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Tantric state (Record no. 25756)

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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field	02851 a2200169 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9780190058746
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	294.3372095498
Item number	LON-T
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Long, William J.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Tantric state
Sub Title	: a buddhist approach to democracy and development in Bhutan
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher	Oxford University Press
Year of publication	2019
Place of publication	New Delhi
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	232p
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc	Include Reference and Index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	Today, the majority of sovereign states can be described as "democracies" because they possess elected political leadership and some measure of commitment to the protection and promotion of individual rights and equality under law. In the economic realm, most democracies are market-based and are integrated into wider regional and global markets. Virtually all are organized around Western liberal principles and values. For some, these philosophical commitments are indigenous and longstanding, and for others they were imported later, often through colonization. This book asks how democratic governance and economic development differ when founded on Eastern, Buddhist principles, rather than Western, liberal, and Enlightenment values and beliefs. The small, remote country of Bhutan is the only democratic, market-based state that is rooted constitutionally and culturally in Mahayana Buddhist principles and ethics. In this book, William J. Long provides an authentic basis for theoretical and empirical comparison between two distinct models of democracy and development that differ on important, first-order principles. Bhutanese Buddhist and Western liberal concepts of the individual "self," "human nature" and "the pursuit of happiness"-the building blocks of democratic and market-based economic theory-differ profoundly. Because the two approaches-liberal and Buddhist-are based on distinctive philosophical traditions, this comparison elucidates new questions, frames of inquiry, and alternative understandings of democracy and development. The book describes how democratic political institutions and markets emerged and how they function in Bhutan, demonstrating how, in real-world terms, Bhutan organizes and operates a political and economic system consistent with its Buddhist worldview. It considers the nature of Bhutan's unique political institutions and its economic touchstone, the pursuit of "Gross National Happiness (GNH)," rather than Gross National Product, as its ordering principle for policy. Ultimately, Tantric State reflects on whether Bhutan's unique model can withstand the forces of globalization and what insights Bhutan might have to share with the rest of us about dilemmas facing Western democracies and the need to pursue development in a more holistic and sustainable way
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note	<br/>
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Democracy
Form subdivision	Politics and government
--	Religion and politics
--	Buddhism and politics
Geographic subdivision	Bhutan
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Home library	Current library	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price	Bill Date	Full call number	Accession Number	Cost, replacement price	Price effective from	Koha item type
				NASSDOC Library	NASSDOC Library	26/12/2019	OP	434.35	2019-12-20	294.3372095498 LON-T	50562	595.00	26/12/2019	Books