Sri Lanka Buddhist monks demand halal boycott.

[Spring Onion]

The heading is misleading..It's a called by a fringe group of Buddhist nationalist's NOT by Buddhist Monks and the boycott is not against Halal per se..But against a private organisation that have taken over the rights of issueing the certificate at a fee..Vast majority of the population concider these groups just rabble rousers and give no credence

The govt of Sri Lanka should create a news section in health and food department wherein they should hire Muslim religious scholars who should issue such certificates not private organisations.

This will also end such neferious designs by extremists be it from Hindu/Muslims or Budhists.

this is not a big issues.

Just a small issue of certfication by a private group.

happy ending

 

[Karachiite]

How will it affect Pakistan-SriLanka relations?

And the obsession with Pakistan continues.

 

[l3hdf]

They should call for ban of all meat, eggs and animal products except dairy-derived. If Sri Lanka is proud of its Buddhist heritage and calls itself a Buddhist nation, you should follow in the footsteps of the Buddha who was pure vegetarian. Karmically and physically it is good for you. No pig meat, no cow meat, no halal meat, no haram meat, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, all will be happy. Even the Christian spiritual practices involve bread and wine, no meat is essential for them.

Come on Sri Lanka think about it, you can be the first truly vegetarian nation in the world . At least since the kingdoms of Vedic times or before Abrahamic religions entered this region.

 

[Skyline]

They should call for ban of all meat, eggs and animal products except dairy-derived. If Sri Lanka is proud of its Buddhist heritage and calls itself a Buddhist nation, you should follow in the footsteps of the Buddha who was pure vegetarian. Karmically and physically it is good for you. No pig meat, no cow meat, no halal meat, no haram meat, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, all will be happy. Even the Christian spiritual practices involve bread and wine, no meat is essential for them.

Come on Sri Lanka think about it, you can be the first truly vegetarian nation in the world . At least since the kingdoms of Vedic times or before Abrahamic religions entered this region.

Who told you Buddha was a pure vegetarian?
Buddhists don't have ban on eating meat, it's their personal choice.

 

[takeiteasy]

btw are Srilankans mostly vegetarians?

 

[Roybot]

btw are Srilankans mostly vegetarians?

No they aren't.

 

[Skyline]

btw are Srilankans mostly vegetarians?

Nope, I don't think there is at least 5% vegetarians.

 

[Spring Onion]

Nope, I don't think there is at least 5% vegetarians.

grow bushes for them

 

[l3hdf]

Who told you Buddha was a pure vegetarian?
Buddhists don't have ban on eating meat, it's their personal choice.

The Mahayana sutras and amongst the oldest schools of mahasamghika relays this. If you read the Nirvana sutra which has authentic accounts of the final days of his life, he says that even if meat touches your food, that food should be discarded. His views on meat and killing of animals was historically seen to be based on the existent mysticism of his time, which held karmic virtues and compassion towards animals in high regard. When buddhist teachings travelled to other parts, they were misconstrued and adapted to suit the habits of those populations, so in certain schools they say he had allowed or not mentioned any preference w.r.t diet.

See the passages and sources mentioned in Buddhist vegetarianism for a start. And of course it is your choice, buddhism is based wholly on the choices you make in life. But he gave guidance to reduce your karmic load and lessen suffering as much as possible.

 

[Android]

Who told you Buddha was a pure vegetarian?
Buddhists don't have ban on eating meat, it's their personal choice.

same goes for Hinduism and other dharmic religions

 

[notsuperstitious]

@Skyline I still do not understand the issue. Can you tell is there any ''religious'' or ''ethical'' reason for Sri Lankans not to eat halal?

In SG there are shope that say they do not serve halal as its a cruel way of slaughter and its against their ethics.

Sorry for OT, but has anyone yet objected to the national anthem. I see there is clearly a ''namo matha'' part that some people in India object to (vande mataram) and as a result we did not make it our anthem. The ''strict'' Muslims have a problem saying that.

 

[Skyline]

The Mahayana sutras and the oldest school of mahasamghika relays this. If you read the Nirvana sutra which has authentic accounts of the final days of his life, he says that even if meat touches your food, that food should be discarded. His views on meat and killing of animals was historically seen to be based on the existent mysticism of his time, which held karmic virtues and compassion towards animals in high regard. When buddhist teachings travelled to other parts, they were misconstrued and adapted to suit the habits of those populations, so in certain schools they say he had allowed or not mentioned any preference w.r.t diet.

See the passages and sources mentioned in Buddhist vegetarianism for a start. And of course it is your choice, buddhism is based wholly on the choices you make in life. But he gave guidance to reduce your karmic load and lessen suffering as much as possible.

Sri Lanka is a Theravada Buddhist country such as Thailand, Myanmar etc. We don't have a ban on eating meat, if we kill any animal for our meals then it's a sin.

 

[Spring Onion]

same goes for Hinduism and other dharmic religions

so whats the fuss about then ?

 

[Skyline]

@Skyline I still do not understand the issue. Can you tell is there any ''religious'' or ''ethical'' reason for Sri Lankans not to eat halal?

In SG there are shope that say they do not serve halal as its a cruel way of slaughter and its against their ethics.

Main reason is this,
91% of population of Sri Lanka aren't Muslims. So that halal certification issuing private religious group get huge sum of money and they use those money to spread/fund some extremists groups.

 

[Skyline]

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Sorry for OT, but has anyone yet objected to the national anthem. I see there is clearly a ''namo matha'' part that some people in India object to (vande mataram) and as a result we did not make it our anthem. The ''strict'' Muslims have a problem saying that.

They sing it here