Buddhist warfare [electronic resource] /
edited by Michael Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer.
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xi, 257 p.) : ill.
Description based on print version record.
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.