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Spring 2014 Vol. 30 #2

Spring 2014 Vol. 30 #2

Features | Self-Immolation & Tibet

Resource Materials on Self-Immolation

By Alan Senauke

BOOKS

James A. Benn—Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism. University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Thomas Merton—Blessed Are the Meek: The Christian Roots of Nonviolence. Catholic Peace Fellowship, 1967.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Thich Quang Duc:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwsomcfQElY&feature=related

Tibetan Monks:

www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet

Michael Attwood:

www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol4/suicide_as_a_response_to_suffering.html

Michael Biggs:

www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/12/03/ultimate_sacrifice

Activism, Engaged Buddhism, Self-Immolation, Tibet

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Hozan Alan Senauke is vice-abbot of Berkeley Zen Center and founder of the Clear View Project, developing Buddhist-based resources for social change. From 1991–2001 Senauke was executive director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He is on the Advisory Council of International Network of Engaged Buddhists. He has also been a student of American traditional music for five decades. Senauke was Inquiring Mind's guest editor for the Spring 2014 issue, "War & Peace."

Hozan Alan Senauke is vice-abbot of Berkeley Zen Center and founder of the Clear View Project, developing Buddhist-based resources for social change. From 1991–2001 Senauke was executive director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He is on the Advisory Council of International Network of Engaged Buddhists. He has also been a student of American traditional music for five decades. Senauke was Inquiring Mind's guest editor for the Spring 2014 issue, "War & Peace."

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