Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory

Buddhism’s most crucial insight is that our individual suffering stems from three sources: greed, ill-will, and delusion, known as the three poisons. In this book, author scholar and Zen teacher David Loy explores how these poisons, embedded in society’s institutions, cause social maladies. The book offers a way individuals can counteract these to alleviate personal suffering and Loy boldly applies these teachings to institutions and even whole cultures for collective suffering reduction.

This book helps Buddhists and non-Buddhists understand the social importance of Buddhist teachings and provides a framework for applying spiritual principles to collective social issues. It shows how Buddhism can liberate our postmodern world from what the book identifies as anti-religious bias of contemporary social theory.

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