... Buddhism, in which contemporary Tibetan religious authorities seek ways to reverse the social and cultural changes brought by the hegemonic state development project. However, their oppositional efforts ironically converge with those of state officials in guiding Tibetan herders to become neoliberal...

... Tibet Buddhism pastoralism neoliberal subjectivity ...

... Buddhism mental health violence forensic psychiatry prisons ...

... Thailand Buddhist melancholia Nang Nak feminist Buddhism agency ...

... The afterword discusses the author’s fortuitous meeting and friendship with David Kaczynski, and their common bonds of Buddhism, mental health advocacy, and their subsequent work together assisting trauma survivors. The author, a forensic psychiatrist, discusses the current challenges facing...

... The coda tweaks the question of Buddhism’s relation to sexuality still further by investigating notions of Buddhist-Muslim intimacy in the independent cinema of Thunska Pansittivorakul ( This Area Is under Quarantine , 2008). This film was produced in the context of the perpetual state...

... embodiment works in present-day cinema and policy, this analysis of Nang Nak interrogates the relations of haunting to historical injury and repair. The chapter shows how new forms of cinematic representation take recourse to Buddhism and parallel the ways in which sexual and economic sufficiency policies...