Course Readings

“Buddhism with a small ‘b’”   Sulak Sivaraksa

  "Buddhist Texts from a Feminist Perspective"  Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (Ven. Dhammananda) 

  “Goodness and Generosity Perverted: The Karma of Capitalist Buddhism in Thailand”  Santikaro and Phra Phaisan Visalo 

  “The Bhikkhuni-Controversy in Thailand”   Martin Seeger 

  Women in Thai Buddhism  Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (Ven. Dhammananda) Chapters 4-6 

  “Principles and poetry, places and stories: The resources of Buddhist ecology”. Donald K. Swearer 

  Maha-paranirvana Sutta:  “The Buddha’s Final Sermon” 

  Gotami Sutta: "Parable of the Mustard Seed"

  “Bizarre Thailand: Tales of Sex, Crime, and Black Magic”  Jim Algie 

  “The ordination of a tree: The Buddhist ecology movement in Thailand”  Susan Darlington

  “Male Homosexuality and Transgenderism in the Thai Buddhist Tradition” Peter A. Jackson 

 "An Alternative Social Development in Thailand : The Asoke Buddhist Community" Suwida Sangsehanat

 "Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand" Amnuaypond Kidpromma

 "Commercial Sex in Thailand" from Ronald Weitzer's Sex Tourism in Thailand

 Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki

"Sex Scandals and Buddhist Monks in Thailand"  Brooke Shedneck & Steve Epstein