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16 August 2026

• 17:4517:45, 16 August 2026 SG32NNU-T (hist | edit) [32,256 bytes] James (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Under Construction}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Seno'o Girō, “The Crisis of the Countryside and the Rural Temple Movement”}} '''Original Japanese:''' Seno'o Girō (妹尾義郎) (1932). 「農村の窮迫と農村寺院の運動」 [The Crisis of the Countryside and the Rural Temple Movement]. 『新興佛教』, July 1932. Reprinted in 稲垣真美編『妹尾義郎宗教論集』 (Tokyo: 大蔵出版, 1975), 316–324. '''English translation:''' Senoo Gir...") originally created as "The Crisis of the Countryside and the Rural Temple Movement"
• 11:3811:38, 16 August 2026 Rahul Sankrityayan (hist | edit) [43,609 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Awaiting Review}} Rahul Sankrityayan (राहुल सांकृत्यायन, born Kedarnath Pandey, 1893–1963) was a Hindi-language polymath, former Buddhist monk, and Marxist activist and historian who became the single most influential figure in linking the twentieth-century Indian revival of Buddhism to the communist movement. Trained as a Tripitakacharya in Sri Lanka and a repeated, clandestine traveler to Tibet in search of lost Sanskrit Budd...")

15 August 2026

• 23:2423:24, 15 August 2026 BR Ambedkar (hist | edit) [37,721 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Awaiting Review}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:B.R. Ambedkar}} Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), popularly honored as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, and the principal architect of the Constitution of India who, in October 1956, led a mass conversion of several hundred thousand of his followers, most of them from his own Mahar caste, from Hinduism to a reinterpreted, rationalist form of Buddhism. Trained at Columbia University and the London School o...") originally created as "B.R. Ambedkar"
• 12:1912:19, 15 August 2026 Ashin Nyana (hist | edit) [22,277 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Ashin Nyāna}} Ashin Nyāna (အရှင်ဉာဏ; b. 1938), also known as U Nyana, is a Burmese Buddhist reformer and founder of the Mou-pyā-wāda, or "Doctrine of the Sky-Blue [One]", a heterodox Buddhist movement that emerged in Burma in the 1970s and became particularly prominent from the late 1990s. Nyāna rejected much of the cosmological and doctrinal framework of conventional Burmese Theravāda Buddhism, arguing...")
• 05:1405:14, 15 August 2026 NA84HPA-T (hist | edit) [13 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(placeholder)")

14 August 2026

• 19:3019:30, 14 August 2026 SG34BHU-T (hist | edit) [20,192 bytes] James (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:Buddhism and the Peace Movement}} <languages /> <div class="rbp-source"> = Buddhism and the Peace Movement = '''Seno’o Girō (妹尾義郎), 1934''' ''Translated by James Mark Shields'' '''Original publication:''' 妹尾義郎「仏教と平和運動」『国民仏教聖典』秀文閣書房、1934年（昭和9年）. '''Source text:''' 妹尾義郎「仏教と平和運動」稲垣真美編『妹尾義郎宗教論集』東京：大蔵出版、1975...") originally created as "Buddhism and the Peace Movement"

13 August 2026

• 05:3805:38, 13 August 2026 Shin Ukkattha (hist | edit) [17,554 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Shin Ukkaṭṭha}} Shin Ukkaṭṭha (1897–1978) was a Burmese Buddhist monk, nationalist, educational reformer, and radical Buddhist modernist whose heterodox interpretations of Buddhist doctrine brought him into repeated conflict with the Burmese Sangha hierarchy and, eventually, with the state. Influenced by Buddhist modernism, theosophy, Darwinian evolutionary theory, international Buddhist networks, and the intellect...") originally created as "Shin Ukattha"

12 August 2026

• 17:0017:00, 12 August 2026 SG33SHS-T (hist | edit) [224,409 bytes] James (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Today, we can see the decline of late-stage capitalism in politics and economics, and in urban and rural areas, while the lives of the masses have reached a peak of anxiety. During this transitional period, what should we, as Buddhist practitioners who strive to live according to the noble and supreme ideal of saving humanity, do? The sole task imposed upon us is the reorganization of Buddhism based on contem- porary consciousness. This entails the establishment of an...") originally created as "Revitalized Buddhism on the Road to Social Reform"

8 August 2026

• 03:3703:37, 8 August 2026 Radical Buddhism in the West (hist | edit) [29,385 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Awaiting Review}} The history of radical Buddhism in the West differs significantly from its development in Asia. In Buddhist-majority societies such as Japan, China, Sri Lanka, and Burma, radical Buddhist movements generally emerged from within long-established Buddhist institutions as responses to colonialism, imperialism, industrialization, class conflict, or authoritarian rule. In Europe, North America, and other Western societies, by contrast, Budd...")

