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Pages: 270
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-08 - Publisher: OUP USA

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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
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Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Michael Jerryson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have san
Buddhist Warfare
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Michael Jerryson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have san
Zen at War
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Categories: History
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A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support o
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Michael Jerryson
Categories: Religion
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It is said that the famous ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan told his disciples, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." The deliberately