Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution

Chapter 1 The Buddhist Tradition of Burma’s History

Chapter 2 Buddhist Traditions about a Perfect Society, Its Decline and the Origin of the State

Chapter 3 Republican Institutions in PRE-Buddhist India and in the Buddhist Order

Chapter 4 The Buddhist Welfare State of Ashoka

Chapter 5 Survival of Ashokan Social and Political Traditions in Theravâda Kingship

Chapter 6 On the Problem of Social Ethics of Theravâda Buddhism

Chapter 7 Emergence of the Bodhisattva Ideal of Kingship in Theravâda Buddhism

Chapter 8 Pre-Buddhist Fertility Elements of the Charisma of Burmese Kingship

Chapter 9 Economic Implications of the Buddhist Ideal of Kingship

Chapter 10 The Bodhisattva Ideal of Burmese Kingship

Chapter 11 Kamma and Buddhist Merit-Causality as Rationale for Medieval Burma’s Social Order

Chapter 12 Buddhist Ethics Against the Pragmatism of Power under the Burmese Kings

Chapter 13 Static Cosmological Models for the Medieval Burmese State as Microcosm

Chapter 14 Hindu-Buddhist Universalist Ideals of a World State

Chapter 15 The Cakkavattî Ideal as a Factor in the Expansion and Fall of the Burmese Empire

Chapter 16 Burma’s Ideological Crisis in the British Conquest

Chapter 17 The Dis-Establishment of Burmese Buddhism. Protestant Missionary Attack and Modernistic Buddhist Response

Chapter 18 The White Man’s Burden of Educating Natives for Self-Government and the Counter-Claim about the Democratic and Socialistic Heritage of Buddhism

Chapter 19 Political Activization Trends within Burmese Buddhism and the Beginnings of Modern Burma’s Independence Struggle

Chapter 20 Economic Crisis of Burma’s Buddhist Society under British Rule

Chapter 21 Buddhism’s Age of Decline and Burmese Expectations of the Setkya-Min, Restorer of the Golden Age

Chapter 22 The Setkya-Min Idea and Saya San’s Peasant Revolt of 1930–1932

Chapter 23 The Beginnings of Burmese Socialism and Buddhist-Marxist Syncretism

Chapter 24 Burma’s Victory in the Independence Struggle

Chapter 25 Ideological Issues of Buddhist Socialism

Chapter 26 Political Expectations Around the 2500th Year of the Buddhist Era

Chapter 27 Burma’s Synthesis of Tradition and Revolution. U Nu’s Buddhist Socialism

Chapter 28 The Success of Efficiency Criteria Against the Symbols of Buddhist Democracy

Chapter 29 Postscript