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   Dan Drake wrote:   
      
   >> As I said, I'm relatively IGNORANT of Buddhism, but have Buddhists   
   >> ever fought wars against each other or thrown each other into jail,   
   >> and worse?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Meaning, I assume, on claimed religious grounds.   
   >   
   > Yes, as I mentioned in another post.  The biggest temple in Kyoto   
   > would at intervals send out a raiding party to burn down a rival   
   > temple.   
      
   Yes is what interests me. Institutions based on texts and traditions seem   
   to take on lives of their own and often behave in ways that completely   
   contradict those texts and traditions, as here. But did Japanese   
   Buddhists burn their rivals as well as their rivals' temple, as   
   Christians did (mutatis mutandibus)? Some texts and traditions seem   
   easier to misinterpret than others...   
      
   > Buddhists don't seem to have done as much religious persecution as the   
   > various monotheists, but it's not clear that this statistical   
   > difference in worldly behavior has anything to do with an in-principle   
   > difference that would show up in behavior where everyone is SINCERE.   
      
   Surely there have been enough sincere Buddhists in 2,500 years, and   
   enough sincere Christians in 2,000, for us to reach some sort of   
   conclusion.   
      
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