Buddhist Warfare

by Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor), Michael Jerryson (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $227.85

  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.