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Article: Engaged Buddhism: selections from the speeches & writings of Sulak Sivaraksa.
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- September 22, 2002
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Sulak Sivaraksa of Bangkok, Thailand (or Siam, the more traditional name he prefers to use for his country), is probably that country's most prominent social critic and activist, and one of the major contemporary exponents of socially engaged Buddhism. Now sixty-eight years old, he has for the last almost 40 years combined provocative intellectual work and extensive writing with continual grassroots organizing establishing alternative models of sustainable, traditionally-rooted, and ethically- and spiritually-based development. Nominated in both 1993 and 1994 for the Nobel Peace Prize, in his country he has been persecuted by various dictatorships that ruled Thailand ...
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