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.

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