Rise of violent Buddhist rhetoric in Asia defies stereotypes.

[recon scout]

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'Buddhism & Violence' - academics discuss Sri Lanka and Burma
Discussing 'Buddhism & Violence' in a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 program 'Beyond Belief', academics and human rights activists discussed the nature of Buddhist violence, including the texts used the justify war in the defence of Buddhism, in Sri Lanka and Burma. See here (first broadcast on 19th August 2013).
http://tamilguardian.com/content/bu...cs-discuss-sri-lanka-and-burma?articleid=8628

lmao, Tamil Guardian.. seriously ?? how hard did you have to google this ?

kuch credible dihka, be.. like for example quran.com or sunnah.com type se direct verified etc

anyway, in eastern philosophy and dharmic ideology, these old stories don't hold anywhere near the same significance as they do with the Abrahamists, Islamists in particular... we can still be Buddhist or practice our Sanatan dharm and not believe or care about these stories.

I know this concept is way beyond your visible mental range but that's just how it is..

 

[Godman]

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'Buddhism & Violence' - academics discuss Sri Lanka and Burma
Discussing 'Buddhism & Violence' in a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 program 'Beyond Belief', academics and human rights activists discussed the nature of Buddhist violence, including the texts used the justify war in the defence of Buddhism, in Sri Lanka and Burma. See here (first broadcast on 19th August 2013).
http://tamilguardian.com/content/bu...cs-discuss-sri-lanka-and-burma?articleid=8628

ROLFMAO. How dumb are you to quote the Tamil Guardian of all sources and the Mahavamsa is not a religious scripture and Its not part of the Pali Canon either.

The anti conversion bill was to stop the evangelism and conversion to Christianity, it had nothing to do with Islam

Sri Lanka: minorities oppose anti-conversion bill
https://english.religion.info/2004/08/07/sri-lanka-minorities-oppose-anti-conversion-bill/

The War was fought along ethno-religious lines - Relihion, Buddhism was crucial to Sinhala identity, to Tamils language not religion was paramount .

The Anti-Conversion bill was brought by Hindu Nationalists to an alliance with Buddhist Nationalists.
Don't change it to Secular Tamils vs Sinhala Buddhist Nationalists now.
You clearly ranted nonsense about Sinhala Buddhists attacking Hindus.

 

[manlion]

The Anti-Conversion bill was brought by Hindu Nationalists to an alliance with Buddhist Nationalists.
Don't change it to Secular Tamils vs Sinhala Buddhist Nationalists now.
You clearly ranted nonsense about Sinhala Buddhists attacking Hindus.

The Anti Conversion Bill was a fight between Christians and Sinhala Buddhist dont drag Tamil or Muslims into your fight

Colombo, Aug 2 – Christian groups are strongly opposing Sri Lanka’s move to introduce a bill banning religious conversions, with the Supreme Court also receiving 25 petitions in its favour and 21 against it, placing the government in a tight spot, reports OneWorld.

While the bill was tabled in parliament as a private member motion by opposition parliamentarian Omalpe Sobhitha of the all monks party Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), it is considered a test run for the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which had earlier promised to table a similar one.

In a bid to allay the fears of the established churches, the country’s leading Buddhist organisations issued a statement saying the bill’s purpose was to monitor the “unchecked activities of Christian fundamentalists” who were posing a threat to the “1,000 years of religious harmony maintained in this country”.

Says Indrani Devendra, secretary of the All Ceylon Women’s Buddhist Congress, “The bill is aimed at minimising the tension created by fundamentalist groups whose provocative conduct made even sections of the Buddhists react violently.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8143/sri-lankas-minorities-oppose-anti-conversion-bill

 

[Godman]

The Anti Conversion Bill was a fight between Christians and Sinhala Buddhist dont drag Tamil or Muslims into your fight

Colombo, Aug 2 – Christian groups are strongly opposing Sri Lanka’s move to introduce a bill banning religious conversions, with the Supreme Court also receiving 25 petitions in its favour and 21 against it, placing the government in a tight spot, reports OneWorld.

