Articles
Buddhist Political ideas and education focused on original view
- AUTHOR
- Sae-Weon Youn
- INFORMATION
- page. 57~77 / Vol.15 (2002)
- e-ISSN
- 2672-1767
- p-ISSN
- 1229-6627
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ABSTRACT
This article consists of two parts. The first part is the character of Buddha and his sangha as a group of pedagogues. Buddhism is a religion to suggest clearly self- educational aim so called Nibbana. Assuming unlimited ability of human progress, Buddha is the greatest teacher in the history of mankind. The second part is a investigation of socio-political meaning of the educational character of Buddhism. This part contains the relations between the Buddhism and politics focused on political aspects of moral mature through the education of Buddhism. For the sake of efficiency, writer confined texts of this work in early suttas.