Sulak Sivaraksa, founder of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists and winner of the 1995 Right Livelihood Award, takes on such issues as the "religion of consumerism," indicating solutions to a wide range of political, economic, and social problems. "Seeds of Peace offers his most passionate writings.

Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society, Sulak Sivaraksa, Parallax Press, Paperback, 129 pp, $12.00

Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama xi
Editor's Introduction by Tom Ginsburg xi
Notes and Acknowledgments xv
PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF GREED
Chapt. 1 The Religion of Consumerism
Chapt. 2 A Thai Monologue with Japan
Chapt. 3 The Think-Big Strategy of Development
Chapt. 4 Quantifying Development
Chapt. 5 Development as if People Mattered
PART TWO: PERSONAL AND SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION
Chapt. 6 Religion and Social Change
Chapt. 7 Buddhism with a Small b
Chapt. 8 The Five Moral Precepts
Chapt. 9 Buddhism and Nonviolence
Chapt.10 Buddhist Women--Past and Present
Chapt.11 A Buddhist Model of Society
APPENDICES
APPENDIX ONE Regression of Democracy in Siam
APPENDIX TWO Why I Chose to Resist the NPKC
SAMPLE CHAPTER
CHAPTER ELEVEN
A BUDDHIST MODEL OF SOCIETY