India's Revolutionary Icons who followed the paths of The Buddha

India's Revolutionary Icons who followed the paths of The Buddha
It all began with Buddha... and these are some of the great Torch Bearer's of Buddha's Dhamma.... This Blog is a Scholarly Blog created to provide insights into the life, services and Social contributions of some of the Greatest of Indian Scholars, Humanitarians, Saints and social activists about whom the vested interests and Rotten Indian media do not write. Nor there is a State or center policies to restore and protect the stunning stories of these great men and woman...let me walk you through the greatness..!!

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Father of Nation of India Dr.Bheemarao Ambedkar

The first Law Minister of India and the Father of Indian Constitution Bheemrao Ramji Ambedkar (Dr.B.R.Ambedkar)spoke, wrote and demonstrated quite extensively and comprehensively than any other known living or dead humans of India as to how treacherous, dangerous this so called Indian hindu society and it's deadly cultures that spread discrimination and bigotry between each of thousands of heterogeneous groups. To find a way to bring them all these "heterogeneous mess of India", and to put them in single order to lead a happy, free and prosperous life, to make them behave like humans and to treat fellow humans DrAmbedkar crafted this finest of the fine Constitution that even Americans refer to it when they are in crisis. Ofcourse, Dr.Ambedkar was an American Scholar and Columbia Doctorate, he did learn lots about humanity and freedom while he was in America, but he also studied American Constitution, so a well learned scholar and genius DrAmbedkar fathered the Indian constitution in real sense, he is the Father of Modern India, while SakyaMuni Buddha was the Father of ancient and all time Father of India. Here is the dedication to the Father of India: http://fatherofnationi.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Dalit Atrocity in India Continues:- Human Rights abuse by hindus

Here is a list of Dalit atrocity compiled by K.Samu, this is just a tiny fraction of the thousands and unaccounted number of human rights abuse and dalit atrocity committed by hindus in the name of caste system, if you go over the list of these atrocities, you will find it how widespread and dangerous the hindus practices and treatment of other humans in India.
Again, let me warn you about the list, this is in no way a complete list or even contemplates to be a majority of such atrocities, it is just a fraction of it, all over India, there is such a rampant amount of atrocity goes on unnoticed, unattended and uncontroled by the local, central or any govt authorities, who are all  including govt officials who are believers of such filth as caste system.
DALIT ATROCITIES - 2007
(JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2007)
Compiled By
K. SAMU
Human Rights Documentation,
Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road, New Delhi, India

Govt asks private firms to account for SC/ST staff (2)
New Delhi : Private organisations, entrepreneurs and companies may find themselves in aquandary, as Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DPP) has asked them to list detailsof SC/ST employees in their annual audit reports for 2006-07. The annual reports of a companywould be treated as 'incomplete' if they do not state the number of SC/ST employees in theorganisations. The new initiative comes in the wake of a crucial meeting of the Co-Ordination Committee on Affirmative Action (CCAA) chaired by Dr Ajay Dua, secretary, DPP, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, on November 2006. Dr Dua, also member-convener of CCAA, had met
Industry representatives to decide the future course of action to implement affirmative actions forthe disadvantaged groups of the society. "The idea to mention details of SC/ST employees in theannual report of the companies came from Dr Dua. The Industry would try its best to compilesuch details. It remains to be seen if we could force the people to disclose their caste identities.We feel disclosure of such information should be voluntarily, and not mandatory," an industrysource said. According to him, Jamshed J Irani, director, Tata Sons, and chairman of 

CIIASSOCHAM
taskforce on affirmative action, expressed reservation over the idea in the meeting of industry players and Government officials, stating that "such an exercise should be left to the individual companies to decide". To begin with, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, the nodal agency for implementation of quota in private sector through affirmative action, has asked Industry players to "incorporate the data of SCs/STs recruited from January 2007 onwards in the annual report of 2006-07".
The Centre has also fixed March 2007 as the
deadline for the industry to collect data to assess the share of SC/ST in the private sector jobs.
The cut-off date for compiling the information is January 1, 2007. Since the private sector in the
country employs around 8 million people in the country, the SC/ST should account for over 17.6
lakh in the total jobs against 22.2 per cent quota norm earmarked for them………(Pioneer 3/1/06)

`Dalits, tribals launguishing in jails' (2)
BERHAMPUR: Ninety-two innocent dalits and tribals are languishing in Orissa jails being falsely
termed as naxal supporters, alleged the State unit of the CPI-Maoist party. In press note signed
by Sunil, secretary of the Orissa unit, the Maoists alleged that these prisoners were being treatedinhumanly in the jails. According to them 29 such prisoners were lodged at Berhampur circle jail,26 at Sambalpur jail, 23 at Malkangiri jail, three at Paralakhemundi jail, two at R. Udaygiri sub-jail,three at Rayagada jail, and six at Rourkela jail. According to them, a cancer patient named Natha Pradhan from Jajpur area arrested in the name of his alleged naxal connections was also fighting for his life inside the jail. The Maoists said the atrocities on dalits and tribals living in remote areas of the State had increased during the tenure of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The Naveen Patnaik Government has joined hands with the fundamentalist BJP to be in power but was hand in hand with the Congress to continue atrocities. (The Hindu 4/1/07)

