Bhante Sujato: Why I am an Anarchist

Working Definitions

Anarchist and buddhist thought are both much too broad to simply slap them together and expect a coherent ideology or practice to emerge. I’m going to attempt a working definition of specifically which anarchisms and which buddhisms I’m using to get a clearer idea of what the resulting buddhist anarchism might look like. For myself, […]

Hakugen Ichikawa (市川白弦) and Buddhist Anarchist Communism

Made a (potentially) big discovery for english language buddhist anarchists! So far it’s been dreadfully difficult to find scholarship on any people who developed a coherent buddhist anarchist philosophy. Uchiyama Gudo or Gary Snyder are typically the go-to people associated with the idea, but neither did much political theorizing. Snyder wrote his short essay in […]

Commentary on Gary Snyder’s Buddhist Anarchism

My approach to understanding Anarchist-Buddhism is going to begin with re-tracing my own steps towards it. My starting place was Gary Snyder’s short essay, “Buddhist Anarchism”. I grew up as a kid in the suburbs of Seattle, fascinated with the natural world around me even as some of its last unmanaged holdouts were finally gobbled […]