This site is an adaptation of a specific teacher's words from a specific tradition — not anonymous, original, or generic "wisdom." Honest attribution is part of the deliverable. Here is the full chain of provenance.
- The teaching
- Management Principles the Buddhist Way — หลักการบริหารตามพุทธวิธี
- The teacher
- Phra Bhavana Viriyakhun — พระภาวนาวิริยคุณ — known as Luang Por Dattajivo (ordained name Phadet Dattajivo / เผด็จ ทตฺตชีโว). At the time of the interview, Vice-Abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
- The original source
- An interview conducted by the editorial board of the Business Administration Journal (วารสารบริหารธุรกิจ), Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Thammasat University — published in issue 47, July–September 1988 (B.E. 2531).
- This booklet
- The interview was reprinted, with permission, as a booklet by Graphic Art Printing Co., Ltd. and distributed free of charge as a dhamma gift (ธรรมบรรณาการ). ISBN 974-89320-9-5. Rights with the Dhammakaya Foundation. The scanned copy carries the watermark of the digital archive kalyanamitra.org.
- This English edition
- A faithful translation and adaptation into English, prepared for analytically-minded readers who are not assumed to be Buddhist. The interview's question-and-answer structure is preserved. Editorial additions — chapter intros, key-takeaway boxes, analytical-lens callouts, and pragmatic (belief-optional) glosses — are the adapter's and are kept visually distinct from the translated text throughout, as described in How to read this.
The source is a scanned publication. Its embedded text layer proved substantially recoverable, and the reconstruction was cross-checked against the rendered page images; the tradition's claims and the teacher's voice are kept intact rather than secularized away. Points that could not be read with confidence, and the editorial decisions behind this edition, are listed in the README that accompanies these files.
With gratitude to Luang Por Dattajivo, to the editorial board of the Thammasat Business Administration Journal, and to the tradition that distributed this teaching freely so that it could be read at all.