Tikhonov, Vladimir, and Torkel Brekke, eds. Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. Print.

First I went to the online catalog and searched Buddhism because that is the most appealing religion to me so far. I searched for a title that seemed interesting to me and “Buddhism and Violence”. Then the used the call number to find the book, which is easy because we learned that in elementary school.

The cover is sleek so that’s appealing for pickup. The titles of each section are descriptive, so the table of contents was helpful because it gave a slight insight into each section because the titles were so elaborate. The section I looked at was a bout Military Temples. Right off the bat the author uses a lot of concrete particulars, which is great to grab the reader’s attention. Each section also has a lot of references so that’s always good to check accuracy and how legit it is. Also the inclusion of pictures into the book is pretty neat, not many small educational books have pictures, so it helps to give more background to the topics talked about.

After flipping through more sections, overall this text seems very informative and beneficial if one were to study or need to write about any of the topics in this book. All in all I’d give this book an 8/10 (would read again) for sleekness, storyteller intro to the chapter I read, and put-togetherness.