Graham Priest

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So you can even though it's nominally a Buddhist state, you cannot claim that this is being driven by Buddhism.

Okay.

Um, so th that's one issue.

There are other places that have a state religion of uh Buddhism.

Tibet is the obvious example.

Tibet hasn't been exactly as brutal as Myanmar, but it's not exactly an egalitarian society.

It has a sort of priestly hierarchy and of many things run for the priesthood.

Um so that's not

nearly as bad as Myanmar, but it's hardly the utopian Buddhist society.

The one society I think which has made an attempt to implement Buddhist philosophy is Bhutan, which you may well have never heard of.

Okay?

It's a Himalayan kingdom to the east of um Nepal, which is at least normally driven by the desire to produce a happy society and the index of

uh the well being in society is not how well the economy is running but how happy people are.

Now okay, now you've reached my limit of knowledge about Bhutan.

How well this society runs, I have absolutely no idea.

I'd love to go there and find out.

But but the but the problem is I mean there isn't a model for what a good Buddhist political society is like.

You know, Buddhism has been implemented by kingdoms, by

religious hierarchies, by maybe not anarchist societies.

But I mean Buddhism it c tells you what the aim of a sensible society is like.

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