If Buddha was a leader of a country RIGHT now?

Question

What kind of government would that country be?Which political power?

Answer 1

He would most certainly distance himself fom the politics of that country and have other 'Arahants' take on that role. His only interest would be for the teaching for enlightenment and salvation of the people. It would be such an advanced society, spiritually, that the type of politics would have advanced beyond what we can really understand. There may even be little use for a government at all. Or a leader.

Answer 2

I'm not a Buddhist, so I've got no axe to grind. The king of Bhutan seems to me a lot like Buddha. He's recently offered to end his monarchy and turn his Himalayan country into a democracy, with elections, if that's what his people want, even though he's not under any pressure to do so. How many heads of state in history have ever done that? Bhutan is the only country in the world to have completely banned the sale of tobacco. He has introduced a national happiness index, instead of GDP, as a measure of well-being, for making policy decisions. Google national happiness index to learn more. To cut a long story short, more consumption and more choice haven't resulted in more happiness; some respectable studies by western psychologists have indicated this. Buddhism teaches that the key to well-being involves renouncing greed, aggression and exploiting others.

Answer 3

In the periods governing the ruling times of religious leaders, albeit, Buddha, Christian, Muslim etc. the world was a very different place to what it is today. No infrastructure existed / nothing existed compared with what we have today. From a purely logical standpoint, how therefore can any such comparisons be accountably made?

Answer 4

I think Buddha and Sweden sounds right - friendly, welcome's all, totally neutral.

Answer 5

He would eat all the food and his people would starve.