Buddhist Theravada Concept towards the Political

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The article have an objective to study Buddhist Theravada concept towards the political. Buddhist social philosophy is involving with brief, presented a systematic and functional framework for fashioning a pattern of social relations that was attuned to the needs and demands of the new social milieu, especially the political culture of the rising ‘new middle class’ at the time of the Buddha. A distinctive feature of the monastic community, over and above the social and moral dimension of Buddhist practice, was its rules and procedures for the management of the monastic community. The monastic community was governed and regulated by a well-formulated code of conduct or the Vinaya, which formed an integral part of the Buddhist Compendium, enumerating the rules and procedures governing the structure and functioning of the monastic community.