Full Support or Quiet Resistance: Ukraine War Splits Russia’s Buddhists

[The Moscow Times] - 01/13/2025

Nonviolence is a central precept of the Buddhist faith. So why have so many Buddhist clerks from Russia backed the invasion of Ukraine?



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