Buddhist Warfare
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Michael Jerryson / Mark Juergensmeyer
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It is a well-known fact that the first of all the commandments of the Buddhist creed is “Thou shalt not kill” but Chinese books contain various passages relating to Buddhist monks who freely indulged in carnage and butchery and took an active part in military expeditions of every description, thus leaving no room for doubt that warfare was an integrate part of their religious profession for centuries. —J. J. M. de Groot, 1891
contenuti
Introduction - Michael Jerryson
Chapter One: Buddhism and War - Paul Demiéville
Chapter Two: Making Merit through Warfare - Stephen Jenkins
Chapter Three: Sacralized Warfare: The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Discourse
of Religious Violence - Derek F. Mahler
Chapter Four: Corporal Punishment during Mongolia's Theocratic Period - Vesna Wallace
Chapter Five: A Buddhological Critique of 'Soldier Zen' in Wartime Japan 148 - Brian Victoria
Chapter Six: Buddhist Monks in China during the Korean War - Xue Yu
Chapter Seven: Sermons to Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army - Daniel Kent
Chapter Eight: Militarizing Buddhism: Violence in Southern Thailand - Michael Jerryson
Concluding Remarks: Afterthoughts - Bernard Faure
Appendix
Bibliography