[extropy-chat] Re: riots in France

[Samantha Atkins]

A few odds and ends on less than peaceful Buddhist activity follow.

http://www.darkzen.com/Articles/zenholy.htm
http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/6/bartho991.htm
http://www.berzinarchives.com/kalachakra/ 
holy_war_buddhism_islam_shambhala_long.html
http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/dalitism/dal000/budsinbk.html
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/15293.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0700716823?v=glance

Generally Buddhist teaching is markedly pacifist.  However many  
Buddhist leaders have supported various wars and on occasion Buddhist  
armies have been fielded.

- samantha

On Nov 11, 2005, at 7:01 PM, spike wrote:

>> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Jack Parkinson
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>> ... And every faith throughout history has
>> committed atrocities in those places where the clergy has gained
>> sufficient political power. The exception would have to be  
>> Buddhism...
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> This comment is worth exploring further.  Is it true that
> buddhism is always peaceful, even in its extreme?  I know
> of no examples of warlike buddhists, but I have witnessed
> firsthand extreme passivism by a buddhist.
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>> ... - although even
>> there, self-immolation is not unknown...
>> Jack Parkinson
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> So long as it is *self* immolation, I suppose that
> is their right to carry it out.  Religious extremists
> seem to be more interested in others-immolation.
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> spike
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