Sangha 4 Myanmar

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You are probably aware of the awful situation in Myanmar, a country that is dear to many who spent time there studying and practicing the Dharma.

The people and the Sangha in Myanmar are in a very difficult position. Most western monastics and yogis have already left the country. The military is using extreme forms of armed violence and terror tactics against civilians, even going through neighborhoods shooting people at random. Doctors are routinely targeted with violence by the military, and prevented from treating the victims of its bloody attacks. Buddhist monastics are also arrested and faced with violence when they take part in peaceful protests or place pictures on their social media accounts. Monks and nuns are taking up leadership roles in the civil disobedience movement as too many others have been killed, injured, or forced to flee and go into hiding. The most senior Buddhist monks in Myanmar have called on the country’s military to halt its increasingly violent crackdown on civilian pro-democracy demonstrators protesting February’s coup. The State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee (Ma Ha Na), a government-appointed body that oversees Myanmar’s Buddhist monastic community, has drafted a statement decrying an “armed minority” for killing and torturing innocent civilians.

But the soldiers are also afraid of the karma they are making and the effects they may have in their next life so they go to the temples to offer food. Many monks and nuns have refused their offerings, overturning their alms-bowls and some have been arrested for doing so. Others accept the food because they feel intimidated. Most monks do not go on alms-round any more.

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Maybe we cannot do much from outside the country, but sometimes doing nothing in the face of evil is to be complicit. Therefore we are asking your help now to show the Myanmar Sangha and their lay supporters that we support them in their non-violent protests. We are starting an action on 9th May by asking monastics worldwide and across all traditions and ordination lineages to make pictures of themselves with their alms-bowl overturned and placing these on social media with the hashtags #Sangha4Myanmar and #StandWithMyanmar . This action will run until 26th May (Vesak).

You can also help by sharing the pictures of monastics with overturned alms-bowls on social media and/or by posting a picture of yourself making the 3 finger symbol (see picture) using the above hashtags and posting it on our FaceBook group ( https://samita.us3.list-manage.com/trac ... d395946367 ) or in our event from Facebook https://fb.me/e/zEVpryLz ( https://samita.us3.list-manage.com/trac ... d395946367 )

Thank you so much for supporting the Sangha and people of Myanmar! Let’s show people around the world that we care!

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For more background information:

Buddhist Door: INEB, Clear View Project Launch Humanitarian Appeal for Buddhist Monastics in Myanmar
https://www.inebnetwork.org/engagements ... tatorship/

Senior Buddhist Monks Urge Military Junta to End Violence in Myanmar
https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/senio ... in-myanmar

If you want to support the non-violent movement, please consider a donation to the below organisations:

Insight Myanmar ( https://insightmyanmar.org/donation ), or their new website Better Burma ( https://www.betterburma.org/donation )

Global Myanmar Volunteers ( https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-protect ... e=customer )

Mutual Aid Myanmar ( https://www.mutualaidmyanmar.org/ )

Humanitarian Aid for Myanmar ( https://web.facebook.com/Humanitarianaid4mm?_rdc=1&_rdr )

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Source: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/sa ... mar/20205/
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Overturned Alms Bowl: The Buddhist Take on the Myanmar Crisis

https://teahouse.buddhistdoor.net/overt ... ar-crisis/


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In my opinion that Overturned Alms Bowl is not as per Buddha taught.
Is this in line with the teaching or Vinaya.
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SarathW wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 4:28 am In my opinion that Overturned Alms Bowl is not as per Buddha taught.
Is this in line with the teaching or Vinaya.
We can consult the Vinaya specialists here at the Forum

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ကမ္ဘာအနှံ့ရှိ သံဃာတော်များက စစ်အာဏာရှင်ဆန့်ကျင် Alms-bowl လှုပ်ရှားမှုပြုလုပ်

Monks from around the world launch alms bowl movement against military dictatorship

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This appears to be a Western phenomenon.
When this military dictatorship did illtreat the Muslims why these Buddhist monks did not take any actions?
Is this action because the military now ill-treats the monks as well?
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It's in the vinaya.

This article sites the passage:

https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/t ... y-to-serve
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Coëmgenu wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 10:23 pm It's in the vinaya.

This article sites the passage:

https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/t ... y-to-serve
“The bowl may be overturned for a lay follower endowed with (any of) eight qualities: He/she strives for the monks' material loss, strives for the monks’ detriment, strives for the monks' non-residence, insults and reviles monks, causes monks to split from monks, speaks in dispraise of the Buddha, speaks in dispraise of the Dhamma, speaks in dispraise of the Sa?gha. I allow that the bowl be overturned for a lay follower endowed with (any of) these eight qualities.” (Cv. V.20.3)
Thanks. I think the Chinese invading Tibet was a bigger crime than this.
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Good luck turning up your almsbowl at the Red Guard.

Just kidding, they don't donate.

More context: https://www.dharmatalks.org/vinaya/bmc/Section0060.html

Google "overturn" in the document.
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Myanmar Junta Drops Plan to Place Buddhist Monks on Military Roadblocks

More than six months after the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown in a military-led coup, a plan by the junta to position Buddhist monks on military checkpoints and roadblocks in Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay has been abandoned in the face of opposition from the monastic sangha, local media sources report.

The plan, which initially received reluctant approval from Mandalay’s official monastic regulatory body, the Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, would have seen up to three monks stationed at military checkpoints around Mandalay, set up to enforce COVID-19 restrictions and to discourage pro-democracy protests.

“When the checkpoints were put in place last Monday [16 August], they were manned only by regime forces and civilian administrators because monks refused to take part in the scheme,” the news website Myanmar Now reported on Monday, citing monastic sources. (Myanmar Now)

“Now they know that nothing can be done without the consent of the Buddhist monks,” a member of the Sangha Union, which represents monks opposed to the military junta, was quoted as saying. (Myanmar Now)

Buddhist monastics, venerated throughout Burmese society, are highly influential in Myanmar (formerly Burma), a predominantly Theravada Buddhist country in which 88 per cent of the population of roughly 60 million people identify as Buddhists, according to 2014 census data. Buddhist monastics stood at the forefront of pro-democracy protests against the previous military junta in 2007, a movement known as the Saffron Revolution, which helped to bolster grassroots support. Buddhist monks are estimated to number in excess of 500,000, mainly centered in and around the cities of Yangon and Mandalay, along with some 75,000 Buddhist nuns.

https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/myanm ... roadblocks

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SarathW wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 10:16 pm This appears to be a Western phenomenon.
When this military dictatorship did illtreat the Muslims why these Buddhist monks did not take any actions?
Is this action because the on-sense and unrelated to Sangha in Burma.
This situation in Burma is a political issue (China vs USA) and is not related to Sangha in Myanmar. As you correctly said, those parties involved in persecuting & killing Muslims are the same who are now imprisoned by the military. What is going on is unrelated to Buddhism. For example, the military had to protect schools and school teachers attacked by the "opposition", who are armed and always were.
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SarathW wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 4:28 am In my opinion that Overturned Alms Bowl is not as per Buddha taught.
No. The Buddha taught about Overturned Alms Bowl, which appears an appropriate name:
Then the Lord, having overturned that water-vessel, addressed the venerable Rāhula, saying: “Do you, Rāhula, see this water-vessel that has been overturned?” “Yes, revered sir.” Even so, Rāhula, overturned is the recluseship of those who have no shame at intentional lying.”

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