[Buddha-l] Religious violence, Buddhist violence

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 15:55 -0700, Joanna Kirkpatrick wrote:

> When it comes to Aum Shinrikyo, I'd etically critique its goals,
> practices and values without feeling any necessity to allude to
> its self-description as Buddhism.

I see no need to critique its goals. My approach is to describe their
goals as they state them and let people decide for themselves what they
think of them. I also do not see why one would not report the claim of
the group that it is Buddhist.



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Richard P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>
University of New Mexico