While this discourse of alternate understandings of protecting the sasana is only just emerging publicly among Burmese monks, in interviews, some have presented ideas that differ markedly from the MaBaTha fear-based model. One Mandalay monk insisted that one could only protect oneself (and by extension, the sasana) by protecting others. Without creating an environment where others are safe, one’s own community will never be safe.45 Several others connected the defense or propagation of the sasana with an explicit motivation of spreading peace. If certain actions do not spread peace, they cannot be considered to help Buddhism.46 Of course, given the refusals described above, to acknowledge responsibility for the connections between anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence, many MaBaTha monks would say that they are conducting their work with the intention to create a peaceful society. This is why a deeper structural awareness that recognizes the unintended effects of actions is also critical to developing a response.