[Buddha-l] Dharmapala, redux

[andy]

On Tuesday 03 August 2010 11:20:26 am Stuart Lachs wrote:
> Andy wrote:
> 
. Yes, there is a
> > tradition
> > of protectors of the Dharma who certainly appear to be violent, and yes,
> > there
> > is a tradition of Buddhists sanctioning violence by their patrons, but I
> > do
> > not see how this works doctrinally. 
> 
> Vladimir Tikhanov at the University of Oslo has an interesting paper titled
> "Violent Buddhism - Korean Buddhists and the Pacific War, 1937-1945" that
> deals with Buddhism, war, profit, the secular gov't.
> and the like. The paper can be accessed from
> http://tikhonovkoreanstudies.net/blog/2009/10/paper_on_buddhist_collaborati
> o.html.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Stuart
> 
Thanks, Stuart!   Looks like an interesting paper. 

Tikhanov has also reviewed _Buddhist Warfare_  on H-Net, evidently at the 
commission of Dan Lusthaus! 
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29747


-- 
James Andy Stroble