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Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Buddhism Betrayed?

Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka

With a Foreword by Lal Jayawardena
224 pages, 9 halftones  5-1/2 x 8-1/2  © 1992

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226789491   Published July 1992

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226789507   Published July 1992

This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lanka—given Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophy—are able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.
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