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• Books (7)
• Canonical Works (12)
• Documents (18)
• Audio/Video (15)

Books (7)

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• The Life You Can Save
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  259 pages

  Online
• Bullshit Jobs
  204 pages

  Online

See also:

Facing the Future: Four Essays on the Social Relevance of Buddhism (2000) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

A Single Bowl of Sauce: Teachings Beyond Good and Evil (2017) – Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu

The Ethics of Buddhism and the Ethos of the Japanese Management: The Spirit of Ji-Hi (2005) – Ichirou Horide

Stumbling on Happiness (2006) – Daniel Gilbert

Socially Engaged Buddhism (2009) – Sallie B. King

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Canonical Works (12)

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• DN 5: The Kūṭadanta Sutta (2018)
  ⭐ Recommended

  Let the king provide funding for those who work in trade. Let the king guarantee food and wages for those in government service. Then the people, occupied with their own work, will not harass the realm. The king’s revenues will be great.

  14 pages

  Online pdf
• SN 55.44: The Aḍḍha Sutta (2020)

  a noble disciple who has four things is said to be rich, prosperous, and wealthy.

  1 page

  Online pdf

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AN 5.41 The Ādiya Sutta: The Discourse on the Right Use [of Wealth] (2015)

MN 13: Mahādukkhakkhanda Sutta (The Greater Discourse on the Mass of Suffering) (2009)

SN 42.9 Kula Sutta: Families (2018)

AN 6.45: Debt (2018)

AN 8.80: Grounds for Laziness (2018)

AN 3.29: Blind (2012)

SN 3.19 Paṭhama Aputtaka Sutta: Childless (2018)

AN 4.79: Business (2018)

SN 17.5: A Dung Beetle (2018)

AN 4.62: Freedom from Debt (2005) – Kamala Masters

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Documents (18)

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• Zen Internationalism, Zen Revolution: Inoue Shūten, Uchiyama Gudō and the Crisis of (Zen) Buddhist Modernity in Late Meiji Japan (2022) – James Mark Shields

  the lives and thought of two rather different radical, Zen Buddhists of late Meiji Japan in order to discern whether and in what ways their progressive political ideals were influenced by Chan thought and practice.

  25 pages

  Online pdf

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Local Food: The Moral Case (2020) – Helena de Bres

Merit-Making or Financial Fraud: Litigating Buddhist Nuns in Early 10th-Century Dunhuang (2018) – Chuilan Liu

Landscapes of the Law: Injury, Remedy, and Social Change in Thailand (2009) – David M. Engel

Four Futures (2011) – Peter Frase

On realizing the possibilities of emancipatory meta-theory: Beyond the cognitive maturity fallacy, toward an education revolution (2015) – Zachary Stein

Seno’o Girō and the Dilemma of Modern Buddhism: Leftist Prophet of the Lotus Sutra (1984) – Whalen Lai

Watanabe Kaigyoku and Buddhist Responses to the ‘Labour Question’ in Early-Twentieth Century Japan (2019) – Cameron Penwell

The Global Refugee Crisis and the Gift of Fearlessness (2019) – Christina A. Kilby

Buddhism and Human Flourishing (2013) – Peter Harvey

Climate Change, Ethics, and the Field of Greed (2013) – Victor von der Heyde

The Economy of Gifts (1997) – Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro

The Laughing Buddha: Doing business and the art of motivation (2012) – Ang Sik Liong and Low Kim Cheng Patrick

Buddhism: A Balancing Factor for Current World Developments (2009) – Ven Dhammavamso

Coined Money and Early Buddhism (2015) – Richard Fynes

Iyothee Tass: Hero of Tamil Buddhism (2020) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

PTSD in the Slaughterhouse (2012)

Uttarakuru: The Northern Kuru Country (2008) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

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Audio/Video (15)

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• The Buddha’s Footprint (Interview) (2020) – Johan Elverskog

  Early in the history of Buddhism, some monastics decided to stress the good merit of ostentatious donation to the Sangha. This early “prosperity theology” offered mercantile lay Buddhists an apologia for materialism and expansionism that profoundly reshaped Buddhism, Asia and the World.

  1h 29m

  Online
• Vietnamese Remittances and the Practice of Generosity (2020) – Ivan V. Small

  I can have more economic opportunity and can therefore cultivate this generosity

  6 min

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See also:

Buddhist Approach to Economics (2008) – Ajahn Jayasaro

MN 13: Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta Study Class (2007) – Ajahn Brahm

Applied Compassion (2012) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

On Buddhist Education (2007) – Ajahn Jayasaro

The most important book I’ve read this year (2020) – Kim Stanley Robinson and Ezra Klein

Carlos Doesn’t Remember (2016) – Malcolm Gladwell

Balancing Spiritual and Material Pursuits (2009) – Ajahn Brahmali

The Loneliness Epidemic (2019) – Vivek Murthy and Ezra Klein

The Wheel (2012) – SOHN

flight training (2022) – Shayla Lawz and Ada Limón

Neomaterialism (2019) – Timothy LeCain

To be of use (2020) – Marge Piercy and Tracy K. Smith

Just Movement (2013) – Robert DeLong

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