Buddhagaya Vihar and VedicTerror in Buddhist India

Author: Sona Kanti Barua

Introduction

Buddhgaya Vihar, A place Buddha was born.

August 8, 2011 Buddhagaya, Bihar (India) , about 2600 years ago Gautama Buddha was supremely enlightened at Buddhagaya and there is a sinister conspiracy to change the Buddhagaya’s Mahabodhi Temple into a Hindu temple by Hindu fundamentalists in India.  South Asian news agency reported that India and Bihar Governments’ neglects found at fault and a total shutdown was observed in this Buddhagaya of this Bihar town, known as the most sacred pilgrimage place of the Buddhist world. People irrespective of religions including local traders, hoteliers and Buddhist Monks Community observed the shutdown that severely affected normal life to protest the district magistrate’s anti-encroachment drive dated August 8, 2011. “The state government had directed the district administration to demolish illegal construction near the 1,500 year old Mahabodhi temple in Buddhagaya to create a buffer zone as per UNESCO plans;” a district officer said.  The state government of Bihar had however, admitted that new structures have come up within the restricted area.

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Al–Qaeda Group suspect in Bali and Bangladesh Terror explosion

By Sona Kanti Barua

2013 Muslim Fundamentalism

Muslims fundamentalists (Taliaban, Al-quida, Mujaheedin etc) copied violence from the Brahmin and Hindu fundamentalists and let us see what happens in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Pakistan, Bangladesh and India’s minority and peace loving Muslim people are appealing to the world conscience, world mass media and the United Nations for security in their homelands. The Jamaitul Mujahideen group calls for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in Bangladesh while nation’s worst fears came true when the nation stood terrorized as set of off 400 bombs on August 17, 2005. So, Al – Qaeda Group suspect in Bali and Bangladesh Terror explosion. Buddhists all over the world have been shocked in January 1985 upon reading the news of the outrage at Borobudur Bombing in Indonesia.  

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Buddhism and Japanese

Characteristics of Existence

By Sona Kanti Barua

Different Characteristics of Society Existence

The Buddha taught, “All conditioned things, are impermanent, all conditioned things are suffering or discontent and all things are without substance.” 14 The Buddha’s teaching is centered on the natural law of depended origination or the `Theory of Relation of Phenomena.’  The Buddha discovered natural laws (Dharma) of arising of problems of life and solving of problems of life. A sincere Buddhist learns that sensuous pleasure is transient. With this understanding a Buddhist scholar does not classify natural laws the same way as a physicist. The aim of his study in the same i.e. he seeks happiness. What is arises that is subject to destruction. This is the teaching of the Buddha. So the ultimate happiness or salvation of Buddhism is Nirvana. There are many who have got a wrong notion that Nirvana is negative and implies ending of self.

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8 Kinds of Ordination

1.  ‘Ehi Bhikkhu……’    ‘Come, O monks….’

Monks going to Als-Round

This was the first kind of ordination. After listening to the discourse, any matured person who was convinced of the Dhamma, could be ordained by the Buddha in this manner. Buddha stretched his right palm and say Ehi Bhikkhu and the man would be accepted into the order. He would don his robe and shaved his head. This ordination became higher ordination at the same time. Today the tradition is different as both ordination and higher ordination are on 2 occasions. (Pabbajjan is ordination, i.e. entrance to the order. Upasampada is higher ordination.) 

Tihi Sarana gamana pabbajja

Tihi Sarana gamana pabbajja

Initially, only Buddha could ordain monks. This became time and energy consuming. Buddha then said to his monks “O monks, I advise you to give ordination and higher ordination wherever you are. Today, I’m going to share with you the ordination process. From today onwards, you will be able to ordain others.” Ordination process introduced by Buddha: - where the monks take refuge in Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.

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Is violence justified in Buddhism?

Buddhist teachings maintain that under any circumstance whether political, religious, cultural, or ethnic, violence cannot be accepted or advocated to solve disputes between nations. All Buddhist traditions unanimously agree that war cannot be the solution to disputes and conflicts either even to achieve a religious goal, violence cannot be used or applied. Theoretically, violence is not associated with Buddhism. Its “five precepts,” which all Buddhists, including monks, nuns, and lay Buddhists should observe, begins with “non-violence” or “not killing”—abstain from violence or killing. All sentient beings fear violent activities, it states, in particular, that all living beings are scared of death, all living beings value their own lives, when one is faced with violence, and one has to reflect that one’s situation is similar to that of others because of the fact that as human beings we want our own lives to be secure. Thus, the Buddhist notion of protecting all forms of life and avoiding violent activities derives from the fundamental conviction that as one’s life is worthy for oneself, others also have a similar position with respect to their own lives.

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