Fiery protest by Buddhist monk over cattle slaughter
A Buddhist monk set himself on fire this morning outside the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kandy in protest over the slaughter of cattle, police said.
Sources said the monk poured petrol over his body and then lit himself. He was rushed to the Kandy hospital with severe injuries and later transferred to General Hospital, Colombo, the police added.
Preliminary investigations had revealed that the Buddhist monk identified as Ven. Bowatte Indraratana Thera was a former Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) member of the Pelmadulla Pradeshiya Sabha.
He had lost his seat in the PS after he had repeatedly stayed away from council meetings. The PS Chairman said about two weeks ago he received a letter from the JHU saying that the monk had been expelled from the party.
(Courtesy: DM Online)
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THE GOVT MUST NOW ENACT THE ANIMAL WELFARE BILL.
SINHALESE AND TAMILS ARE ALL IN FAVOR OF THIS… SO IF OVER 90% OF THE NATION DEMANDS THE GOVT SHOULD NOT DELAY IN IMPLEMENTING IT JUST BCOS THE MUSLIM JUSTICE MIN WANTS TO SLAUGHTER CATTLE
Nandasena.
From where did you get this ball park figure of 90%. Has there been a poll or any system in place to find out who are in favor of this bill.
I would suggest the Buddhist monks eat their ping bath and stay in the temple. Not a very good example from person wearing a robe.??
The message from this incident is a very strong one at a time our Buddhist nation is celebrating the birth of Gauthama Buddha.
Animal slaughter and the human consumption of decomposing flesh for dead animals, birds and fish should stop immediately. The Theravada Sinhala Buddhists should at least aspire to become vegans prior to the termination of the current soujourn on earth.
Well done Ven. Bowatte Indraratana Thera for the extremely inspiring communications. It is now time for Ven, Galgoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera to use reqsources of the Bodhu Bala Sena to propogate this message.
The Muslims will not accept this Buddhist philosophy; they have blood on their minds. The Tamils are an extreme; the Kebettigollewa massacre demonstrates the Tamil psyche. Leave them alone. We the Buddhists march froward towards being the Wonder fo Asia.
It’s better to stop but it’s hard to stop killing cattles in sri lanka because our country is with mix religents.
Nandasen buming around some place in the US must have most likely got into the US illegally and probably never been into a ball park for he must have spent a lot time pan-handling (ping buth)and now must be amricanized to eat raw flesh.
90 percent estimation of the writer is correct for buddhist and hindus account for about 90 percent of the populationa with christians and muslims put together is less than that.
These issues has been ruminating for a long time even before independence but has only paid lip service to these issues and at least now the people are conscious of the issue and must take meaningful steps to enact legislation to prohibit slaughter or serving of meat products within the orbit of religious place. If India with the largest cattle population in world can do it there is no reason why we cannot dare do it.
For starters Commonwealth Conference official dinners should be vegetarian.
Sama
I was referring to SisiraP about bumming around in the US and still maintain so
Sama
You and and Nandana are assuming that 90% want this bill. I doubt it very Much. Any way. I may or may not be bumming around in USA but that is my business. Your comment is a typical radical comment that does not bother me, I am a proud, decent Sri Lankan who believes that all human beings have a right to pray to any god they want, Eat any food they want and slaughter the animals they eat any way they like. I am not one these maniacs who all of those who think I am better that the next person.
The animal welfare bill is a great milestone in the evolution of our Theravada Buddhist nation.
Gone are the days when people believed that decomposing flesh from dead animals, birds and fish nourinh one’s body.
That is completely false.
We often see dogs that are knocked down by errant motorists on the road. Imagine what the carcass of a dead dog looks like after a couple of days. Well, the effect is the same when we consume decomposing flesh.
By learning to live in harmony with animals and not treating them as a source of nourishment, we could cut back our health bill by more than 50%.
The number of cattle slaughtered worldwide.
http://www. indexmundi.com /agriculture/ ?commodity= cattle& graph=total- slaughter
Rank Country Total Slaughter (1000 HEAD)
1 India 42,100.00 (Country of Buddha;s Birth, Hindu)
2 China 40,900.00 (“Buddhist” Country)
3 Brazil 40,300.00
4 United States 32,612.00
5 EU-27 27,300.00
6 Argentina 12,400.00
7 Australia 8,100.00
8 Russian Federation 6,800.00
9 Mexico 6,300.00
10 Colombia 4,300.00
11 New Zealand 4,146.00
12 Canada 2,985.00
13 Ukraine 2,390.00
14 Uruguay 2,230.00
15 Venezuela 1,550.00
16 Egypt 1,340.00 ( Muslim)
17 Belarus 1,205.00
18 Japan 1,155.00 (“Buddhist”)
19 Korea, Republic Of 938.00
Year of Estimate: 2013
Source: United States Department of Agriculture
Amarasiri.
Why have you only got statistics for number of Cattle slaughtered around the world. What about Sri Lanka. And what about all of the other animals that are slaughtered?. What about Fish? do they not Breath and Bleed?.
This is like an ant trying to move mount Everest. Is this something we are going to achieve? Is it worth the sacrifice of a lives of human beings in the process?
These are the questions we have to ask our selves. I think we should show more compassion for our fellow human beings before start trying to change the eating habits of Sri Lankans and the world.
Sisira,
If you go to the web site, there is data on swine as well. I am sure, if chicken, other birds and fish are included, the numbers are quite large. However, now it is an industry, an agricultural industry.
Man was a hunter gatherer for survival, and so were the Veddahs. If not, humans may have gone extinct. Yes, we need to show more compassion to our fellow human beings, and our species and not go extinct, because we all are infected with the Race or Religion Mind Virus, and not forget that we came out of Africa 70,000 years or 2,000 generations ago.
The carnivores depend on the herbivores for survival. The lions and tigers depend on the cows, goats and deer for survival. According to Monk Mahanama, Vijays’s grandfather was a lion, and if you believe that, as such he must have killed other herbivores for survival. Tigers, when they become old and find it difficult to hunt deer, they hunt people, and become man eaters.