kotuwe Hamuduruwo Bana(Nalanda) - part 08 ( Sri Lanka Buddhism )

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Buddha preaced 'ahimsa' witth stronger emphasis than its other tenets. Is not this Ahimsa at variance with the violoence preached by most of the other religions - Christianity, Islam, even Hinduism,when a socalled 'good cause' cannot be won by peaceful mehods ? China and Japan fused their indigenous religions with 'imported',superiorBuddhism in order to reconcile this variance bet. earthly realism and spiritual idealism.SriLanka did not adapt its religion.Hence most pub office is held byXians.