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Governance and Buddhism

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Buddhist governance; Buddhist perspective of governance; Governance in Buddhism

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Based on the spirit of Sobbe satta shuketa vabantu meaning all entities be happy, Buddhist governance offers a total system perspective of governance to steer human action, both individual and collective, including everything within its functional purview.

With Nirvana (ultimate freedom) as the overall goal, Buddhist governance includes four noble truth, eightfold path, three shelters (Trissarana), Patimokkha (accountability), and Barshabsa (moral and intellectual development process) from systems perspective.

Buddhist governance refers to the vision of wholeness as well as the interrelationship and functional connectivity among all entities, living and nonliving. Basing on sila,samadhi and prajñā it integrates everything from complicated individual human mind to all inanimate bodies and forces into a system to attain the of Nirvana.It refers to the final goal of Buddhism where there...

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  1. Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Aka Firowz Ahmad

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Ahmad, A.F. (2016). Governance and Buddhism. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2493-1

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