From Monks to Politicians: Transformation of Buddhism from the Social to Political Sphere in Sri Lanka
This paper seeks to examine how ‘political Buddhism’ got imbedded into the political system itself unlike in other predominantly Buddhist countries, and why it is possible for Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism to pose as a modern political response to a whole array of local social and global forces, enabled, paradoxically, by the institution of majoritarian democracy and the growing tyranny of the majority?