One drop of fresh water in a sea.

And we should not account all martial arts as Buddhist practice. :-)

To Carrol's comment: "This is just a vague memory, & I don't remember the
source: A Buddhist
king created a mountain of skulls of enemies of Buddhism."

It looks like one of those imaginary stories in Tibetan Buddhism. The
enemies here always imply the bitter nature in Tibet. They were written to
emphasize the power of human beings.


Hongguang



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<A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/war/buddhism.shtml">Click
here: BBC - Religion & Ethics of War</A>

Buddhism and violence
Buddhism, like the other great faiths, has not always lived up to its
principles - there are numerous examples of Buddhists engaging in violence
and even war:
in the 14th century Buddhist fighters led the uprising that evicted the
Mongols from China


in Japan, Buddhist monks trained Samurai warriors in meditation that made
them better fighters


In the twentieth century Japanese Zen masters wrote in support of Japan's
wars of aggression. For example, Sawaki Kodo (1880–1965) wrote this in 1942:
> "It is just to punish those who disturb the public order. Whether one
kills
> or does not kill, the precept forbidding killing [is preserved]. It is the
> precept forbidding killing that wields the sword. It is the precept that
> throws the bomb."

In Sri Lanka the 20th century civil war between the mostly Buddhist
Sinhalese
majority and the Hindu Tamil minority has cost 50,000 lives.







They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.

Constant apprehension of war has the same tendency
to render the head too large for the body.  A standing military
force with an overgrown executive will not long be safe.
companions to liberty.  -- Thomas Jefferson


"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and
disinformed
by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say
corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't
want us to know."

Gore Vidal