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