| Japan is not purely buddhist, it is a blend of it indigenous shinto beliefs and buddhism, as well as traditional japanese values. The only country you can point at to highlight a buddhist society is Tibet, and that has now been changed by the Chinese.
How do you mean pacifist warrior, GWB? Are you talking about the Shaolin or similar monastaries? They came about originally when an Indian monk came to China and found that the monks did so little exercise that they were dangerously frail. So he taught them fighting exercises, because he was from the indian warrior caste.
The correlation between pacifism and fighting is that you can only be truely pacifist if you can be truelly destructive, yet still choose none violence.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |