Buddhist socialism
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Buddhist socialism is a political ideology which advocates socialism based on the principles of Buddhism. Both Buddhism and socialism seek to provide an end to suffering by analyzing its conditions and removing its main causes through praxis. Both also seek to provide a transformation of personal consciousness (respectively, spiritual and political) to bring an end to human alienation and selfishness.<ref>Shields, James Mark; Liberation as Revolutionary Praxis: Rethinking Buddhist Materialism; Journal of Buddhist Ethics. Volume 20, 2013.</ref>
People who have been described as Buddhist socialists include Buddhadasa Bhikkhu,<ref name="whatis">Template:Cite web</ref> B. R. Ambedkar,<ref name="bhārtī2017">Bhārtī, K. (19 August 2017). Marx in Ambedkar's thinking Template:Webarchive. Forward Press.</ref> Han Yong-un,<ref name="han">Tikhonov, Vladimir, Han Yongun's Buddhist Socialism in the 1920s–1930s Template:Webarchive, International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 6, 207–228 (2006).</ref> Girō Senoo,<ref>Shields, James Mark; Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution The Radical Buddhism of Seno'o Girō (1889–1961) and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism, Japanese Journal of religious Studies 39 (2), 331–351 (2012) PDF</ref> Uchiyama Gudō,<ref>Rambelli, Fabio (2013). Zen Anarchism: The Egalitarian Dharma of Uchiyama Gudō. Institute of Buddhist Studies and BDK America, Inc.</ref> Inoue Shūten, Norodom Sihanouk,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Takagi Kenmyo<ref>Takagi, Kenmyo (1904), My Socialism Template:Webarchive.</ref> and Peljidiin Genden.<ref>Baabar, B., History of Mongolia, 1999, Template:ISBN, Template:OCLC. p. 322</ref>
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu coined the phrase Dhammic socialism.<ref name="whatis"/> He believed that socialism is a natural state<ref name="thought">Dhammic Socialism Political Thought of Buddhadasa Bhikku Template:Webarchive, Chulalangkorn Journal of Buddhist Studies 2 (1), page 118 (2003)</ref> meaning all things exist together in one system:<ref name="thought"/>
Han Yong-un
Korean Buddhist reformer Han Yong-un felt that equality was one of the main principles of Buddhism.<ref name="han" /> In an interview published in 1931, Yong-un spoke of his desire to explore Buddhist Socialism:<ref name="han" />
14th Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet has said that: Template:Cquote
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- Dhammic Socialism, a Buddhist response to social suffering.