1. Associate Professor, Assistant to the Rector for Academic Affairs, Director of MA Program in Peace Studies, Mahachulalongkonrajavidyalaya University, Thailand. 2. From the research work entitled “Trends of Monk Roles in Thai Politics in the Next Two Decades”, Chulalongkorn University Center for Buddhist Studies, 2014
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1. Introduction 13 2. Roles of the Saṅgha in Thai politics: from absolute monarchy to democracy 19 3. Roles of the Saṅgha in Politics as evidenced in Theravada Buddhism 24 4. Trends of Roles of the Saṅgha in Thai Politics in the Next Two Decades 27 (1) The Saṅgha as a confl ict-managing engineer through peaceful Buddhist means 29 (2) The Saṅgha as an advocacy and political guide 30 (3) The Saṅgha as a developer of democratic civic citizenship 31 (4) The Saṅgha as a commentator exercising the right to criticize politicians and State policies 32 (5) The Saṅgha as a protestor making political demands 33 (6) The Saṅgha as individuals exercising voting rights 34 5. Recommendations 37 5.1 Recommendations to individual monks 37 5.2 Recommendations to Saṅgha institutions 38 5.3 Recommendations to politicians and political leaders 39 5.4 Recommendations to the Office of National Buddhism 41 5.5 Recommendations to Buddhist Universities 41 5.6 Recommendations to the mass media 42 5.7 Recommendations to the general Buddhist public 43 6. Suggestions of topics for future research 43 Bibliography 45
