ALL THAT IS REQUIRED FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS QUIETISM:

Buddhism Is Changing, Too – from Quietism to Active Politics: The Dalai Lama is issuing repeated appeals for nonviolence to his faithful. But not all of them are obeying. Like Christianity and Islam, this religion is also breaking onto the public stage in new forms (Sandro Magister, 4/15/08, Chiesa)

The passage to militant politics – and even to armed action – of a religion like Buddhism, traditionally defined as contemplative and identified with pacifism, is one of the new phenomena of this era.

It is a passage that is situated within today's general evolution of all the religions toward a stronger impact on the public stage.

For Christianity and Islam, this evolution is before the eyes of all. The events of recent months show that Buddhism is no exception.

First Burma, and then Tibet, have been the most evident theatres of the passage of Buddhism from quietist positions and support for the status quo to an action of critique and transformation of society, even confronting heavy repression.

But if in Burma the methods selected were nonviolent, in Tibet something different is happening. The rebellion is being expressed sometimes with a devastating force that takes aim not only at the hated Chinese, but also at those Tibetans who seem to be favored by the modernization promoted by the government of Beijing.