{"id":3713,"date":"2014-10-03T22:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T02:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?post_type=ctc_event&#038;p=3713"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T19:23:32","slug":"from-skirmishes-to-jihads-2","status":"publish","type":"ctc_event","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/events\/from-skirmishes-to-jihads-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From Skirmishes to Jihads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Buddhists, war is unskillful and to be avoided. This talk and subsequent Q &amp; A will explore the Buddhist teaching on war. In the age of Al-Qaeda and ISIL, what is the proper approach that Buddhists take to warfare? Is war always wrong and unskillful? Is there such a thing as a just cause to war? Can a Buddhist become a soldier? Presented by Dharma Teacher Daikan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sliding scale suggested donation $10 &#8211; $20<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A short <strong>Introduction to Meditation Training<\/strong> session will be held before the gathering at 9:45 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Buddhists, war is unskillful and to be avoided. This talk and subsequent Q &amp; A will explore the Buddhist teaching on war. In the age of Al-Qaeda and ISIL, what is the proper approach that Buddhists take to warfare? Is war always wrong and unskillful? Is there such a thing as a just cause&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_event_category":[],"class_list":["post-3713","ctc_event","type-ctc_event","status-publish","hentry","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/3713\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event_category?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}