Analysis: How to reverse Buddhism’s radical turn in Southeast Asia? BANGKOK - Influential Buddhist monks in Myanmar have been aggravating longstanding tensions between the country’s Buddhist and Muslim communities since violence erupted between the two groups in 2012, say experts. “The Burmese Buddhist monks may not have initiated the violence but they rode the wave and began to incite more,” said Michael Jerryson, a religious studies professor and co-editor of Buddhist Warfare, a recent 2010 publication examining the violent side of Buddhism in Southeast Asia and how Buddhist organizations there have used religious images and rhetoric to support “military conquest”. Read more: bit.ly/14Z0RTR
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:23:21 +0000
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