Buddhism Betrayed?: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka

ISBN-13: 9780226789507 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 224 str.

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah; Lal Jayawardena

Opis

This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lanka-given Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophy-are able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.