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- Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:53 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Myanmar: the state mocks its own religion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17606
Re: Myanmar: the state mocks its own religion
It's widely covered in the English-language press there and presumably in Myanmar-language news and social media too; it was certainly a hot topic locally when the initial incident took place from what I understand.
- Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:49 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Myanmar: the state mocks its own religion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17606
Re: Myanmar: the state mocks its own religion
Don't forget that elections are coming up which the NLD look set to do well in, and actions like this play on whipped-up Buddhist nationalist sentiment and present USDP as 'defenders of the faith'. Among other issues are interminable peace talks while military action occurs in several areas of the c...
- Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:01 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2836
Re: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
No unfortunately that is a conclusion also reached from living in the country... further, the people in these villages have limited if any access to mainstream media.
- Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:42 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2836
Re: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
Yes, but because of Western media pandering and economic interests in not upsetting the Myanmar government too much (want to get their hands on lots of natural resources and cheap labour) it is downplayed as 'sectarian violence'.
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 4:06 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2836
Re: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
Hi chownah, Regrettably, Buddhism along with ethnicity is inextricably caught up in the ongoing problems in Myanmar and is a central and defining issue, from the 969 movement to promote Buddhist nationalism - now officially banned by the country's senior Sangha - and monks preaching discrimination a...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:46 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2836
Re: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
It's just a different understanding of Buddhism? That's all right then. Let the pogroms continue and we'll say no more about it. As someone purporting to follow the same religion I'm just drawing attention to some of the atrocities being committed in the world in its name. Something to reflect on an...
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:10 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2836
Rakhine Buddhists back in the news for the wrong reasons
News link here. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/10/myanmar-rioters-attack-muslims-burn-homes-2013101105542511855.html?fb_action_ids=10153334354405298&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 Ostensibly, it was started by a disp...
- Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:42 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Burma’s Muslims driven into the hands of human traffickers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3191
Re: Burma’s Muslims driven into the hands of human trafficke
Edited: My opinion matters not a jot.
- Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:08 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Nine blasts in Bodhgaya this morning: terrorist attack?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 21430
Re: Nine blasts in Bodhgaya this morning: terror attack?
I must belong to the 5% then because I have yet to see any evidence of '...violent treatment of Muslims at the hands of people claiming to be Buddhists.' Arakanese and Bangladeshis fighting over land certainly, and that is very regretable. How do you explain the violence and deaths in Meikthila, Ba...
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:08 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Nine blasts in Bodhgaya this morning: terrorist attack?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 21430
Re: Nine blasts in Bodhgaya this morning: terror attack?
Next few days/weeks will be interesting here on the ground in Myanmar...
- Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:59 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Coffee and tea as food
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2098
Re: Coffee and tea as food
A branch meditation center in the same lineage allowed coffee throughout the day as long as there was no milk.
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Coffee and tea as food
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2098
Re: Coffee and tea as food
Yes I was advised to wake up with something herbal (but it'll be before noon so technically ok, but, as you say, want to go with the flow) so will be stocking up on green tea bags. I got the e-mail just after I brewed what is now my last coffee for a month!
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:54 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Coffee and tea as food
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2098
Coffee and tea as food
Hi, Was advised in relation to a query in advance of the intensive retreat tomorrow that coffee is considered a food because it is made from a bean, even though that bean is not edible. Even black tea is considered a food. By that logic just about anything which is made from something solid is consi...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:39 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Good monasteries to ordain for meditation?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6111
Re: Good monasteries to ordain for meditation?
Lately I've been thinking a lot of going to SE Asia and meditating a bunch, maybe even becoming a monk. This afternoon I was in a high end shoe store in a busy shopping mall, and as I was trying on my first good pair of dress/business shoes, a Buddhist monk came and sat next to me. I didn't think a...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:36 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: More troubling news
- Replies: 80
- Views: 21643
Re: More troubling news
Attended a 'press launch' two nights ago of the proposed amended marriage law - where a Muslim must convert to Buddhism if he wishes to marry a Buddhist woman, and she must have the consent of both her parents and the local authorities. Over 1,000 monks were in attendance. It was held in an enormous...