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• Books (7)
• Canonical Works (15)
• Readings (19)
• Audio/Video (17)
• Related Topics (2)

Books (7)

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• The Life You Can Save
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  259 pages

  Online

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Bullshit Jobs (2018) – David Graeber

Socially Engaged Buddhism (2009) – Sallie B. King

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

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Canonical Works (15)

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• DN 5 Kūṭadanta Sutta: With Kūṭadanta (2018)
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  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
• AN 8.54 Dīghajāṇu Sutta: With Dīghajāṇu (2018)
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  This is called accomplishment in balanced finances.

  3 pages

  Online pdf
• AN 10.74 Vaḍḍhi Sutta: Growth (2018)

  Mendicants, a noble disciple who grows in ten ways grows nobly, taking on what is essential and excellent in this life. What ten?

  1 page

  Online pdf
• SN 55.44 Paṭhamamahaddhana Sutta: Rich (1st) (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 3.20 Dutiyapāpaṇika Sutta: The Second Discourse About A Shopkeeper (2012)

AN 3.29: Blind (2012)

SN 3.19 Paṭhama Aputtaka Sutta: Childless (2018)

AN 4.79: Business (2018)

Iti 41 Paññā Parihīna Sutta: Bereft of Wisdom (1997)

SN 17.5 Mīḷhaka Sutta: A Dung Beetle (2018)

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

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Readings (19)

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

  … the majority of philosophy is based on assumptions about the basic cognitive endowments of average individuals that totally disregard what is known about human development

  37 pages

  pdf
• 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

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

Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu’s Contribution to the World (1994) – Santikaro Bhikkhu

Buddhist entrepreneurs and new venture performance: The mediating role of entrepreneurial risk-taking (2019) – Zhiyang Liu, Zuhui Xu, Zhao Zhou, and Yong Li

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

Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions (2015) – Nicolas Baumard, Alexandre Hyafil, Ian Morris, and Pascal Boyer

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 (17)

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• Your Mind Is Being Fracked (2024) – D. Graham Burnett and Ezra Klein
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  The process by which money value has displaced other languages of value is one of the enormous trends over the last 200 years…

  1h 12m

  mp3
• 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

  m4a m4a

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

The Wealth (2022) – Bianca Stone and Ada Limón

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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Supertopics (2)

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• Economics (General)