While the bill was tabled in parliament as a private member motion by opposition parliamentarian Omalpe Sobhitha of the all monks party Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), it is considered a test run for the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which had earlier promised to table a similar one.

In a bid to allay the fears of the established churches, the country’s leading Buddhist organisations issued a statement saying the bill’s purpose was to monitor the “unchecked activities of Christian fundamentalists” who were posing a threat to the “1,000 years of religious harmony maintained in this country”.

Says Indrani Devendra, secretary of the All Ceylon Women’s Buddhist Congress, “The bill is aimed at minimising the tension created by fundamentalist groups whose provocative conduct made even sections of the Buddhists react violently.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8143/sri-lankas-minorities-oppose-anti-conversion-bill

This thread is getting hillarious with complete idiots that has no knowledge of the events in SL acting like complete experts that lived in SL forever.
It was the Hindu Nationalists like T. Maheswaran in SL that proposed the bill to Sinhala Buddhist Nationalists after discussing it with Indian Hindus. Hell they even tried to start movement with both Indian and Sri Lankan Hindu and Buddhist Nationalist leaders

The call to introduce anti-conversion laws in Sri Lanka has been around for several years, championed by some groups. It is a direct reaction to the growth of the Evangelical Christian Church in our predominantly Buddhist/Hindu land.

The Minister of Buddhism and Legal Reform, W.J.M. Lokubandara, has now taken up this cause. Initially, it was Minister of Hindu Cultural Affairs Mr. Maheswaran, who championed the cause for an anti-conversion Bill, after his return from a visit to the Indian State of Tamil Nadu in November 2002. By July 2003, the draft legislation, modeled on the Tamil Nadu Bill was sent to the Attorney General's office (in keeping with procedure) prior to being presented in Parliament. The anti-Christian lobby, endorses this

http://archives.dailynews.lk/2003/09/12/fea01.html

 

[hussain0216]

lmao, Tamil Guardian.. seriously ?? how hard did you have to google this ?

kuch credible dihka, be.. like for example quran.com or sunnah.com type se direct verified etc

You don't trust Hindu Tamils????

anyway, in eastern philosophy and dharmic ideology, these old stories don't hold anywhere near the same significance as they do with the Abrahamists, Islamists in particular... we can still be Buddhist or practice our Sanatan dharm and not believe or care about these stories.

I know this concept is way beyond your visible mental range but that's just how it is..

Eastern philosophy, Santa danda, dharma blah blah blah

If your going to find excuses for buddist Sinhalese extremists why are you even asking questions?

 

[Mirzah]

Bodu bala Sena the Buddhist fundamentalist group is instigating the violent riots against minorities, even the monks are involved just like Myanmar

https://www.facebook.com/

 

[manlion]

ROFLMAO.
It was the Hindu Nationalists like T. Maheswaran in SL that proposed the bill to Sinhala Buddhist Nationalists after discussing it with Indian Hindus. Hell they even tried to start movement with both Indian and Sri Lankan Hindu and Buddhist Nationalist leaders

The call to introduce anti-conversion laws in Sri Lanka has been around for several years, championed by some groups. It is a direct reaction to the growth of the Evangelical Christian Church in our predominantly Buddhist/Hindu land.

The Minister of Buddhism and Legal Reform, W.J.M. Lokubandara, has now taken up this cause. Initially, it was Minister of Hindu Cultural Affairs Mr. Maheswaran, who championed the cause for an anti-conversion Bill, after his return from a visit to the Indian State of Tamil Nadu in November 2002. By July 2003, the draft legislation, modeled on the Tamil Nadu Bill was sent to the Attorney General's office (in keeping with procedure) prior to being presented in Parliament. The anti-Christian lobby, endorses this

http://archives.dailynews.lk/2003/09/12/fea01.html

what has anti conversion bill got to do with war between Tamils and Sinhala Buddhist ? The bill primary target was Christian missionaries conversion through deceptive preaching.

He was a member of the Sinhala Political Party, to brand him as Hindu nationalist is over the top ,

 

[Godman]

what has anti conversion bill got to do with war between Tamils and Sinhala Buddhist ? The bill primary target was Christian missionaries conversion through deceptive preaching.

He was a member of the Sinhala Political Party, to brand him as Hindu nationalist is over the top ,

Branding him as a Hindu Nationalist? So you are saying that T.Maheswaran is not a Hindu Nationalist? That is a pretty big display of your lack of knowledge on Sri Lankan ethnic politics.
The guy that tried to create a Hindu movement with figures like Jayendra Saraswathi and ally with Buddhist Nationalists

And he was never part of any Sinhalese Parties. He was a member of the United National Party which is party created by right wing Muslim ,Sinhala and Tamil leaders of the Independence movement

 

[hussain0216]

I trust them more than the arab cultural slave followers.

santa danda te 5000+ years of history banta, but an arab cultural slave like you has major resistance to even trying to grasp what this means.

arab slave

You want us to be beghairat monkey worshipping pagans

Our forefathers chose a superior system and denounced jahilat, pagan idol worship and the shameful ignorant beleifs of our ancestors for faith in one God

I dont understand why you want us to be so debased as to worship idols and become pagans

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

muslims can't get along with yet another religious group in another region and everyone else is to be blamed?

You are aware of what forum you are on?

@waz @Horus

the arab cultural slave followers.

Yeah, no.

Come up with a more original insult.

 

[Count Dracula]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ist-deity-chinese-official-says-idUSKCN1GK0V6

BEIJING (Reuters) - President of China, head of its Communist Party, commander-in-chief of the military and now living Buddhist deity - Xi Jinping has added another title to his growing collection, at least in the eyes of some ethnic Tibetans.

You want us to be beghairat monkey worshipping pagans

Our forefathers chose a superior system and denounced jahilat, pagan idol worship and the shameful ignorant beleifs of our ancestors for faith in one God

I dont understand why you want us to be so debased as to worship idols and become pagans

Somebody frame this. lmao

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

You are aware of what forum you are on?

@waz @Horus




Yeah, no.

Come up with a more original insult.

this is the exact mentality why i am advocating a heavy handed approach to dealing with ya'll. as long as you are a minority you would be whining about discrimination but when you are the majority, you want everything to be your way, persecute other opinions, impose your way of life etc

You mean the tiny unarmed sri Lankan Muslim community should be blamed for by buddist extremism in sru lanka

everyone's unarmed in sri lanka. muslims aren't special. muslims just recently threw a hissy fit wanting to smash underage girls etc. shit like that will have consequences. this is why i am saying as long as our spineless retarded government doesnt take action against islamic fanatics, this problem will continue.

But you are Indian.. ..and an knob

how about this? since the only countries that exist in PDF makebelieve butt ****ing universe are india and pakistan, we should ban every other flag except for those 2?

 

[Mirzah]

when you are the majority, you want everything to be your way, persecute other opinions, impose your way of life etc

Pot calling the kettle black Lol that’s what you Buddhists are doing now, persecuting minority’s killing them in riots burning down homes and shops, tyranny of the majority imposing Buddhist way of life

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Pot calling the kettle black Lol that’s what you Buddhists are doing now, persecuting minority’s killing them in riots burning down homes and shops, tyranny of the majority imposing Buddhist way of life

you talk as if it happens everyday. this is just a rare event that you and the leftist media use to victimise muslims.

 

[Mamluk]

you talk as if it happens everyday. this is just a rare event that you and the leftist media use to victimise muslims.

This is in no way rare. You guys are doing the exact same things in Kashmir, massacre, genocide, rapes fully state sponsored!!