Sulak's speeches
Ajan Sulak Sivaraksa has given speeches on many subjects
throughout his career in English and Thai languages, of which there
is now an extensive archive. Here is a selection of English
speeches from this archive. Currently this section provides limited information about each speech
- but we shall soon expant this to be more usefull width Where? Why and
to Who? the e is given.
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A Buddhist Response to the Age of “Globalization”
Sometimes I feel that globalization is not really an accurate descriptor of the age we are said to be living in. The word ‘globalization’ is at best too socially neutral, at worse highly misleading and deceptive. Sometimes I prefer catchwords such as “free market fundamentalism” and “extreme modernism” to “globalization.”...
BuddhistResponseGlobalization.doc (38KB MS Word Document)
BuddhistResponseGlobalization.pdf (21.6KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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A Very Simple Magic
| Date: August 17, 2001 |
Place: Ideas at the Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia |
Lotus44.doc (42.5KB MS Word Document)
Lotus44.pdf (17.2KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Action and Solidarity Challenging Globalization
ASEM2000.doc (35KB MS Word Document)
ASEM2000.pdf (13.1KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Alternatives to consumerism - a Buddhist
programme
ATC.doc (71KB MS Word Document)
ATC.pdf (27.2KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Buddhism and the Challenge of Modernity in the 21st Century
| Place: World Visions, Dialogue of Civilizations, FES Colloquium 2002, Morocco |
BuddhismModernity.doc (48KB MS Word Document)
BuddhismModernity.pdf (27.3KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Literature and the Fate of Humankind
Lotus46.doc (68.5KB MS Word Document)
Lotus46.pdf (15.9KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Peace, Nonviolence and Democracy in Burma: Voices from India
| Date: March 30, 2001 |
Place: India International Centre, New Delhi, India |
Keynote Address by Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa at the conference on "Peace, Nonviolence and Democracy in Burma: Voices from India", held on 30th and 31st March, 2001.
peace-nonviolence-and-democracy-in-Burma.doc (31.5KB MS Word Document)
peace-nonviolence-and-democracy-in-Burma.pdf (10.6KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Speech on the Opening Ceremony of the Sri Burapha Conference Hall
| Date: March 21, 2005 |
Place: Thammasat University |
Past and present members of Thammasat University should be proud that an alumnus who had steadfastly stood for the cause of peace and democracy even if that entailed the periodic deprivation of personal freedom and lifelong exile is now being recognized by UNESCO as an important world personality. On the auspicious occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth on 31 March 2005 and at the university in which a new conference hall bearing his penname "Sri Burapha" is situated we are rightly venerating the venerable � a truly meritorious act.
sriburapha.doc (32.5KB MS Word Document)
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The Citation for Anwar Ibrahim
| Date: February 13, 2000 |
Place: International Seminar
"Globalization, Cultures and Religions," Israel. |
Round Table Discussion
OnAnwar.doc (30.5KB MS Word Document)
OnAnwar.pdf (9.7KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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The Digital Divide
| Date: October 9, 2001 |
Place: AIT Bangkok |
At a Round table discussion: "Digital Divide in the Mekong Sub-region,", sulak gave this short speech answering the claim of "Some so-called gurus of the information age" that the internet can solve the problems of the third world.
TheDigitalDivide.doc (27KB MS Word Document)
TheDigitalDivide.pdf (8KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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The Real Crisis in the Present World
| Date: October 20, 2001 |
Place: Thailand Islamic Centre |
This is an edited version of a speech given in Thai at the Thailand Islamic Centre. It was published in the Bangkok Post with the title "Pious principles be damned" on 24 November 2001.
The-Real-Crisis-in-the-Present-World.doc (38KB MS Word Document)
The-Real-Crisis-in-the-Present-World.pdf (14.9KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Untitled
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves..."
TheConquestOfTheEarth.doc (77.5KB MS Word Document)
TheConquestOfTheEarth.pdf (48.7KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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Venerating Maha Sila Viravon
| Date: June 16, 2005 |
Place: Loas |
0n the grand opening of the library today, we must bear three things in mind. What are there?
VeneratingMahaSilaViravon.doc (33.5KB MS Word Document)
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Visioning New Life Together Among Asian Religions
| Date: August 5, 2001 |
Place: Confernece of Asian Theologians III (CATS III), Yogyakarta, Indonesia |
CATSIII.doc (29KB MS Word Document)
CATSIII.pdf (14.6KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
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For further information about Sulak's speeches please contact the
Santi-Pracha Dammha Institute at:
[email protected]
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