San, Pisith;
Drechsler, Wolfgang;
Shakya, Shobhit;
(2023)
Buddhism, Wealth, and Privilege: Ambedkar and Habermas.
Religions
, 14
(8)
, Article 1057. 10.3390/rel14081057.
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Abstract
This essay compares key essays on Buddhism by B.R. Ambedkar and Jürgen Habermas vis-à-vis the issue of Buddhism, wealth, and privilege, and the respective statements again to what the Buddha taught, from a Theravada perspective. In doing so, it can be seen that Buddhism does not indeed endorse privilege in this world—but what seems to be privilege and inherited wealth are actual merits from a former life. Since these come with their own dangers, viz. attachment and not putting wealth to good use, wealth may be nice but not more. That someone is better than someone else because of birth and inheritance rather than action is, however, established as completely non-Buddhist, again and again, even by the Buddha himself.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Buddhism, Wealth, and Privilege: Ambedkar and Habermas |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rel14081057 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14081057 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Arts & Humanities, Religion, Ambedkar, Buddhism, Habermas, inequality, privilege, wealth |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191592 |
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