7 August 2026

• 22:3522:35, 7 August 2026 U Nu (hist | edit) [15,224 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} U Nu (1907–1995) was Burma's first prime minister after independence (1948–1958, 1960–1962) and the twentieth century's most influential exponent of Buddhist socialism. A leading figure of the university-educated ''thakin'' nationalist generation, he combined a Marxist-derived economic radicalism, absorbed partly through the Nagani ("Red Dragon") Book Club he helped found in the 1930s, with a lifelong immersion in Theravada Buddhist doctri...")
• 22:3022:30, 7 August 2026 U Ba Swe (hist | edit) [10,833 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} U Ba Swe (1915–1987) was a Burmese labor leader, chairman of the Socialist Party, and the country's second prime minister (1956–1957), best remembered within the history of radical Buddhism as the most consistent and uncompromising exponent of the compatibility of Marxism and Buddhism among Burma's ruling ''thakin''-generation socialists. Rising through the anticolonial student and labor movements of the 1930s, Ba Swe helped found the...")
• 22:1922:19, 7 August 2026 Burma (hist | edit) [34,482 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Burma (renamed Myanmar by its military government in 1989) is the only major area of Theravada Buddhism to have passed, in the course of the twentieth century, through both a wholesale collapse of its traditional Buddhist polity and a sustained attempt to rebuild the modern state on explicitly Buddhist terms.<ref name="sark61">Sarkisyanz, Manuel (1961). "On the Place of U Nu's Buddhist Socialism in Burma's History of Ideas". ''Studies on Asia'' 2.1:...")
• 04:2104:21, 7 August 2026 Taiwan (hist | edit) [15,183 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Taiwan is an island in East Asia whose Buddhist history has been shaped by three successive and sharply distinct political regimes: Qing-dynasty rule following Han Chinese settlement (1683–1895), Japanese colonial rule (1895–1945), and the Republic of China under the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT), which imposed martial law from 1949 until 1987 before giving way to a pluralistic, democratic society.<ref name="jones1999-intro">...")

6 August 2026

• 23:3623:36, 6 August 2026 Regular Updates for Patreon Supporters (hist | edit) [331 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{:How to Support the Radical Buddhism Project}} == Regular Content Updates for Patreon Supporters == As a service to Patreon supporters, regular updates about new content (as well as major revisions and noteworthy discussions in the forum) will be posted at the RBP's official [https://patreon.com/radicalbuddhism Patreon Page].")
• 22:5922:59, 6 August 2026 Kohashi Shoichi (hist | edit) [20,718 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Awaiting Review}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Kōhashi Shōichi}} Kōhashi Shōichi (孝橋正一, 1912–1999) was a Japanese Marxist scholar of social work (shakai jigyō, 社会事業) and social welfare policy who, over the course of a long academic career, produced one of the two rival foundational theories of postwar Japanese social work, standing opposite Okamura Shigeo's (岡村重夫) "technology theory" (''gijutsuron'', 技術論) as the leading exponent of "policy th...")
• 04:0004:00, 6 August 2026 Minjung Buddhism (hist | edit) [18,848 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} '''Minjung Buddhism''' (''Minjung Pulgyo'' 民衆佛敎, "Buddhism of the Masses" or "the Oppressed") was a Buddhist activist movement in South Korea, active from roughly 1980 to the early 1990s, that fused early Buddhist and Mahāyāna doctrine with Marxist and other socialist frameworks in order to criticize the ruling military dictatorship, the Chogye Order's collaboration with the state, and South Korea's dependency on the United States.<ref...")
• 03:2803:28, 6 August 2026 Han Yongun (hist | edit) [22,484 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Han Yongun (한용운; 韓龍雲; 1879–1944), better known by his Buddhist pen name Manhae (萬海/卍海, "Vast Sea"), was a Korean Sŏn (Seon) Buddhist monk, poet, and independence activist. Trained in Sŏn meditation and in Yogācāra and Hwaŏm (Avataṃsaka) philosophy, Han began his intellectual career steeped in the Social Darwinism popularized in Korea by Liang Qichao (梁啓超), before gradually reworking Mahāyāna doctrines of univ...")

