ePub The Cultural Transition: Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan by From Routledge in History

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This thesis examines the doctrinal grounds and different approaches to working out this "new Buddhist tradition;" a startling contrast to the teachings of non-violence and compassion which have made Buddhism known as a religion of peace. In scores of articles as war approached in 1936-37; new monks searched and reinterpreted scripture; making controversial arguments for ideas like "compassionate killing" which would justify participating in war.