Buddhists aren’t always peaceful

 Buddhists aren’t always peaceful

Stephen Prothero is a professor in Boston University’s religion department and the author of “The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation.”

When we think of Buddhism we don’t usually think of a man with a gun. We think instead of the Buddha sitting quiet and cross-legged, deep in meditation. Or of the Nobel Peace Prize winner the Dalai Lama, refusing to resort to violence in his struggle for a free Tibet.

GENOCIDE STUDIES MEDIA FILE: Burma/Myanmar

GENOCIDE STUDIES MEDIA FILE: Burma/Myanmar

“Buddhist monasteries associated with the fundamentalist movement, which calls itself 969, have opened community centers and a Sunday school program for children nationwide.” (Adam Dean/The New York Times)

Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists
By Thomas Fuller
The New York Times, June 20, 2013
“After a ritual prayer atoning for past sins, Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk with a rock-star following in Myanmar, sat before an overflowing crowd of thousands of devotees and launched into a rant against what he called ‘the enemy’ — the country’s Muslim minority.

ေျပာရင္ ႀကိဳက္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး .. ဒါေပမယ့္ ေျပာသင့္တယ္ ထင္လို႕ ေျပာရမယ္

Freedom News Group(Burma)

ေျပာရင္ ႀကိဳက္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး .. ဒါေပမယ့္ ေျပာသင့္တယ္ ထင္လို႕ ေျပာရမယ္

ယေန႕ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွာ Dalai Lama လို Quality ေကာင္းတဲ့ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြ နဲ႕ ဗုဒၶဘာသာက သာသာနာပ်ံေနတာ ၾကာေပါ့။ ေျပာၾကမယ္ .. အဲဒါ ေထရဝါဒ မဟုတ္ဘူး .. မဟာယန အယူအမွားဆိုၿပီး .. ဒါေပမယ့္ ယေန႕ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ စာအုပ္ဆိုင္ေတြရဲ႕ စာအုပ္စင္ေတြမွာ သြားၾကည့္ .. ဗုဒၶဘာသာအတြက္ .. ဗုဒၶဘာသာရဲ႕ အေၾကာင္း .. Meditation ေတြ အေၾကာင္း .. ေရးထားတဲ့ စာအုပ္ေတြဟာ .. မဟာယန ဆရာေတာ္ေတြ ေရးထားတဲ့ စာအုပ္ေတြ။ ဗီယက္နမ္ ဆရာေတာ္ Thich Nhat Hanh စာအုပ္ေတြ ႐ွိမယ္ .. ထိုင္းက ဆရာေတာ္ေတြရဲ႕ စာအုပ္ေတြ ႐ွိမယ္ .. Dalai Lama စာအုပ္ေတြ ႐ွိမယ္။ အျခား ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားေတြ သူတို႕ ဗုဒၶဘာသာနဲ႕ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေလ့လာေတြ႕႐ွိခ်က္ေတြ သူတို႕ သက္ဝင္ယံုၾကည္မွဳေတြကို ေရးထားမယ္။ အဲဒါေတြပဲ ..

Dalai Lama decries Buddhist attacks on Muslims in Myanmar

Dalai Lama decries Buddhist attacks on Muslims in Myanmar

By Ian Simpson

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland | Tue May 7, 2013 1:45pm EDT

(Reuters) – Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday decried Buddhist monks’ attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, saying killing in the name of religion was “unthinkable.”

Hinayana Myanmar Military Government’s cyber-trooper insulting Mahayana Chief Monk His Holiness Dalai Lama

Hinayana Myanmar Military Government’s cyber-trooper insulting Mahayana Chief Monk His Holiness Dalai Lama

လူထု ေမာင္ကာဠဳ

ပရိယတ္မရွိ၊ ပဋိပတ္မရွိ၊ ပဋိေဝဒဆိုတာ ေဝလာေဝး ဒလိုင္မာဆိုတာ ေမာ္လဝီလာ…

Buddhist violence against Muslims in Myanmar ‘wrong

 

London: Amid damning reports showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world’s foremost Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has condemned the violence that has left hundreds dead and an estimated hundreds of thousands homeless.

In an interview with Channel 4 News, he told Cathy Newman that violence “is wrong”. When he was asked whether he could do something about the attacks in Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka, he said: “In a student-teacher relationship, whether it is supreme teachers like Jesus or the Buddha, no one can control the thoughts of all humans.”

Systematic psychological warfare against Islam and Muslims in Burma

Dr. Nay Aung Kyaw wrote on his FB wall

 

There is a systematic psychological warfare against Islam and Muslims in Burma to portray as aliens, unwanted species and enemy of Buddhism. All Burmese Muslims should not swallow that propaganda together with the racists ,however they must be aware that they are victims of racism and hate crime and do not need to be apologetic and defensive of being Muslims in Burma.

DASSK, Dalai Lama and my views

Per kind favour of saya U Atta Kyaw: အုပ္စုတိုင္းမွာ အျမင္မတူတာေတြကေတာ့ ရိွမွာပဲ။

1. ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒါ အားသာခ်က္လို႔ က်ဳပ္ကေတာ့ ျမင္တယ္။
2. သေဘာထားအျမင္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးနဲ႔ ၾကံဳရေလေလ၊ တျခားသူေတြကို ပိုနားလည္လာႏိုင္ၿပီး
3. က်ဳပ္တို႔ကိုယ္ က်ဳပ္တို႔ ပိုေကာင္းေအာင္ လုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အခြင့္အေရးက ပိုမ်ားေလေလပဲ။
4. က်ဳပ္တို႔နဲ႔ အျမင္မတူသူေတြနဲ႔သာ ထိုင္ရန္ျဖစ္ေနရမယ္ဆိုရင္ အရာရာက ခက္ခဲလာလိမ့္မယ္။
5. က်ဳပ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ပုဂၢလိက အျမင္ေတြအေပၚမွာ အေသဖက္တြယ္ မထားသင့္ဘူး။ အဲဒီ့အစား ဖြင့္ထားတဲ့ စိတ္ႏွလံုးနဲ႔ အျပန္အလွန္ ေဆြးေႏြးသင့္တယ္။
6. သည္နည္းနဲ႔ က်ဳပ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ျမင္ပံုေတြကို ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ၾကည့္လာႏိုင္ၿပီး အျမင္သစ္ေတြ ရလာႏိုင္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။

(ဒလိုင္လားမား)

Clinton Calls for International Tribunal on Human Rights Abuses in Myanmar

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Source_Bloomberg: Clinton Calls for International Tribunal on Human Rights Abuses in Myanmar

The U.S. will work with Australia to establish an international Commission of Inquiry to hold leaders in Myanmar, also known as Burma, accountable for human rights violations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.