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Originally Posted by mother engine
this post is NOT intended to cause an uproar but there is one thing question i never got around to posing in the closed thread 'slayers of god' that i am interested in knowing about. when religion is attacked for being the cause of violence one must factor in buddhism which is technically a religion. from what i understand buddhists have been persecuted by members of the chinese government but have not caused any violence towards others in noted history. any evidence to the contrary?
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I found this when I searched, which is what I remembered studying, but didn't remember the source. It bascially says that killing is against Buddhism, and to do so would invlove the priest losing his robes...
http://www.bodydharma.org/choices/vi...sivaraksa.html
In all of Buddhist history, there has never been a holy war. Surely Buddhist kings have waged war against one another, and they may even have claimed to be doing so for the benefit of humankind or the Buddhist religion, but they could not quote any saying of the Buddha to support them. The Buddha was quite clear in his renunciation of violence: "Victory creates hatred. Defeat creates suffering. The wise ones desire neither victory nor defeat... Anger creates anger... He who kills will be killed. He who wins will be defeated... Revenge can only be overcome by abandoning revenge... The wise seek neither victory nor defeat."
[Reprinted from Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society (1992) by Sulak Sivaraksa with permission of Parallax Press, Berkeley, California,
www.Parallax.org ]
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