This is a quite academic book about Buddhism in modern day Asia. It gives a brief introduction to several different approaches of modern application of Buddhism. It starts with the Ambedkarite Movement in India and ends with the Soka Gakkai in Japan. Well worth reading，especially if you think that Buddhism is a pessimistic religion.
Engaged Buddhism presents ordained and lay Buddhist activists like Thich Nhat Hanh of Vietnam，Buddhadasa Bhikkhu and Sulak Sivaraksa of Thailand，A. T. Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya Shramadana movement of Sri Lanka, Daisaku Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai movement of Japan，followers of the Indian Untouchable leader，Dr. B. R. Ambedkar，and Buddhist women throughout Asia.
These leaders have campaigned relentlessly，attracted and organized millions of new converts, faced death threats, landed in jail，founded schools and universities, and produced a massive new Buddhist literature to restore social and economic justice to their societies.
