The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia Global ReportsISBN-13:9781967190003ISBN-10:1967190003UPC:9781967190003Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Asia, BuddhismBook Topic:Southeast AsiaSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCEDD5DCHR
The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia
When the robe becomes a weapon, who can stop the violence?
We think of Buddhism as a faith of peace--rooted in compassion, patience, and nonviolence. But across South and Southeast Asia today, the robe is being turned into a weapon as radical monks and nationalist movements unleash hatred and war.
In The Robe and the Sword, acclaimed journalist Sonia Faleiro travels from Sri Lanka's riot-scarred...
We think of Buddhism as a faith of peace--rooted in compassion, patience, and nonviolence. But across South and Southeast Asia today, the robe is being turned into a weapon as radical monks and nationalist movements unleash hatred and war.
In The Robe and the Sword, acclaimed journalist Sonia Faleiro travels from Sri Lanka's riot-scarred...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia Global ReportsISBN-13:9781967190003ISBN-10:1967190003UPC:9781967190003Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Asia, BuddhismBook Topic:Southeast AsiaSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCEDD5DCHR
Faleiro, Sonia: - Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, a New York Times Editor's Choice and finalist for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars, a finalist for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. Her reporting and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times,...
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