Sangha 4 Myanmar

[Lucas Oliveira]

Hundreds of Buddhist Monks Flee Temples in Eastern Myanmar as Violence Escalates

https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/hundr ... escalates/

[Ontheway]

Myanmar is a wonderful Buddhist Land. Sadly, the government is not a righteous one...

I hope Myanmar will one day become democratic and peaceful.

[Lucas Oliveira]

Myanmar’s military turns to Buddhism in bid for legitimacy

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/3 ... legitimacy

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

The deadly battles that tipped Myanmar into civil war

Myanmar is seeing increasingly deadly battles between its military and organised groups of armed civilians, new data suggests. Many of those fighting the military are young people who have put their lives on hold since the junta seized power a year ago.

[JoahM]

About half of our podcasts examine the current conflict from a Buddhist point of view: https://insightmyanmar.org/complete-shows

[Lucas Oliveira]

Overturning the alms bowl

Last year, a Western monk in Burma who has become an apologist for the military regime wrote a scathing indictment of monks who overturned their alms bowls. This was being carried out by some members of the Sangha as a symbolic protest to indicate they would no longer accept support from those in the military carrying out atrocities against innocent people. In hoping to prove his point, the monk wrote, “Such proclamations should not be casually done for the purpose of gaining Facebook likes, support, political asylum, or pats on the back.” Because this monk had used a translation from the Saṁyutta Nikāya by Bhikkhu Bodhi in his essay to argue his point, I was quite curious to hear the Venerable’s own take on this point when we conducted our recent interview.

https://insightmyanmar.org/insight-myan ... -alms-bowl