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Title Ethnic conflict in Buddhist societies : Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Burma / edited by K.M. de Silva ... [and others]
Published London : Pinter ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1988

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Description 220 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction Ethnic conflict in Buddhist societies : Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma / K.M. de Silva -- Part I : Theoretical issues -- The logic of identity profiles and the ethic of communal violence : a Buddhist perspective / Padmasiri de Silva -- Of imagination and the state / Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- Minorities in Buddhist doctrine / P.D. Premasiri -- Part II : Buddhism, minorities and public policy -- Nationalism and the state in Sri Lanka / K.M. de Silva -- Minorities in Burmese history / Ronald D. Renard -- Nationalism and the state in Thailand / Likhit Dhiravegin -- Part III : Buddhist institutions and minorities -- Buddhist resurgence and Christian privlege in Sri Lanka, c.1940-1965 / K.N.O. Dharmadasa -- Impact of the Dhammacarik Bhikkhus' Programme on the hill tribes of Thailand / Sanit Wongsprasert -- Sri Lankan monks on ethnicity and nationalism / Nathan Katz -- Part IV : Case studies of minorities in Buddhist polities -- The Indian Tamil plantation workers in Sri Lanka : welfare and integration / S.W.R. de A. Samarasinghe -- Religious minorities in Burma in the contemporary period / Trevor O. Ling -- The lotus and the crescent : clashes of religious symbolisms in southern Thailand / Surin Pitsuwan -- Sri Lanka's Muslim minority / K.M. de Silva
Analysis Buddhism
Ethnic relations
Myanmar
Overseas item
South-east Asia Racial conflict
South-east Asia. Racial conflict
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Buddhism and state.
Buddhism -- Social aspects.
Ethnic conflict -- Burma.
Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka.
Ethnic conflict -- Thailand.
SUBJECT Myanmar http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80021691 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117162
Thailand http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059683 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
Author De Silva, K. M.
LC no. 88017405
ISBN 0813307430 (Westview Press)
0861879503