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In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka
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Product Description: This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort to religious stories that allow for war when Buddhism is in peril...read more
By Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
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Hardcover:

9780700716814 | Routledge, October 1, 2002, cover price $200.00

Paperback:

9780700716821 | Routledge, October 1, 2002, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory.

Miscellaneous:

9780203994801 | Routledge, August 22, 2002, cover price $59.95

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