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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Is Buddhism Opposed to Self-Defense?
Thoughts on Mia Zapata and Jyoti Singh Pandey
By M. SOPHIA NEWMAN-July 24, 2013
M.
Sophia Newman, MPH, is a freelance writer, a health researcher
currently completing a Fulbright fellowship in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a
Gits fan. Her writing often focuses on psychology, feminism, and
politics in South Asia. She blogs atmsophianewman.com.
Twenty
years after the murder of Mia Zapata inspired a self-defense movement
in Seattle, Indians are responding to a widely-reported gang-rape case
in Delhi by joining similar violence prevention courses. Only they’re
doing so over the advice of religious opponents, who echo a famous
Indian guru: the Buddha.
Thoughts on Mia Zapata and Jyoti Singh Pandey
By M. SOPHIA NEWMAN-July 24, 2013
M.
Sophia Newman, MPH, is a freelance writer, a health researcher
currently completing a Fulbright fellowship in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a
Gits fan. Her writing often focuses on psychology, feminism, and
politics in South Asia. She blogs atmsophianewman.com.
Twenty
years after the murder of Mia Zapata inspired a self-defense movement
in Seattle, Indians are responding to a widely-reported gang-rape case
in Delhi by joining similar violence prevention courses. Only they’re
doing so over the advice of religious opponents, who echo a famous
Indian guru: the Buddha.