Have Buddhists or Hindus ever started any Holy Wars?

Answer 1

Nope - its against their religion!

Answer 2

Though I'm not sure on all the details, I do know that the nation of Pakistan was formed when Indian Muslims and Hindus couldn't peacefully co-exist. However, I'm not sure exactly where the impetus was--more recent history is not my specialty.

Buddhists, I think, could technically be termed in a holy war at the moment, with China's takeover of Tibet, but they certainly wouldn't see it that way and are attempting to come to a peaceful resolve of the issue.

Answer 3

No such thing as a holy war. Japan and China were known to start a few wars, India has had a share of their own. Shall we also include the wars of atheistic communism and the wars of pagan countries in past history?

Answer 4

I suppose that depends on how you define "Holy War". Certainly the Cambodians, who were Buddhists, once invaded Thailand and made a point of destroying Thai Buddhist temples.

Answer 5

There are militant sects of Hindus in India, militant mostly against Muslims, I guess. And there have even been places in Asia where Buddhist monks from different monasteries have had fist fights with each other (in the news recently). Not exactly wars, but anger, self-centeredness and violence are in all people of all religions.

Answer 6

Fundamentalist Hindus are extremely violent, and burn mosques as happily as fundamentalist Muslims blow up restaurants. Read something about contemporary India.

Find a Buddhist sovereign, and you'll find one who's waged war. War is an inevitable part of statecraft, and true pacifists end up killed by their opponents.

Answer 7

Actually, I believe Buddhists are the only group that has never started a war! All the more to follow their example, wouldn't you say? : )

Answer 8

There have been the cases where even Buddhists have promoted or started wars, but they obviously were still very ignorant and didn't follow the teachings too closely obviously haha.

Answer 9

The war of partition between India and Pakistan were essentially between the different religions (Hinduism and Islam). It would be too simplistic to say that Hindus started a holy war - but that was one of the dividing criteria between the two sides.

Answer 10

For reigning queen : India has had 2 mulsim presidents, the right posts in Indian equipment, Muslim savour separate code of regulation for them, they are allowed to have 4 better halves and bring a militia of illiterate Jehadis! between the richest Indian is Azim premji, proprietor of WIPRO! sharukh khan, amir khan, Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Feroz & Sanjay Khan... and various different bollywood acters are taking section in love and repute in India !! And Muslims in India can demolish any hindu temple or christian church in India interior the call of Jehad. Muslims in India have killed extra beneficial than one hundred,000 Kashmiri pundits Islam is a deadly disease, that's eating India from interior ! (barring some first rate examples) what else you pick muslims to do in India ?? In Pakistan, christians, ahmedis, shiyas and a few left over hindus are being killed systematically. shame on you and your faith !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BABRI MASJID - became no longer a mosque.. there became lord Rama's temple which became demolished by using Babar and he made a mosque on that place as a demonstration of his victory. This so-stated as mosque has no longer been used by using muslims for Namaz for the final one hundred fifty years....even the muslim scholars rejected that place as mosque becoz it became against the Islamic regulations. Babri masjid became call given to previous broken and dilapidated shape by using shrewed pseudo-seculars to collect votes of idiotic muslims.

Answer 11

No. All wars, even Bush's are for economic gain.