Ultranationalist Buddhist Rhetoric in Sri Lanka

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Nursheila Muez, Lin, Jessica Yeo Jia
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Commentary
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: East Asia and Asia Pacific; General
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88327; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44600

Anti-Muslim sentiments in Sri Lanka can be attributed to the spread of ultranationalist Buddhist rhetoric propagated by Buddhist extremist groups which use Buddhism to justify their narrative. The ambivalent nature of religion allows it to be interpreted by its adherents both as a source of violence...