When people "on the other side" are viewed as monsters, the potential for civic cooperation is undercut, writes a Penn State ...

In the category of Buddhist parittas, we have the Angulimala Sutta ( M.II. 97 - 105), the use of which for this purpose appears to date back to the time of the Buddha himself. This sutta tells that ...

The cannibal king, says the Jataka, was an earlier birth of Angulimala, the dreaded bandit who cut off a finger from each person he murdered and wore them around his neck in a gristly garland.