Bijhu Nijeni 2011 - MAADI
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Buddhism won The Best Religion in the World Award Linda Moulin, 15-07-2009, 16.55 Tribune de Geneve Buddhism won The Best Religion in the World Award 15 July 2009, Tribune de Geneve, the Geneva based International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and Spirituality (ICARUS) has bestowed `The Best Religion in the World’ award this year on the Buddhist Community. This special award was voted on by an International round table of more than 200 religious leaders from every part of the spiritual spectrum. It was fascinating to note that many religious leaders voted for Buddhism rather than their own religion although Buddhists actually make up a tiny minority of ICARUS membership. Here are the comments by four voting members : Jonna Holt, Director of Research for ICARUS said, “It wasn’t a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in contrast to every other religion that seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition.” A Catholic Priest, Father Ted O’Shaughnessy said from Belfast, “As much as I love the Catholic Church, it has always bothered me to no end that we preach love in our scripture yet then claim to know God’s will when it comes to killings other humans. For that reason, I did have to cast my vote for the Buddhists.” Muslim Cleric Tal Bin Wassad agreed from Pakistan via his translator..”While I am a devout Muslim, I can see how much anger and bloodshed is channeled into religious expression rather than dealt with on a personal level. The Buddhists have that figured out,” Bin Wassad, the ICARUS voting member of Pakistan’s Muslim community continued, “In fact, some of my best friends are Buddhists.” And Rabbi Shmuel Wasserstein said from Jerusalem, “Of course, I love Judaism, and I think it’s the greatest religion in the world. But to be honest. I’ve been practicing Vipassana meditation every day before minyan (daily Jewish prayer) since 1993. So I get it. However, there was one snag – ICARUS couldn’t find any one to give the award to. All the Buddhists they called kept saying they didn’t want the award. When asked why the Burmese Buddhist community refused the award, Buddhist monk Bhante Ghurata Hanta said from Burma, “We are grateful for the acknowledgement, but we give this award to all humanity, for Buddha nature lies within each of us.” Grohlichen went on to say. “We’re going to keep calling around untill we find a Buddhist who will accept it. We’ll let you know when we do.” BB vIyUElt gIEsgIH 2011 BB 66 BB
A glance towards Chakma people in Arunachal Pradesh Vivekananda Chakma Historical background of Chakma people in Arunachal Pradesh :- In 1961, was a historic year in the history of Chakmas; because a huge setback came to Chakma people in that year. A dam called ‘Kaptai’ was built by the East Pakistan (earstwhile Bangladesh), tragedically changed the fortune of our Chakma people. Most of areas occupied by our people got submerged due to construction of Kaptai Dam; the overflowing dam water changed its direction and headed towards Chakma’s settlement areas. Many people lost their homes and cultivated fertile agricultural lands. Those landless people came to India as “Refugees” seeking refuge of Indian Government, headed by Late. Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister of India) who’s sympathetically provided help to common needy people. She took those Chakma people to NEFA (Arunachal Pradesh), Eastern part of India. Since onwards Chakma people began to settle themselves there and started living the most hardship lives. Culture, Tradition and Religion of the Chakmas:- Nothing looks harder than staying in an environment full of opposition against Chakma people’s settlement by other unaware tribes. These local tribes did everything they could do to drive Chakmas away from there, but they failed to do so as Chakmas stayed patiently, tolerating every insult thrown to them. However, under such circumstances, those people could preserve their cultures and traditions. Traditionally we (Chakmas) all are Buddhist by religion. Today I am very happy to see our Religion cul BB vIyUElt gIEsgIH 2011 BB tures and tradition are still surviving despite of so much opposition.Festivals like Bizu, Aalphaloni etc are still celebrated with great enthusiasm by our people showing loyality to ones cultural traditions. Education in Chakma areas:- With the continuous damage done by “Dhing” river to Chakmas cultivated lands, a sign of sorrows and worries as well as land crisis among people as the main source of income is Cultivation. Earlier we have only two middle schools and one secondary school in our dominated areas. After completion of middle and secondary level we are bound to shift ourselves to another state for higher education. But In the last few years we have got few Govt. Primary Schools. But we are so unfortunate that government is unable to provide sufficient teacher in the designated areas. Our Educated and enlightened persons knew these problems and resorted education as a tool to fight against all these odds; they started running private schools like Sneha School (Secondary level), Bodhi Gyan (Primary Level) and Maha Bodhi School (Secondary level). With their great contribution to the society we are getting good quality education. This resulted increasing in popularity of education among the people which becomes a pillar of Chakma society of Arunachal Pradesh. Again we are very much grateful and thankful to All Arunachal Pradesh Chakma Student’s Union who organized public awareness campaign in village to village about the importance of education which led to increase the literacy rate in our community. 67 BB
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Buddhism won The Best Religion<br />
in the World Award<br />
Linda Moulin, 15-07-2009, 16.55<br />
Tribune de Geneve<br />
Buddhism won The Best Religion in the World Award 15 July 2009, Tribune de<br />
Geneve, the Geneva based International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and<br />
Spirituality (ICARUS) has bestowed `The Best Religion in the World’ award this year on<br />
the Buddhist Community.<br />
This special award was voted on by an International round table of more than 200<br />
religious leaders from every part of the spiritual spectrum. It was fascinating to note that<br />
many religious leaders voted for Buddhism rather than their own religion although Buddhists<br />
actually make up a tiny minority of ICARUS membership. Here are the comments by<br />
four voting members :<br />
Jonna Holt, Director of Research for ICARUS said, “It wasn’t a surprise to me that<br />
Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single<br />
instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in contrast to every other religion that<br />
seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed<br />
to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they<br />
preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition.”<br />
A Catholic Priest, Father Ted O’Shaughnessy said from Belfast, “As much as I love the<br />
Catholic Church, it has always bothered me to no end that we preach love in our scripture<br />
yet then claim to know God’s will when it comes to killings other humans. For that reason,<br />
I did have to cast my vote for the Buddhists.”<br />
Muslim Cleric Tal Bin Wassad agreed from Pakistan via his translator..”While I am<br />
a devout Muslim, I can see how much anger and bloodshed is channeled into religious<br />
expression rather than dealt with on a personal level. The Buddhists have that figured out,”<br />
Bin Wassad, the ICARUS voting member of Pakistan’s Muslim community continued, “In<br />
fact, some of my best friends are Buddhists.”<br />
And Rabbi Shmuel Wasserstein said from Jerusalem, “Of course, I love Judaism,<br />
and I think it’s the greatest religion in the world. But to be honest. I’ve been practicing<br />
Vipassana meditation every day before minyan (daily Jewish prayer) since 1993. So I get it.<br />
However, there was one snag – ICARUS couldn’t find any one to give the award<br />
to. All the Buddhists they called kept saying they didn’t want the award.<br />
When asked why the Burmese Buddhist community refused the award, Buddhist<br />
monk Bhante Ghurata Hanta said from Burma, “We are grateful for the acknowledgement,<br />
but we give this award to all humanity, for Buddha nature lies within each of us.” Grohlichen<br />
went on to say. “We’re going to keep calling around untill we find a Buddhist who will<br />
accept it. We’ll let you know when we do.”<br />
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<strong>2011</strong> BB<br />
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