Here is the link to the full list: Dalit Atrocity 2007

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WESTERN BUDDHISTS TO LEARN FROM AMERICAN JEWS By PPLakshmanJi

I read with great interest "A Challenge to Buddhism" by Ven.Bhikkhu Bodhi that I was fortunate to read on the internet. 
We all know and revere Bhikkhu Bodhi. His talks and writings are always inspiring and  provocative. His distress evident in the above-mentioned article will be shared by all those who read it.
Of late we have been hearing a lot about the expression  "Engaged Buddhism". I find the expression mostly among the Mahayanists rather than among the Therawadis in the Western world. Mahayanists also use the expression "Humanistic Buddhism". To everyone who is not a Buddhist, it simply means Applied Buddhism or practical Budhism.
There has been  challenges to Buddhism in all eras. To my mind, there is no greater solution, no enduring remedy to the challenges in any era than the creation of Buddha's disciples known as Arhants who would advice and give lead to people to solve their problems as and when they arise, regardless of color, race, creed or nation. Whatever the problems - social problems like injustice or natural catastrophies like earthquake or global problems like climate change 
-  the cutting edges of weapons in Buddhist armory to counter them always lay in individuals in the first instance, and subsequently in their organizations, with or without the support of governments. Therawada Buddhism which I am more familiar with has had a monastic order in place since Buddha'.s time where trained monks are turned out in large numbers, year after year, in Therawada countries -  Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia.  Many of the trained monastics become bodhisatvas (seekers of enlightenment), few if any become fully enlightened worthy ones known as arhants who are worthy to advice and lead. Finding arhants is like mining for diamonds.
Many of the social service organizations, Buddhist or other,  fail because of the absence of arhants, the fully enlightened ones, to lead them. The fully enlightened arhants emerge out of the multitudes of monks, worthy to advice and worthy to lead..  
 
There have been a plethora of institutions with long histories of social service like the CARE, the American Peace Core, Red Cross, YMCAs, and many others. Bhikkhu Bodhi has mentioned American Jewish World Service (AJWS) which is relatively a new organization like the Islamic Relief USA and others, all of which "aiming to alleviate suffering, hunger, illiteracy and disease, worldwide". On the other hand,  organizations with limited goals also take birth like the Armenian Relief Society with its limited goal of serving the humanitarian needs of the Armenian people worldwide, who still suffer from the effects of its underreported holocaust of early 20th century. I wonder what make AJWS exceptional. 

Has AJWS  tested its declared objective of social service on the soils of Israel's next door neighbors or in the  Arab sector inside Israel itself?  Some material on the internet gave me the impression that AJWS perhaps took birth out of cognitive dissonance among American Jews suffering from psychological conflicts between incompatible beliefs and attitudes.  
The highly efficient style of working of organizations like AJWS backed by media support can make favourable impression of them even if they do not have enlightened leaders and violate one or more of the five precepts that the Buddhists always practise in all their endeavours.
Social service is the objective of most organizations, but they have besides social service something which make them distinct. For instance, the U.S. after taking thousands of lives in Japan with their nuclear armory seek to create a better image of the U.S.with its Peace Core volunteers, YMCAs seek to spread Christian messages behind their altruism,  what if AJWS seeks to show Jewish presence in world service, no matter that the Jews are only 0.2 percent of a world population of 7 billion.   
 
I wish to draw the attention of my readers to an organization which I had in  mind when I wrote earlier in this piece about arhants and searching for them like mining for diamonds. 
The organization is called Fo Guang Shan (FGS), which means literally "Buddha's Light Mountain", and its organizer is Master Venerable Hsing Yun, born in mainland China in 1927. Master Venrable Hsing Yun founded FGS in 1967 in a remote quiet area in the hills of  Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. It is a Mahayana Buddhist order promoting Humanistic Budddhism, a modern Chinese philosophy. Humanistic Buddhism aims to make Buddhism relevant in the world and in the people's lives and hearts. It is a monastic order and not a theoretical school of thought per se.
In May 1997, Hsing Yun got the gates of FGS closed to the general public in order to give a cloistered atmosphere to the temple residents.
But, following the plea of the public headed by the President of Taiwan, FGS reopened the gates in December 2000. In the last 40 years since its inception, FGS has been remarkably successful in extending its services beyond Taiwan,  setting up temples and organizations in 173 countries and encompassing more than 3,500 monastics. FGS also created an affiliate in 1992, Buddha's  Light International Association (BLIA),  
which has now over 100 chapters in the world.  The monastic order represented by Fo Guang Shan and Buddha's Light International Association has now over a milliom followers worldwide. It has been said  "In Master Venerable Hsing Yun, Buddhism has found a reformer, an innovator and an educator. Under his strong  leadership, Buddhism has extended beyond traditional temple life to integrate and further enrich the modern city dwellers."
 
 P.P.Lakshman
December 18, 2008
 
 

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Ravana & the depiction of 10 Heads? What is the Rationale?

Ravana's ten heads represent the ten crowns he wore as a result of his being the sovereign of ten countries.