Buddhist Warfare

Name: Buddhist Warfare
Price: 21.48 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780195394849

ISBN-10: 0195394844

ISBN-13: 9780195394849

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael K. Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer

List price: $31.95

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $36.70

Marketplace

4 new & used from $21.48

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Buddhism has played significant role in the current global rise in religious nationalism and violence, but the violent aspects of Buddhist tradition have been neglected in the outpouring of academic analyses and case studies of this disturbing trend. 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. They consider contemporary and historical cases…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction




Buddhism and War




Making Merit through Warfare According to the &Abar;rya-Bodhisattva-gocara-up&abar;yavi&sbdot;aya-vikurva&nbdot;a-nirde&sacute;a S&ubar;tra




Sacralized Warfare: The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Discourse of Religious Violence




Legalized Violence: Punitive Measures of Buddhist Khans in Mongolia




A Buddhological Critique of "Soldier-Zen" in Wartime Japan




Buddhists in China during the Korean War (1951-1953)




Onward Buddhist Soldiers: Preaching to the Sri Lankan Army




Militarizing Buddhism: Violence in Southern Thailand



Afterthoughts



Appendix


Bibliography


Index