TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jerryson,Michael K.
AU  - Juergensmeyer,Mark
TI  - Buddhist warfare
SN  - 9780199741380
AV  - BQ4570.W3 B83 2010eb
U1  - 294.3/37273 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - War
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Violence
KW  - Guerre
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index; Introduction / Michael Jerryson -- Buddhism and war / Paul Demiéville -- Making merit through warfare according to the Ārya-Bodhisattva-gocara-upāyaviṣaya-vikurvaṇa-nirdeśa Sūtra / Stephen Jenkins -- Sacralized warfare : the fifth Dalai Lama and the discourse of religious violence / Derek F. Maher -- Legalized violence: punitive measures of Buddhist Khans in Mongolia / Vesna A. Wallace -- A Buddhological critique of "soldier-zen" in wartime Japan / Brian Daizen Victoria -- Buddhists in China during the Korean War (1951-1953) / Xue Yu -- Onward Buddhist soldiers: preaching to the Sri Lankan army / Daniel W. Kent -- Militarizing Buddhism: violence in southern Thailand / Michael Jerryson / Afterthoughts / Bernard Faure
N2  - Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military conquest throughout history. Buddhist soldiers in sixth century China were given the illustrious status of Bodhisattva after killing their adversaries. In seventeenth century Tibet, the Fifth Dalai Lama endo
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