Introduction
Sallie B. King
Part I The Ancient Buddhist World
1. A Map of the Good Life: The Thirty-Eight Blessings of the Mangala Sutta
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
2. Compassion Blesses the Compassionate: The Basis of Human Flourishing in Buddhist Thought and Practice
Stephen Jenkins
Part II The Contemporary Buddhist World
3. Ambedkar's Buddhist Vision: A Social Democratic Republic
Christopher Queen
4. The Good Life as Envisioned by A.T. Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya Movement
George D. Bond
5. The Development of Wellbeing: Gross National Happiness and Bhutan's Vision for the Ideal Society
Barbra Clayton
6. The Good Life: A Tibetan Understanding
Jay L. Garfield
7. Venerable Pomnyun's Jungto Society: A Buddhist Activist Movement in South Korea
Sujung Kim
8. Thich Nhat Hanh and the Nonviolent Society
Sallie B. King
9. Tzu Chi: Buddhist Compassion Relief and the Bodhisattva Path to a Good Society
Richard Madsen
10. Japan's Soka Gakkai: Transforming the Human Spirit to Save Humanity from Itself
Daniel A. Metraux
11. Gary Snyder's Vision
Christopher Ives
12. Mutual Morality: Joanna Macy's Vision of the Great Turning
Stephanie Kaza