It is against Buddhist teachings to kill other creatures, but that has not stopped Buddhists in the past from executing wrongdoers.
To avoid transgression, some Buddhists would devise ingenious methods of bringing about the death of an intended victim without administering the fatal blow.
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Coming up: How did Buddhists execute wrongdoers in the past?
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It is against Buddhist teachings to kill other creatures, but that has not stopped Buddhists in the past from executing wrongdoers. To avoid transgression, some Buddhists would devise ingenious methods of bringing about the death of an intended victim without administering the fatal blow.
In Tibet, Buddhists would often imprison victims in dungeons — such as the notorious Cave of Scorpions in the Potala Palace in Lhasa — or throw them into a well and leave them to their fate, as in the case of the Christian missionary Sundar Singh early in the 20th century.
At other times Buddhists would sew up the unfortunate wretch in a wet yak skin; when it dried and shrank in the sun, the sufferer would either suffocate or be crushed to death. Binding the arms and legs of the victim and throwing him into a river to drown was another method of carrying out an execution.
Such apparent brutality is difficult to reconcile with the Buddhist belief in the sanctity of life, but it helped to ensure that Tibetans remained law-abiding.
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