This book offers eight essays examining the dark side of a tradition often regarded as the religion of peace. The authors note the conflict between the Buddhist norms of non-violence and the prohibition of the killing of sentient beings and acts of state violence supported by the Buddhist community (sangha), acts of civil violence in which monks participate, and Buddhist intersectarian violence. INDICE: Introduction: Michael Jerryson: ; 1: Paul Demiéville: Buddhism and War; 2: Stephen Jenkins: Making Merit through Warfare; 3: Derek F. Mahler:Sacralized Warfare: The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Discourse of Religious Violence; 4: Vesna Wallace: Corporal Punishment during Mongolia's Theocratic Period; 5: Brian Victoria: A Buddhological Critique of 'Soldier Zen' in Wartime Japan; 6: Xue Yu: Buddhist Monks in China during the Korean War; 7: Daniel Kent: Sermons to Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army; 8: Michael Jerryson: Militarizing Buddhism: Violence in Southern Thailand; Bernard Faure: Concluding Remarks: Afterthoughts
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539483-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 268
- Fecha Publicación: 11/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés