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Plea to protect Jumma Buddhists in B?desh
2007-09-12 23:15:00
Plea to protect Jumma Buddhist s in B?deshBangladesh Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka yesterday called on the Sri Lankan Government to put pressure on the Bangladesh Government to protect Jumma Buddhists and their lands in that country. They also called on the attention of the international community to their plight.They appealed to human rights organizations to send a fact-finding mission to the Chittagong Hill Tracts to assess the human rights situation in that area.The Buddhist monks also requested the Bangladesh Government to renounce violence, to stop its harmful policy towards the indigenous Jumma people, to stop its repression of human rights activists and indigenous Jumma peoples.?Remember we share a planet with other societies and must learn to live together in harmony. We are different, but not enemies. We have common enemies to fight together such as ignorance, fear, hatred and diseases. The Lord Buddha condemned violence against others in any form whatsoever. Man biologically ...
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Dhammapadaya - Part 01
2007-09-12 22:02:00
The Pairs************************************ ************************(DhP 1)All mental phenomena are preceded by mind, Mind is their master, they are produced by mind. If somebody speaks or acts With a corrupted mind, Hence suffering follows him, Like the wheel the foot of the bearing animal. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------(D hP 2)All things are preceded by mind, Mind is their master, they are produced by mind. If somebody speaks or acts With a purified mind, Hence happiness follows him, Like never departing shadow. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------(D hP 3)He abused me, he beat me, He defeated me, he robbed me. Those, who harbour such thoughts, Their hatred is not appeased. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------(D hP 4)He abused me, he beat me, He defeated me, he robbed me. Those, who do not harbour such thoughts, Their hatred is appeased. ----------...
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Is it god, Darwin or the Buddha?
2007-09-12 00:01:00
Is it god, Darwin or the Buddha ? - Daily NewsV. DahanayakaMahinda WeerasingheORIGIN OF LIFE: Mahinda Weerasinghe is a man with an extraordinary message. Not only is he contesting the creationists? theories of life, but also challenging the scientific establishment?s alternative to divine creation.We finally caught up with him holidaying leisurely in Mt Lavinia, on a quick visit to Sri Lanka to launch his work in late August, and posed some relevant questions.Interviewer: - Vijitha Yapa publications has just released your enlarged third edition of ?The Origin of Species According to the Buddha?. In that you not only summarily dismiss the creationist version of life, but also the scientific establishment?s alternative to it; obviously I am speaking of Darwin?s ?Theory of Evolution?.Mahinda Weerasinghe: Curiously enough the global opinion concerning theories of life is divided between these two schools of thought. The Creationists profess that species were fashioned in their present fo...
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