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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-14 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-08 - Publisher: OUP USA
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
Language: en
Pages: 310
Pages: 310
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-22 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support o
Language: en
Pages: 278
Pages: 278
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Routledge
It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a 'peaceful' religion. This volume demolishes this stereotype, and produces instead a coherent account of
Language: en
Pages: 65
Pages: 65
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:
Myanmar's transition to democracy has been marred by violence between Buddhists and Muslims. While the violence originally broke out between Rakhine Buddhists a