Compassionate Violence?:
On the Ethical Implications of Tantric Buddhist Ritual

By David B. Gray

33 pages

… several Buddhist commentators, in advancing the notion of “compassionate violence,” also advanced an ethical double standard

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Published in 2007 in The Journal of Buddhist Ethics.

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    title={{C}ompassionate {V}iolence?: {O}n the {E}thical {I}mplications of {T}antric {B}uddhist {R}itual},
    author={David B. Gray},
    year=2007,
    journal={The Journal of Buddhist Ethics},
    volume=14,
    pages={239--271},
    keywords={tantric,power,violence,wrathful-deities},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/compassionate-violence_gray-david}
}

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