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What is the Karma of War?

From a Buddhist framework, war is not just a geopolitical event—it is a karmic eruption. A consequence of collective delusion, desire, and hatred (the Three Poisons: moha, rāga, and dveṣa). Karma, in Buddhism, is intentional action—and the consequences that ripple from it. War, then, is the collective karmaof countless beings driven by: Wars erupt when these forces intensify on a mass scale. […]

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