day in the life" of four women
provides further insight into this development. This book
stipulates that development must be culturally/locally situated,
focused on livelihoods rather than economic growth, environmentally
sustainable, and endogenously inspired, implemented, and
maintained. The intent here is not to offer a new meta-strategy for
global development but to underscore the need for diverse responses
to the vast array of economic, social, and environmental dilemmas.
"Right Development" offers alternatives for sustainable development
perfect for scholars of Buddhism or Thailand.
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