Korean Temple Burnings and Vandalism: The Response of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

@article{Wells2000KoreanTB,  title={Korean Temple Burnings and Vandalism: The Response of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies},  author={Harry Lee Wells},  journal={Buddhist-Christian Studies},  year={2000},  volume={20},  pages={239 - 240},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:170596276}}
  • H. Wells
  • Published1 January 2000
  • History
  • Buddhist-Christian Studies
Over the course of the last decade a fairly large number of Buddhist temples in South Korea have been destroyed or damaged by fire by misguided Christian fundamentalists. More recently, Buddhist statues have been identified as idols, and attacked and decapitated in the name of Jesus. Arrests are hard to effect, as the arsonists and vandals work by stealth of night. In 1998, the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies announced its support for our Buddhist brothers and sisters and our disgust at… 

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