Buddhism and the State: Rājadhamma after the Sattelzeit

Journal of Buddhist Ethics 31:501-521 (2024)
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Abstract

Rājadhamma is a list of ten royal virtues or duties that occurs in the jātaka tales and that has been influential in Southeast Asian Buddhist political thought. Like pre-modern political thought in Europe—that is, thought before the Sattelzeit—Buddhist political thought lacks a concept of the “state” and is concerned with kings and similar rulers. Here I propose a modernized interpretation of rājadhamma as virtues/duties of the state.

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Lajos L. Brons
University of Groningen (PhD)

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