Why Are We Surprised When Buddhists Are Violent?
This presumption is evident in the reactions of astonishment many people have to events like those taking place in Myanmar. How, many wonder, could a Buddhist society — especially Buddhist monks! — have anything to do with something so monstrously violent as the ethnic cleansing now being perpetrated on Myanmar’s long-beleaguered Rohingya minority?
Kind of long article, but bottom line: Buddhists are human too, some better, some less good. As any religion, a lot of things are done in its name: some better, some less good.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/o...tolerance.html
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