Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes

The current Western interest in Buddhism and other Eastern religions is—among other reasons—both the result of and the stimulation for an entire library of books purporting to bring the Wisdom of the East to an audience for whom the wisdom of the West has failed. This book is not an example of that genre. It is an attempt to interpret Buddhism in the light of some current theories about religion. As a work of scholarship, rather than a homiletic tract or an apologetic treatise, its aim is t...