Buddhism Betrayed? : Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka (Wider)

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Summary: This book compleatly misleads people....
Review: I have red this book and I think this book compleatly mislead people about Buddhism and Sri Lankan comunity. For a person who wants to find out more about Sri Lanka and Buddhism (The truth I mean) there are lots of books. I think that the Tamils who started the war and whole word knows it. Buddhists are normally peaceful people and Tamil Tigers and people who support them like this one hate Buddhists.....Please get a life....

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Summary: This book is baised, but it has a lot of valid points
Review: While this book is one sided, to blame the Tamils for the Sri Lankan violence is propaganda. I have known people from Sri Lanka who use Dharma talks to promote violence. Not that the Tamils are innocent either, but it is full hearty to think that the Buddhist community is univerally peaceful. As a someone who has studied and been around Buddhist culture most of his life, I find the over idealization of the Dharma disturbing and can lead to dangerous justifications of various actions in Buddhist history. I encourage people to read this book for that reason.