Title : PALI BUDDHIST IDEAS ABOUT THE FUTURE

Author(s) : Steven Collins

Pages : 17-22

Abstract in English : This article surveys ideas of the future?€”specifically whether it will be (i) worse, (ii) the same, or (iii) better, for individuals and/or society?€”in the Pali imaginaire, a corpus of texts produced and circulated in the agrarian states of premodern South and Southeast Asia and which survives as a resource for Buddhists in the vastly changed conditions of the modern, globalized world.