Also Not The Religion Of Peace

Lots of emails in response to yesterday's post about Tibet. As has been pointed out here in the past, the Dalai Lama has never condemned either the invasion of Afghanistan or the invasion of Iraq. But then, see the history of Tibet. Or see Burma, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Japan, Thailand...

In fact, an examination of the relevant texts shows that violence in general and war in particular are fundamental to Buddhism, admittedly a difficult thing to define, in the way that they are to Islam and at least arguably to Judaism, but simply are not, as a first principle, to Christianity.