[Buddha-l] Nalanda's library destruction

[James A Stroble]

On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:53:48 -0600
"Jo" <ugg-5 at spro.net> wrote:

> 
> Andy, You apparently ignore my posts. Not surprised.  As I've noted
> before, it's an all- male extravaganza.   
> On 5/13 I commented on lethal force as suicide topic, concerning
> monks who "used the knife" and the Buddha's views about those cases: 
> 
> "...isn't it the case in the Pali suttas that those monks who
> committed suicide did it because they were extremely ill and
> suffering uncontrollable pain? It's not as though they committed
> suicide to save face or restore some kind of honor, to take revenge,
> or any of the various other cultural rationales for suicide."
> 
> Why not visit the list archive? We've been over this topic before. 
> 
> Joanna
>  
Sorry, Joanna! 

But if the line in the Nirvana Sutra does not refer to suicide, then
violence against others is indicated?   Doesn't seem right to me, since
is suicide for these various cultural reasons is not allowed in
Buddhism, it would seem that homicide for those reasons would be
impermissible as well.  

And yes, we have been over this before, and probably will be again. 
-- 
Yours, 

James Andy Stroble
Leeward Community College