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Buddhistdoor View: Finding Home in Interfaith Dialogue

By Buddhistdoor Global | | Buddhistdoor Global

As we embark into the third decade of the 21st century, we find ourselves in a time of not only extraordinary wealth, comfort, and advanced technology, but also continuing inter-communal and inter-religious violence, assaults on freedom of the press and other democratic institutions, and a general dissatisfaction with life. This week in India, the birthplace of Buddhism, inter-religious violence erupted in New Delhi as mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in an outbreak of brutality that some are comparing with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which 3,000 people were killed. The scene there, and in many places around the world, is worrying.