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A 3 page overview of the manner in which Gandhi advocated non-violent protest through his satvagraha campaigns. This paper considers the specifics of such campaigns and speculates as to how they might have been interpreted by Buddhists. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Gandhi established a reputation of nonviolence while making phenomenal challenges against the political and social conditions which
existed in British India during his day. He stood peacefully yet effectively against the rampant discrimination and exploitation which had become the status quo. He was the champion
of the worker and the peasant but his triumph was a peaceful nonviolent triumph, not one based on confrontation and violence. He did so with the use of satyagraha
campaigns, campaigns which focused clearly on one issue and which were designed to maintain good personal relationships on both sides of those issues. Gandhi advocated openness and truth as
preventatives for threat and suspicion. While it is easy to understand how this approach was accepted by the within the Hindu community, one might question how a similar approach
would be accepted in other religions. How would a Buddhist, for example, regard a Gandhian Satyagraha? If we were to consider
the question of how a Buddhist might approach and evaluate a Gandhian Satyagraha we should look first to the very basics of Buddhism, basics revolving around the goal of achieving
nirvana. Nirvana to the Buddhist is a goal or a path involving, according to Harris (1991) the:
"extinction of desire, hate and the illusion of selfhood. Nirvana is essentially a state of mystical union with the absolute or World Soul, but it is not
an individual soul which attains it" The goal of the Gandhian satyagraha campaigns to achieve
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