Editing Fundamentalism (section)

===Buddhism===
{{See also|Buddhism and violence}}
Buddhist fundamentalism has targeted other religious and ethnic groups, as in [[Myanmar]]. A Buddhist-dominated country, Myanmar has seen [[Persecution of Muslims in Burma|tensions between Muslim minorities and the Buddhist majority]], especially during the [[2013 Burma anti-Muslim riots]] (possibly instigated by [[hardline]] groups such as the [[969 Movement]]).<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/30965 |date= March 30, 2013 |author= KYAW ZWA MOE |title= Root Out the Source of Meikhtila Unrest |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130827232539/http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/30965 |archive-date=August 27, 2013 |access-date=November 4, 2013 }}</ref> as well as during actions which are associated with the [[Rohingya genocide]] (2016 onwards).

Buddhist fundamentalism also features in [[Sri Lanka]]. Buddhist-dominated Sri Lanka has seen recent tensions between Muslim minorities and the Buddhist majority, especially during the [[2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka]]<ref>{{cite news|url= https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/19/world/asia/sri-lanka-muslim-aluthgama|title= Fear, shock among Sri Lankan Muslims in aftermath of Buddhist mob violence|first1= Iqbal|last1= Athas|first2= Tim|last2= Hume|date= June 24, 2014|work= CNN|access-date= January 23, 2020}}</ref> and in the course of the [[2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka]],<ref>
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</ref> allegedly instigated by hardline groups such as the [[Bodu Bala Sena]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Riza |first=M. |title=Sri Lanka declares emergency amid communal riots |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/3/6/sri-lanka-imposes-state-of-emergency-after-communal-riots |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>

Historic and contemporary examples of Buddhist fundamentalism occur in each of the three main branches of [[Buddhism]]: [[Theravada]], [[Mahayana]], and [[Vajrayana]]. In addition to the above examples of fundamentalism in Theravada-dominated societies, the reification of a [[Dharmapala|protector deity]], [[Dorje Shugden]], by 19th-century Tibetan lama [[Pabongkhapa]] could be seen as an example of fundamentalism in the Vajrayana tradition. Dorje Shugden was a key tool in Pabongkhapa's persecution of the flourishing [[Rimé movement]], an ecumenical movement which fused the teachings of the [[Sakya (Tibetan Buddhist school)|Sakya]], [[Kagyu]] and [[Nyingma]],{{sfn|Schaik|2011|p=165-169}} in response to the dominance of the [[Gelug]] school. While Pabongkhapa had an initially inclusive view early in his life, he received a number of signs that he had displeased Dorje Shugden by receiving teachings from non-Gelug schools, and thus initiated a revival movement that opposed the mixing of non-Gelug practices by Gelug practitioners.{{sfn|Kay|2004|p=47}} The main function of the deity was presented as "the protection of the Ge-luk tradition through violent means, even including the killing of its enemies." Crucially, however, these "‘enemies’ of the Gelug refers less to the members of rival
schools than to members of the Gelug tradition ‘who mix Dzong-ka-ba’s tradition with elements coming from other traditions, particularly the Nying-ma
[[Dzogchen|Dzok-chen]]’."{{sfn|Kay|2004|p=47}}

In Japan, a prominent example has been the practice among some members of the Mahayana [[Nichiren]] sect of [[shakubuku]] – a method of [[proselytizing]] which involves the strident condemnation of other sects as deficient or [[evil]].