For my personal opinion, ពុទ្ធសាសនាអនុវត្តនិងពុទ្ធសានាបដិបត្តិ are too narrow and too modern. This might reflect from the modernization of Buddhism. Cambodian Buddhism actually include not only something desired by the modernists but also the traditional school of thought that focus on the abstract cultural belief and philosophy; in the society there are different needs from different groups of people, and I do believe that Buddhism well prepared for these needs, so ពុទ្ធសាសនាសង្គមmight be more appropriate, covering all the aspect of sociey. This is just my opinion, it might be wrong but I do want to see more term coined by the buddhists rather than just focus on these two or three things; in gender field, they have coined many words such as the gender responsive, participatory gender, gender awareness, gender-budget so on and so forth; I heard about Buddhist economics but in the present Cambodia we might not use it or not known to it so that's why some monks in Cambodia become the capitalist monks like the christian priests in the past (or at present?). could the Buddhists start from now?
Best Boramy ++++++++++++++++++ Dear Chanroeun, Thank you very much for your comparative analysis of Buddhist Socialism to other forms of political and economic ideologies. Historically, Cambodia has adopted socialism from our tribal era, or long before the arrival of Hinduism and Buddhism from IndIan and Sri Lanka. We have been using communal forest, lakes, rivers for millenniums. At the final year of Sangkum Reastr Niyum or Popular Socialism (1970), Cambodia was rich with 73 % forest area, the largest in Asia. Every farming family had access to land and water. The forest area was probably larger in the pre and Angkorian time when Hinduism and Buddhism co-existed peacefully and capitalism was unknown to the Khmer Empire. The introduction of Maoism in 1975 and Soviet Style authoritarianism in 1979 and unregulated crony capitalism in 1990 have completely destroyed the Khmer community and Buddhist socialism. Land and forestall have fallen into the dirty hands of local and foreign capitalists..greed is replacing needs. Violence is replacing metta, karuna. Buddhism is no longer practiced as the kingdom's true religion. Supote ++++++++++++++++ On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:09 PM, PuppyXpress <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Dear All, > > I guess some of you are aware of the activities of Ven. Luon Sovath. He has > been known as the Multimedia Monk or a Cambodian Engaged Buddhist Monk. I > found a blog with his name http://luonsovath.blogspot.com/. I am > interested in the title of this blog: "Engaged Buddhism" in Khmer > ព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនាសង្គម. I think this translation is not right. Basically, > *Engaged > Buddhism* refers to Buddhists who are seeking ways to apply the insights > from meditation practice and dharma teachings to situations of social, > political, environmental, and economic suffering and injustice. Based on > this definition, I think that the term "Engaged Buddhism" should be > translated as ព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនាបដិបត្តិ ឬ ព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនាអនុវត្តន៍. What do > you think? > > Regards, > > Chanroeun > > > > > > > -- > "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, > and that's your own self." > ~ Aldous Huxley > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. > This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. > Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc > Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
