Buddhism and the State: RΔjadhamma after the Sattelzeit (New Paper)
Published today in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics. abstract β RΔjadhamma is a list of ten royal virtues or duties that occurs in the jΔtaka tales and that has been influential in Southeast Asian Buddhist political thought. Like pre-modern political thought in Europe β that is, thought before the Sattelzeit β Buddhist political thought lacks a concept of the βstateβ and is concerned with kings and similar rulers. Here I propose a modernized interpretation of rΔjadhamma as virtues/duties of the state. The full text (in pdf format) can be downloaded here.