LEADER 04339nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910815676303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-27707-2 010 $a1-283-60614-3 010 $a9786613918598 010 $a1-136-27708-0 010 $a0-203-11102-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203111024 035 $a(CKB)2670000000242248 035 $a(EBL)1024508 035 $a(OCoLC)811505732 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000742112 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11417000 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742112 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10745109 035 $a(PQKB)10599259 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1024508 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1024508 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10603626 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL391859 035 $a(OCoLC)811788780 035 $a(OCoLC)1190769863 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB133837 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000242248 100 $a20120203d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBuddhism and violence $emilitarism and Buddhism in modern Asia /$fedited by Vladimir Tikhonov and Torkel Brekke 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aNew York ;$aLondon $cRoutledge$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 225 0$aRoutledge studies in religion ;$v19 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-92189-0 311 $a0-415-53696-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Introduction: Dialectics of Violence and Non-Violence-Buddhism and Other Religions; PART I Nationalism and Militarism in Modern Asian Buddhisms; 1 Sinhala Ethno-nationalisms and Militarization in Sri Lanka; 2 Military Temples and Saffron-Robed Soldiers: Legitimacy and the Securing of Buddhism in Southern Thailand; 3 Reconsidering the Historiography of Modern Korean Buddhism: Nationalism and Identity of the Chogye Order of Korean Buddhism; PART II Militarism and the Buddhist Monks 327 $a4 A Path to Militant Buddhism: Thai Buddhist Monks as Representations5 Canonical Ambiguity and Differential Practices: Buddhism and Militarism in Contemporary Sri Lanka; 6 The Monks and the Hmong: The Special Relationship between the Chao Fa and the Tham Krabok Buddhist Temple in Saraburi Province, Thailand; 7 A Closer Look at Zen at War: The Battlefield Chaplaincy of Shaku So?en in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); PART III Buddhist Justifications for Peace and Militarism; 8 Question of Violence in Thai Buddhism; 9 Buddhism and the Justification of War with Focus on Chinese Buddhist History 327 $a10 Anti-War and Peace Movements among Japanese Buddhists after the Second World War11 Violent Buddhism-Korean Buddhists and the Pacific War, 1937-1945; Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index 330 $aIt is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a 'peaceful' religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western standards of 'peaceful' behavior. This stereotype - which may well be termed 'positive Orientalism,' since it is based on assumption that an 'Oriental' religion would be more faithful to its original non-violent teachings than Western Christianity - has been periodically challenged by enthusiastic ac 410 0$aRoutledge Studies in Religion 606 $aViolence$zAsia$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 606 $aMilitarism$zAsia$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 606 $aMilitarism$zAsia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMilitarism$zAsia$xHistory$y21st century 615 0$aViolence$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 615 0$aMilitarism$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 615 0$aMilitarism$xHistory 615 0$aMilitarism$xHistory 676 $a294.3/37273 676 $a294.337 676 $a294.337273 701 $aTikhonov$b Vladimir$01597851 701 $aBrekke$b Torkel$0853973 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815676303321 996 $aBuddhism and violence$93919784 997 $aUNINA