Tessa Bartholomeusz's academic study examines how Sinhala Buddhist religious narrative, chiefly the medieval chronicle the Mahavamsa and its account of Sri Lanka as a dharmadwipa, an island entrusted with preserving the Buddha's teaching, was invoked by monks and lay politicians alike to justify armed conflict against the Tamil minority as a defense of Buddhism itself. Bartholomeusz was a scholar of Buddhist studies whose research focused on gender and just-war ideology in Sri Lankan Buddhism; the book is the first sustained cross-cultural study of the Sri Lankan civil war through the lens of just-war theory and traces how a tradition without a formal doctrine of holy war nonetheless developed one in practice.
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Reliability TierA peer-reviewed academic monograph by a specialist scholar of Buddhist studies, the first sustained cross-cultural study of the war through just-war theory, grounded directly in Sinhala Buddhist textual and political sources; treated as a top-tier scholarly source for the war's religious dimension specifically. Sources
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