5 August 2026

• 23:2623:26, 5 August 2026 Korea (hist | edit) [14,769 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Korea's Buddhist community has passed through Neo-Confucian marginalization under the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910), forced institutional restructuring under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945), postwar division into a socialist North and an anti-Communist South, and decades of authoritarian rule in South Korea before democratization in 1987. Against this backdrop, Korean Buddhism produced three distinct, non-continuous waves of engagement with lef...")
• 22:3222:32, 5 August 2026 Vietnam (hist | edit) [12,056 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Vietnamese Buddhism is predominantly Mahayana, combining Pure Land (Tịnh Độ) devotionalism with Thiền (Chan/Zen) self-cultivation, alongside popular millenarian offshoots such as the Hòa Hảo and Cao Đài. Its modern history has been shaped by French colonial rule, the Buddhist Revival of the 1920s and 1930s, the wars of 1945–1975, and, after 1975, a socialist state that maintains tight control over religious institutions. Buddhism's mos...")
• 12:0312:03, 5 August 2026 Khamtan Thepbuali (hist | edit) [17,119 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Maha Khamtan Thepbuali (1919–2019; also romanized Khamthan or Khamtam Thepbuali) was a Lao Theravada Buddhist monk, revolutionary, and, after 1979, layman who became the principal architect of a state-sponsored synthesis of Buddhism and Marxism in socialist Laos. Trained to an advanced Pali level in Thailand, he joined the Pathet Lao insurgency around 1960–1961 and, from its wartime base in Houaphan province, developed and taught a hist...")
• 11:5711:57, 5 August 2026 Bong Souvannavong (hist | edit) [15,800 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Bong Souvannavong (1906–1978) was a Lao politician, journalist, and businessman who founded the country's first political party and, from the late 1950s, developed one of the earliest sustained attempts to articulate a specifically Buddhist alternative to both colonial capitalism and Marxist revolution in Laos. A lay Buddhist rather than a monk, and a neutralist democrat rather than a doctrinaire socialist, Bong proposed in his 1961 tract ''Doctri...")
• 11:4211:42, 5 August 2026 Laos (hist | edit) [19,692 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is a landlocked Southeast Asian nation and the only Marxist-Leninist single-party state whose traditional national religion is Theravada Buddhism. For over six centuries Buddhism supplied the ideological cement of Lao kingship, binding the monarchy of Lan Xang and its successor states to the Sangha in a mutually reinforcing relationship of legitimation. French colonial rule (1893–1953)...")
• 02:2502:25, 5 August 2026 CM49MFS-T (hist | edit) [25,840 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Translation Review}}__NOTOC__ {{DISPLAYTITLE:Chen Mingshu, "Letter to Mao on the Buddhadharma"}} Chen Mingshu (陳銘樞) (1949). 〈陳銘樞先生致　毛主席論佛法書〉 [Mr. Chen Mingshu's Letter to Chairman Mao on the Buddhadharma]. 《覺訊月刊》 3.8: 2–3. Reprinted: 《民國佛教期刊文獻集成・補編》 78: 470–471. {{opage|470}} '''{{size|125%|Mr. Chen Mingshu's Letter to Chairman Mao on the Buddhadharma}}''' Dear Mr. Ru...")
• 01:3901:39, 5 August 2026 WG48ZSM-T (hist | edit) [93,546 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Translation Review}}__NOTOC__ {{DISPLAYTITLE:Wen Guangxi, "What Is to Be Done?"}} Wen Guangxi (溫光熹) (1948), 〈做什麼？〉 [What Is to Be Done?], 《覺有情》 9.5: 2–7; & 9.6: 4–7. Reprinted: 《民國佛教期刊文獻集成》 89: 402–407; & 428–431. {{opage|402}} == What Is to Be Done? == :Wen Guangxi (溫光熹) Table of Contents<br> A. "A Boatful of Mountain Shadows Sails Down to Yangzhou"<br> B. What Is It?<br> C. What Is to Be Done?<...")
• 00:0900:09, 5 August 2026 CM49MFS (hist | edit) [11,289 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Textual Verification}}__NOTOC__ {{DISPLAYTITLE:陳銘樞、〈致毛主席論佛法書〉}} Chen Mingshu (陳銘樞) (1949). 〈陳銘樞先生致毛主席論佛法書〉 [Mr. Chen Mingshu's Letter to Chairman Mao on the Buddhadharma]. 《覺訊月刊》 3.8: 2–3. Reprinted: 《民國佛教期刊文獻集成・補編》 78: 470–1. <hr> {{tpage|470}} '''{{size|150%|陳銘樞先生致毛　主席論佛法書}}''' 潤之先生腸鑒：日昨蒙賜長談，得...")

4 August 2026

• 10:2010:20, 4 August 2026 Japan (hist | edit) [44,733 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Japan presents one of the richest and longest-running case studies in radical Buddhism: a nation in which Buddhist institutions were, for most of their history, deeply "imbricated" with secular power, whether the imperial court, the medieval temple-complexes (権門 ''kenmon'') of Heian and Kamakura Japan, or the shogunates of the Edo period, yet in which recurrent episodes of peasant unrest, sectarian reform, and modern political radicalism repeate...")
• 07:1007:10, 4 August 2026 WG48ZSM (hist | edit) [45,936 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Under Construction}} {{Textual Verification}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:溫光熹、〈做什麼？〉}} Wen Guangxi (溫光熹) (1948), 〈做什麼？〉 [What is to be Done?], 《覺有情》 9.5: 2–7; & 9.6: 4–7. Reprinted: 《民國佛教期刊文獻集成》 89: 402–407; & 428–431. {{tpage|402}} == 做什麼？ == :溫光熹 目錄<br> A「一船山影下揚州」<br> B 是什麼？<br> C 做什麼？ == 寫在前頭 == 我很感謝陳无我居士惠贈...")

