The present paper is about religious violence that related to Buddhism. The educated Buddhists and the academic Buddhist scholars are invited to be her target audience. Although the popular image of Buddhism is always assumed, by the insider and the outsider, as an exceptional religion in the human history that rarely, if not never, related to religious violence, the international scholarship since the last decade clearly indicates that such beautiful, yet mistaken, image is groundless. Buddhism has involved in all forms of religious violence as much as other main religious traditions do. This paper is composed of two parts. Part 1 is a critical and provocative analysis, to challenge the commonly assumed, yet groundless, claim that Buddhism is free from religious violence. Part 2 is a concise literature review on the modern scholarship of the Buddhist religious violence from all the three main Buddhist traditions.
