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The Dalai Lama represents Vajrayana Buddhism, which has tended to be more peaceable. Myanmar and Sri Lanka - two Buddhist countries that have persecuted minorities within - are of the Theravada school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern,_Eastern_and_Northern...

Some Buddhist monks in these countries are the chief propagators of the hate - in Myanmar, the head of the 969 Movement that's driving the Islamaphobia is the monk Wirathu.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/969_Movement




Wow, that sounds like a Japanese transcription of "Wrath" - ヰラテュ.


But then, before the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet, lamaism was not what I would call a particularly kind and peaceful thing.




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