3 August 2026

• 12:0012:00, 3 August 2026 Tenzin Gyatso (hist | edit) [14,262 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (b. 1935), is the single most sustained and best-documented example of personal Buddhist-Marxist synthesis identified anywhere in this project's Tibetan research. Recognized as the Dalai Lama in 1937 and enthroned in 1940, he assumed full political authority in 1950 as Chinese Communist forces advanced into Tibet. During an extended 1954–1955 stay in China he was personally tutored in Marxist-Leninist theory and...")
• 11:4911:49, 3 August 2026 Geshe Sherab Gyatso (hist | edit) [13,149 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Geshe Sherab Gyatso (rDo-sbis dGe-bshes Shes-rab rGya-mtsho, 1884–1968) was an Amdo-born Gelugpa monk-scholar, the Drepung teacher of Gendün Chömpel, who moved from senior Kuomintang cultural-diplomatic service in the 1930s and 1940s to a senior role in the People's Republic's state Buddhist establishment after 1949, serving as vice-governor of Qinghai Province and as head of the Chinese Buddhist Association. As early as 1934 he privately expres...")
• 11:3811:38, 3 August 2026 Gendun Chompel (hist | edit) [13,358 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Gendün Chömpel}} Gendün Chömpel (dGe-'dun Chos-'phel, 1903–1951) was an Amdo-born Gelugpa monk, scholar, and writer whose twelve years abroad in Nepal and India (c. 1934–1946) exposed him to anti-colonial politics and a wide range of modern Western and South Asian thought, producing the clearest personal synthesis of Buddhist monastic identity with anti-colonial and left-inflected reformist politics in Tibet. He moved...")
• 07:1607:16, 3 August 2026 Tibet (hist | edit) [18,196 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Tibet's twentieth-century history is defined by the tension between a centuries-old Buddhist theocracy and the political and economic pressures of the modern nation-state. Since the seventeenth century, the Gelugpa ("Yellow Hat") school's Ganden Photrang government fused religious and political authority under the Dalai Lama, resting economically on a monastic-aristocratic estate system worked by hereditarily bound peasants (''mi ser''). Repeated at...")

31 July 2026

• 23:2423:24, 31 July 2026 UG08ITO-T (hist | edit) [11,570 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Translation Review}} __NOEDITSECTION__ Uchiyama Gudō (1908). 「伊藤中將姦通觀」 [A View on Lieutenant General Itō's Adultery], 『世界婦人』　21 (1 January 1908): 7. (Original Japanese here.) ==Translation== '''A View on Lieutenant General Itō's Adultery''' :Uchiyama Gudō Madam Fukuda (福田女子)<ref>Fukuda Hideko (福田英子, 1865–1927), the addressee, was a prominent Meiji-era women's rights activist and former Freedom and P...")
• 23:1123:11, 31 July 2026 UG08ITO (hist | edit) [5,726 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Textual Verification}} Uchiyama Gudō (1908). 「伊藤中將姦通觀」 [A View on Lieutenant General Itō's Adultery], 『世界婦人』　21 (1 January 1908): 7. (English translation here.) <hr> 伊藤中將姦通觀 :内山愚童 福田女子足下はや今年も十五日を余すのみ と云ふ多忙の時とはなりました、二十號の 世界婦人、只今拜見、足下が天の使命を奉 じて暗黒なる婦人...")
• 05:2105:21, 31 July 2026 Uchiyama Gudo (hist | edit) [39,262 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Uchiyama Gudō}} Uchiyama Gudō (内山愚童; 1874–1911) was a Sōtō Zen (曹洞) priest, clandestine publisher, and anarcho-socialist activist of late Meiji-period Japan, and one of the earliest Buddhist clergy anywhere to argue in print that Buddhist doctrine and revolutionary socialism were in perfect agreement. As abbot of the small, impoverished mountain temple Rinsenji (林泉寺) near Hakone, he ran a hidden printing press...")

29 July 2026

• 23:2323:23, 29 July 2026 Ichikawa Hakugen (hist | edit) [30,277 bytes] Lajos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Ichikawa Hakugen (市川白弦, 1902–1986) was a Japanese Rinzai Zen (臨済宗) priest, philosopher, and activist who became the foremost internal critic of "Imperial-Way Zen" (皇道禅, kōdō Zen), the wartime alignment of Japanese Zen Buddhism with state militarism and emperor-centered ideology.<ref>Ives, Christopher (2009). ''Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics''. University of Hawai'i Pr...")