A 2000-word (excluding bibliography) discussion paper based on the material used in your annotated bibliography will be due on June 12th by 5:00 pm. Your paper needs to use a standard 12-point font an

A 2000-word (excluding bibliography) discussion paper based on the material used in your annotated bibliography will be due on June 12th by 5:00 pm. Your paper needs to use a standard 12-point font and 1-inch margins and utilize at least 20 separate scholarly sources (distributed as a minimum of 15 journal articles and a minimum of 5 books). Newspaper, newsweeklies and other journalistic sources may be used but they do not count toward the 20 source minimum. Websites, such as the CIA Fact book, may be used but do not count toward the minimum. Your paper will be submitted to plagiarism detection software. You may not use Wikipedia as a source.

Focus on the political questions related to how Buddhism affects interstate politics.