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The King as the Embodiment of Egotism
| Title: | The King as the Embodiment of Egotism
| | Author: | Lang, Karen C. | | Publication: | Four Illusions / OSO Monographs | | Enumeration: | vol. 1, no. 9, pp. 88-110, March 2003 | | Abstract: | The Mahbharata and the Ramayana, as well as Indian legal and political treatises, support belief in the king's divinity. Buddhists regard kingship not as divinely inspired, but as an elective process. Legitimate moral authority and the right to govern belong only to righteous kings, who govern with generosity and compassion. Unrighteous kings, ruling in the age of discord (kali yuga), allow passion to dominate their behavior. They devastate the world through their exercise of war. Candrakiriti rejects both divine origins of kings and the notion that heaven is the reward for a royal warrior who dies in battle. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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