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+---
+title: "How Long Is a Lifetime?: Buddhadasa’s and Phra Payutto’s Interpretations of *Paṭiccasamuppāda* in Comparison"
+authors:
+  - "Martin Seeger"
+external_url: "https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/article/download/14022/24309"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v22i2.14022"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_PLoHjIFy-F9uc2SIh00Q9FYkhhq4P-w/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: thai
+tags:
+  - origination
+  - modern
+year: 2005
+month: may
+journal: bsr
+volume: 22
+number: 2
+pages: "107--130"
+openalexid: W3110901520
+---
+
+> In a lecture which he gave in his monastery on the 12th of June 1971,
+Buddhadāsa criticised this Three Lifetimes Theory with sharp words.
+He compared this
+presentation of *paṭiccasamuppāda* with ‘cancer, an incurable tumour of
+Buddhist scholarship’.

_content/articles/right-to-belong_nyrb.md

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+---
+title: "The Right to Belong"
+authors:
+  - "Atossa Araxia Abrahamian"
+external_url: "https://archive.is/pkWyP"
+source_url: "https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/12/17/statelessness-right-to-belong/"
+course: places
+tags:
+  - state
+  - social
+year: 2020
+month: dec
+journal: nyrb
+pages: 9
+---
+
+> Stateless people do not elect officials, enjoy diplomatic representation, or possess the lucre of a corporate lobby. Without political rights they can exert only so much pressure; activist groups, charities, and NGOs are their main source of support.
+This makes people without a citizenship uniquely vulnerable to exploitation

_content/articles/theravada-buddhism-and-political_lefferts-leedom-et-al.md

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+---
+title: "Theravada Buddhism and Political Engagement among the Thai-Lao of North East Thailand: The Bun Phra Wet Ceremony"
+authors:
+  - "Leedom Lefferts"
+  - "Sandra Cate"
+external_url: "https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=anth_pub"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.5367/sear.2012.0110"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oxYasr01_qIkpZ1j0ml40hNSzxFG9Cb5/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: isan
+tags:
+  - thai
+  - thai-ideology
+  - religion
+year: 2012
+month: sep
+journal: "South East Asia Research"
+volume: 20
+number: 3
+pages: "329--341"
+publisher: "Taylor & Francis"
+openalexid: W2066262085
+---
+
+> The
+millennial statements in the Bun Phra Wet, acted out by the people, make manifest their aspirations within the Thai state.
+The festival creates an imaginary, a
+way for Isaners to conceptualize a political system in which they fully participate.