[Buddha-l] China Tibet (self-immolations)

[Margaret Gouin]

From: buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com [buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Joseph O'Leary [josephsoleary at hotmail.com]
Sent: 10 November 2012 23:28
I was talking in Strasburg the other day about sacrifice in Buddhism and mentioned the Vietnam immolations and some western imitators but I did not know about Tibetan ones. Please tell me more. (I am totally opposed to religious suicide.)
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Joseph,
This is a good website to start from: http://www.culanth.org/?q=node%2F526 There are short articles and lots of links.
If you look back through the Buddha-L archives you may also find some references to articles. 
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Margaret Gouin, PhD (Bristol)
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies
University of Wales Trinity Saint David