Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka

Stanley J. Tambiah · University of Chicago Press (1992)

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Tambiah — Sinhala Sri Lankan, world-leading anthropologist of Theravāda Buddhism — argued that the political instrumentalisation of Buddhism in 20th-century Sri Lanka represents a departure from, not a continuation of, classical Buddhist political ethics. The book's title is its argument. Critical for the TLTE position that the religion-state critique is INTERNAL to the Buddhist tradition, not an external attack on it. Pair with Bartholomeusz 1999 and Deegalle 2006.

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