The world has grown accustomed to a gentle image of Buddhism defined by the self-effacing words of the Dalai Lama, the global popularity of Buddhist-inspired meditation and postcard-perfect scenes from Southeast Asia and beyond of crimson-robed, barefoot monks receiving alms from villagers at dawn.
But over the past year, images of rampaging Burmese Buddhists carrying swords and the vituperative sermons of monks like Ashin Wirathu have underlined the rise of extreme Buddhism in Myanmar — and revealed a darker side of the country’s greater freedoms after decades of military rule. Buddhist lynch mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes.
We have been fed since long that Buddhists are one peaceful people.
Buddhists have been committing atrocities and violence for decades.
It is only the Hollywood mafia at behest of the US government who want to portray buddists as this mythical peaceful people in media lala land because they have an agenda against China and its treatment of Tibet and its people.
minorities are getting a good buggering all over. in the case of myanmar, the muslims are also of a different ethnicity (south asian rohingya) who allegedly aren't native to the burmese lands and are accused of being from whats now bangladesh who settled the rakhine province under the british rule there.