[Buddha-l] Buddhist warfare

[Richard Hayes]

On Jul 31, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Curt Steinmetz wrote:

> In that diatribe Jerryson makes the ludicrous claim that D.T. Suzuki 
> participated in "a very successful form of propaganda" to hoodwink 
> westerners into believing that Buddhists eschew all forms of violence. 
> D.T. SUZUKI!?!?!? Think about that for a moment, and then decide for 
> yourself what possible worth their could be in any scholarly volume on 
> Buddhism and violence co-edited by this genius.

While I have not yet encountered anything at all that has made me feel that reading Jerryson's work would be a valuable use of time, I am too ignorant of D.T. Suzuki's work to be able to think for myself. Would you mind explaining what exactly makes Jerryson's claim about Suzuki ludicrous?

Richard