In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka

Tessa Bartholomeusz · Routledge (2002, articles 1999–2001)

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Bartholomeusz's study of the Mahāvaṃsa Duṭugämuṇu narrative and its modern political deployment as a 'just-war' template. Documents how a chronicle composed in the 5th–6th centuries CE has been operationalised into a 20th-century political-theological frame justifying military action 'in defence of the dharma.' Pair with Tambiah 1992 for the internal-Buddhist critique.

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