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1. Buddhism and Violence

   Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia

   Edited by Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge