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'The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia': An unquiet silence
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Sonia Faleiro’s The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia follows a spectre that is haunting parts of South Asia — radical Buddhism, which many would see as a contradiction in terms. Buddhism has, in public thinking and discourse, been associated with peace and non-violence, and the Middle Path that shuns extremes. But Sonia recounts the transformation of the religion into a militant faith, mixed up with racial or national identities or both, directed against minoriti
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