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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham—A Review
The Sõtõ sect was actively engaged in Buddhist propagation in colonialKorea after having succeeded in establishing its ³rst missionary temple inPusan in 1905. By the time it withdrew from Korea in 1945, the Sõtõ sect had secured an extensive propagation network connecting more than one hundred temples. Despite its successful Buddhist polemics, Sõtõ’s Buddhist teachings in Korea were basically political propaganda viable only with i nthe framework of Japanese colonial imperialism. The Sõtõ sect in colonial Korea was deeply involved in the cause of Japanese imperialism by carrying out three major tasks: Buddhist services for the Japanese military, pro-motion of the “kõminka” (transforming [the colonial peoples] into imperial subjects) policy, and the paci³cation of colonial subjects. Not surprisingly, none of these goals—which were promoted in the name of Buddhist compassion and non-selfhood in the tradition of Zen Buddhism—could survive the collapse of Imperial Japan’s claim to “universal benevolence”that had been premised on the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
Keywords: Sõtõ sect—imperialism—colonialism—Korea—Takeda Hanshi—kõminka movement