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Title: BUDDHISM BETRAYED?
RELIGION, POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA
By: Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Format: Hardback

List price: £52.50


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ISBN 10: 0226789497
ISBN 13: 9780226789491
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 1 May, 1992
Pages: 224
Description: This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lanka--given Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophy--are able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.
Synopsis: This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lanka--given Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophy--are able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.
Illustrations: 9 halftones
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Returns: Returnable
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