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In Defense of Dharma:Just-War Ideiology in Buddhist Sri Lanka |
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Author |
Bartholomeusz, Tessa J.
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Date | 2002.08.22 |
Pages | 232 |
Publisher | RoutledgeCurzon Press=Routledge=Curzon Press |
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http://www.routledge.com/
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Series | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism |
Content type | 書籍=Book |
Language | 英文=English |
Keyword | Buddhist Ethics; war; Sri Lanka Buddhist history=錫蘭佛教史=斯里蘭卡佛教史; Theravada Buddhist history=南傳佛教史 |
Abstract | This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual,historical and anthropological,it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort to religious stories that allow for war when Buddhism is in peril. Though Buddhism is commonly assumed to be a religion that never allows for war,this study suggests otherwise,thereby bringing Buddhism into the ethical dialogue on religion and war. Without a realistic consideration of just-war thinking in contemporary Sri Lanka, it will remain impossible to understand the power of religion there to create both peace and war.
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Table of contents | 1. Narratives, Ethics and War 2. Just-War Thinking in Texts and Contexts 3. Dharma Yuddhaya and Dharma Warriors in Sri Lanka 4. Buddhism,Pacifism,War and Ethical Orientations 5. Sri Lankan Buddhism and Just-War Thinking Revisited |
ISBN | 0700716815; 0700716823 |
Hits | 357 |
Created date | 2000.10.24
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Modified date | 2014.05.19 |
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