But Is It Buddhist?

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How to Cite: Marpet, B. (2021). But Is It Buddhist?. Buddhist Studies Review, 38(1), 69–78. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.43217

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In If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence, Michael Jerryson reports that his research on Buddhist violence frequently elicits two responses. The first is that the violence he has analyzed is not really Buddhist because true Buddhists are non-violent. The second is that instances of putatively Buddhist violence are not really Buddhist because they are ultimately about something besides religion, such as ethnicity, politics, or economics. This paper offers a thoroughgoing refutation of both of these responses. First, there is no principled way to establish the claim that true Buddhists are non-violent. Second, the claim that putatively Buddhist violence is ultimately about something besides religion does not provide reason against classifying the violence as “Buddhist.”

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  • container title
    Buddhist Studies Review
  • creator
    Blaze Marpet
  • issn
    1747-9681 (online)
  • original publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • original publisher place
    Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • volume
    38.1
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