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Buddhist warfare [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 257 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780199741380 (electronic bk.)
  • 0199741387 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Buddhist warfare.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/37273 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ4570.W3 B83 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Michael Jerryson -- Buddhism and war / Paul Demiéville -- Making merit through warfare according to the Ārya-Bodhisattva-gocara-upāyaviṣaya-vikurvaṇa-nirdeśa Sūtra / Stephen Jenkins -- Sacralized warfare : the fifth Dalai Lama and the discourse of religious violence / Derek F. Maher -- Legalized violence: punitive measures of Buddhist Khans in Mongolia / Vesna A. Wallace -- A Buddhological critique of "soldier-zen" in wartime Japan / Brian Daizen Victoria -- Buddhists in China during the Korean War (1951-1953) / Xue Yu -- Onward Buddhist soldiers: preaching to the Sri Lankan army / Daniel W. Kent -- Militarizing Buddhism: violence in southern Thailand / Michael Jerryson / Afterthoughts / Bernard Faure.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Michael Jerryson -- Buddhism and war / Paul Demiéville -- Making merit through warfare according to the Ārya-Bodhisattva-gocara-upāyaviṣaya-vikurvaṇa-nirdeśa Sūtra / Stephen Jenkins -- Sacralized warfare : the fifth Dalai Lama and the discourse of religious violence / Derek F. Maher -- Legalized violence: punitive measures of Buddhist Khans in Mongolia / Vesna A. Wallace -- A Buddhological critique of "soldier-zen" in wartime Japan / Brian Daizen Victoria -- Buddhists in China during the Korean War (1951-1953) / Xue Yu -- Onward Buddhist soldiers: preaching to the Sri Lankan army / Daniel W. Kent -- Militarizing Buddhism: violence in southern Thailand / Michael Jerryson / Afterthoughts / Bernard Faure.

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