Stop attacks on Muslims – Dalai Lama tells Lankan Monks
Posted by Editor on May 8, 2013 - 2:43 pm
The Dalai Lama has implored Buddhist monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to put an end to a series of recent attacks on Muslims in their countries. He said Buddhists, including monks, were responsible for recent violence against Muslims in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader spoke Tuesday night about religious violence when asked questions following a speech he delivered to 15,000 people at the University of Maryland. He condemned all killing being carried out in the name of religion and then turned to his own religion.
Myanmar has been wracked by sectarian violence that has displaced tens of thousands over the past year, while Sri Lankan Buddhist groups have recently attacked Muslim businesses, AP reports.
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Sorry…venerable Sir……you don’t know anything about this….they are (Muslims) taking “taking flame undewater”….am extremely sorry to comment on your words…but that’s the truth…you didn’t have the clear picture……
mr chula
if muslims takes flames under water then remember the same muslim countries supported you Sri-lanka in the UN the same muslims that have given millions of aid to Sri_lanka its the same Muslims that give employment opportunities in the middle east when you say muslim no matter what part of the world we live in we are all muslims and its the same muslims that fought wars against the portugese Duthch and the British empires when the tried to take over sri-lanka like it or not we are all sri-lankans
We need a peaceful solution for tension between Sinhala and Muslim people. There are extremist groups in both.
Both parties should tolerate and compromise in this case.
The core problem in Sri Lanka Sinhala “Buddhism” is the Monk Mahanama and his myths.
So, only in Sri Lanka ha Buddhism resulted in Racism.
That is NOT what Lord Buddha taught us all.
Venerable Dalai Lama, you are assuming like all others it is Buddhism that is practiced in Sri Lanka. It is NOT Buddhism. It is called Racism. It is like saying the German Nazis were Christians who practiced Christianity.No. It was Racism.
That is where the core problem lies. Sri Lanka had a 3 year separatist war because of this racism.
May be you should visit Sri Lanka and teach the TRUE BUDDHISM as taught by the Enlightened Buddha.
Do not involved with dirty political leaders. It is really sad we are facing unwanted challenges within the people becasue of no honest leaders in sri lnaka. After 1977, we lost real leaders, that is the reason all kind of issues today. I am sure whoever responsible for these incidents will pay the price sonner than later.
We Sinhalese, muslims, tamils and others live together, but due to selfish leaders we are facing challenges within the all communities.
Sri Lanka, the land of theravada buddhists where Buddhism grows in its pristine form, does not require the support of any nation.
We are self sufficient in our philosophy and in economics. The oil wealth being grabbed by the long bearded rich in Moslem countries has never been utilised to assist the meek in socities.
One thing the theravada Buddhist inhabitants cannot tolerate is exploitation. The Tamils, calling themselves minoririties, exploited the largesse of hearts. Likewise, the Moslems who inhabit our lands also exploit society with their commercail prowess.
Oraganisations such as Bodhu Bala Sena are attemting to educate the theravada Buddhist population of inherent dangers in the antics of the Tamils and Moslems.
Our valiant armed forces can only protects us with fire power. But the Bodhu Bala Sena is leading a moral resurgence which will assist in defetaing separatist forces with the power of reason.
Extreme Muslim groups are implementing inconvenient practices in Sri Lanka such as whatever they call the dress covering eyes and mouth. It was not there in Sri Lanka some times ago.They started strong Halal certification but it was not there too in Sri Lanka some times ago. So my opinion is every religious practice or cultural behavior should understand their limits which should not by pass or violate other cultural limits.
YOU TAKING WRONG FIRST CHECK AND TALK LIKE
Muslims within our society are parasites. They turn allegiances to other communities at every opportunity to gain primarily some benefit to themselves in the form of commercial return, social security etc.
Now that they are under the microscope, they are changing allegiance to the LTT proxy party in an attempt to twist the law to their benefit.
The current Chief Justice is a strong man and will not permit the Courts to be twisted to the whims and fancies of a minority community.
Chumpa,
Your racist comments are not warrated in this esteemed blog. You ought to clean up or get out.
My advice is, to the Tamils not to join the Muslims to fight for justice. We had a war for the lasdt 30 years, where both parties suffered enough. We were swimming in blood. Now it is the best chance for the Tamils to approach the Government with their grievances and not join the Muslims to gain justice. I have nothing against the Muslims asking for justice, but dont involve the Tamils. We sufferd enough and now we must forgive and try our best to live in harmony.
It is so sad to hear read all the negative comments from adults who are speaking of cast & religion in this day an age. All Sri Lanakas need to try and live in harmony and teach their children to live in harmony with each other.
Not all muslims ,Tamils or Sinhalese or even burghers are bad so please don’t generalise any particular cast or religion.
We are just recovering from a war and are we looking for more trouble. Think of your kids. It is no wonder that most decent young educated families are leaving the country in to look for better pastures even knowing that they will have a struggle to start a new life in another country. Unfortunately what will happen is that all that will be left in S Lanka will be the thugs and the extremist and the poor. Good luck to all you trouble makers . I hope you eat your own shit one day.
you people are sick, give a good enviorment for your kids to live.
Well said Mr. Sisira
chula yes muslims flames under water what can you do? even you can not remove a single hair from muslims.mind it.
chandini pera
if sl is self sufficient, why the hell sl workers giving a## to Arabs.may be u also a victim.
when bloody LTTE chased muslims from north in 90’s, they suffered a lot but praba and his team paid for that after 19 yrs.so if any one insult muslims definitely pay for that but may be it would take some times.
we just come out from a dark era and our children are lucky to grow up in a safe war free country now. this is what we were waiting for ages.. so please my fellow sri lankans lets prove the whole world that we all are only sri lankans.. not separated by any religions or any group. muslims in sri lanka is peace loving ppls. we call them thambi which means younger brothers. let our younger brothers live their life further. this is their country too… please divide the country again for political benefits of a few numbers of ppls. i believe more than 95% of fellow Buddhist in sri lanka thinks the same as i think… THERUWAN SARANAI
Hon.Thera,
Have you ever visit to Srilanka?We donot have any releigous violence in Srilanka.Somebody has shown you a bad picture about us. pl.come and see how the majority of all comunities liveing peacefully.Theruwan saranai!