By Justin Whitaker As violence has flared up again in Burma (Myanmar) this month, the word that most aptly describes the situation is: complex. News headlines might suggest otherwise, pointing a finger squarely at the […]
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Buddhist-Muslim Commitment to Action and the Dusit Declaration
Buddhist and Muslim leaders from South and South East Asian countries including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, have gathered in Bangkok, Thailand to address escalating tensions between two communities and potential spread […]
Punk rockers in Burma speak out against Buddhist monks instigating violence against Muslims while other groups in Myanmar are silent
“It’s not perpetrators that are the problem here,” he says, pointing to conditions that paved the way for the Holocaust in Germany and the genocide in Rwanda, in Africa. “It’s the bystanders.” It’s a shame […]
Myanmar Mosque, Muslim Orphanage Burned After Alleged Immolation Of Buddhist Woman
… The rioting in Lashio started Tuesday after reports that a Muslim man had splashed gasoline on a Buddhist woman and set her on fire. The man was arrested. The woman was hospitalized with burns […]
Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims? Alan Strathern on BBC News
In a recent post, Buddhist Monks as Hate Preachers & Sexual Abuse, I mainly referred to sad developments within the global Buddhist community where Buddhist monks spread words of hate, actions that harm others, themselves as […]
Buddhist Monks as Hate Preachers & Sexual Abuse
There are some negative developments in the Buddhist world for which Buddhists should be ashamed, and if possible take up responsibility to counter them. One of them is that the Rohingya – a Muslim minority […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 