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Hello and many thanks.
Here on this list, what I was asking originally was about whether any Buddhists in Burma are opposing and debating the genocidal rhetoric of the ultranationalist fellow Buddhists who have been promoting the expulsion and killing of Muslim minority people in their country. But seems there is no such debate, at least not openly, and I was guessing in conclusion that this must be because most people in Burma now, including Buddhists and Buddhist clergy, if there are anyone opposed, they are afraid to speak against the prevailing atmosphere.
Some Buddhism experts I have
Dear colleagues,
the following new publications are now available from the Vienna Series for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (WSTB):
Marlene Erschbamer, "The 'Ba'-ra-ba bKa'-brgyud-pa : Historical and Contemporary Studies". WSTB 92 (2017) 279p. ISBN 13: 978-3-902501-30-1. EUR 30.00.
Erika Forte, Liang Junyan & Deborah Klimburg-Salter (eds), "Tibet in Dialogue with its Neighbours : History, Culture and Art of Central and Western Tibet, 8th to 15th century" WSTB 88 (2015) 520p. ISBN 13: 978-3-902501-26-4. EUR 50.00. This volume, published jointly with the China Tibetology Publishing House
Dear Magnus,
You have seemingly concluded that as regards the Rohingya issue, whatever dissenting voices of the Buddhist public in Burma have been "silenced or forced underground, if it continues at all" by the state machinery. I think this conclusion does not reflect the ground reality. Why?
Now, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (from now on DASSK) has declared that her government would implement the recommendations of Kofi Annan commission as quickly as they can. Those recommendations are freely available on the web, both in original English version and Burmese translation. However, I doubt if even 0
Hello and many thanks to Dr. Paul Fuller for suggestions, and to the Ven. Pandita, for very valuable nuance on the situation of monks in Burma. ... but, to me, what is still missing, it seems, is information on whether there is any debate within buddhism in Burma about what now seems to be a dominant genocide-supporting incitement rhetoric by Burmese Buddhists, actively supporting the dramatic escalation since August, in effect enabling the mass ethnic cleansing campaign by the Burmese army which is the most dramatic in all of this history of discrimination.
May I add that, while there is a
Readers may find these links of interest:
In a powerful statement, world Buddhist leaders have directly appealed the to the Myanmar Buddhist leaders to take a strong stand against hate speech and ethnic cleansing in the country. Signed by over 160 Buddhist teachers and community leaders, also call on the government and military of Myanmar, including State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, to apply their full resources in support of peace and for the protection of vulnerable communities of all religions and ethnicities. According to the statement: "We are greatly disturbed by what many in the world
The Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies, University of Calgary is pleased to present
“Recentering Buddhist Cosmology: Concepts of Geographic Space in Ritual and Art”
By Dr. Eric Huntington
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University)
One of the most common functions of religion is cosmology—explaining the origin, structure, and rules of the world in which we live. While scholars often study religious cosmology through literature, its true significance can only be understood by looking beyond texts to rituals, artwork, and architecture. In these forms, Buddhist traditions
Dear Magnus,
I am a Burmese Buddhist monk and Buddhologist, at present living abroad. I have a sort of answer to the second part of your question: "what debate there has been within Burmese Buddhism, if any?" about the Rohingya crisis.
Actually, very little. There are several reasons for this complacence (I shall use the term "Burmese" in the following to refer to non-Rohingya natives, including the Burmese majority, of Burma):
1) The Burmese do not really trust the international voice (especially the media) concerning this issue. Why? During the tenure of the previous government, there
RESOURCE> Visualization of Zotero Buddhist Studies Bibliography with VOSviewer: New Version released
Dear Colleagues,
A couple of months ago I introduced the software package VOSviewer, which generates visualization images of bibliographical and other kinds of data. At that time, VOSviewer had a serious bug such that it could not properly render diacritics and other non-roman scripts. The newly released version has corrected this:
http://www.vosviewer.com/download
When I get some spare moments, I'll generate some new visualizations for your perusal from our Zotero Buddhist Studies bibliography.
Regards,
Chuck
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