Buddhist Warfare

Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, "Buddhist Warfare"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2010 | ISBN: 0195394836 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB

Though traditionally regarded in the same manner with a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions transversely the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and equitable >war. The eight essays in this book focus on a multiplicity of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations hold used religious images and rhetoric to support military conquest throughout chronicle.

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 endorsed a Mongol rule's killing of his rivals. And in modern-day Thailand, Buddhist soldiers import out their duties undercover, as fully ordained monks armed with fire-arms.

Buddhist Warfare demonstrates that the discourse on religion and violence, usually applied to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, be able to no longer exclude Buddhist traditions. The book examines Buddhist military representation in Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, and shows that uniform the most unlikely and allegedly pacifist religious traditions are susceptible to the unjust tendencies of man.

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