Buddhism and War

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I have always thought of Buddhism as a way of life, not a religion. I mean, wars are fought over religions and religious difference, one would think that it would be impossible to fight a war over Buddhism. See, Buddhism is a way of life about getting to your higher purpose, compassion, forgiveness, and meditating and removing the emotion from the moment; it is all internal and has nothing to do with external glory, it is against external glory. But, it appears I was wrong.

I am reading a book called Buddha or Bust by Perry Garfinkle and much to my dismay, there is a war being fought over Buddhism. The Sri Lanka War is a fight between the Sinhalese (Buddhism side) and Tamils (Hindu side) and is ongoing today with propaganda on both sides and killing…

Kind of makes you question our chances for peace in the world when a whole way of life that’s whole mission in life is about peace can be in the middle of a war. But, they believe they are doing it for the right reasons.

http://www.tamilnation.org/indictment/index.htm

http://www.buddhistinformation.com/place_for_a_righteous_war_in_bud.htm

Posted on August 6th 2007 in MsTiara's Thoughts, Universe

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