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/

Thursday, September 15, 2011

INDIA's Shame..!!

Every INDIAN must Read this, and when you have done Reading, Please Tell the WORLD that you are Ashamed, as Indian you must be Ashamed, the Caste Indians Must be Ashamed of them, their families and their Generations...!
One man forces and punishes other man for talking on the cell phone, or riding a bicycle, or wearing a Chapel or sandal, Or No rooms or homes for Dalits, No hair cut for Dalits, Tea or coffee in a coconut shell or some garbage tumblers?...
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Caste hindus"THE LIST"
[a Report by 150 Human Rights group, dalit groups, by Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Education Front] 
==================================================================== Untouchability Declassified
Discrimination is a dynamic industry in India. A survey recorded an astonishing 80-odd practices of untouchability—new, bizarre, vintage. BY Pallavi Polanki EMAIL AUTHOR(S)Not allowed to keep male dogs. (Why? They might breed with female dogs from upper caste neighbourhoods.)
»Separate work timings under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
»Refusal to rent houses to Dalits in certain neighbourhoods in urban areas. (Reported in Madurai, Tamil Nadu’s second largest city.)
»No door delivery by postmen; postal department prevented from hiring Dalit postmen.
»No access to the common crematorium, burial grounds.
»Prevented from having their clothes washed or ironed, or assigned separate cupboards at the laundry for clothes of Dalits.
»Refusal by barbers to cut their hair, or separate chairs for Dalits.
»Separate ration shops, or queues, or timings for Dalits.
»Offered tea in coconut shells which they can drink only by squatting on the ground.
»Prevented from renting private marriage halls, public address systems.
»Forced to cut out portion of the name that suggests respect (Madaswamy will be called Mada, Muniyaswamy Muniya).
»Attacked if they call any caste Hindu as annan (brother).
»Erecting walls (as was seen in Uthappuram) to deny Dalits access to common places.
»Elderly members of the Dalit community addressed by children of the dominant caste as poda, vada (denoting lack of respect).
»No access to temples, public streets, public taps (separate timings to collect water), public tanks, temples.
»Sapparam (temple car) not driven through areas where Dalits reside.
»Not allowed to participate in pookkuzhi (a ritual of walking on fire) during festivals.
»Two, in some cases four, tumbler system in tea-shops, one set for Dalits and categories within them, another for caste Hindus.
»Separate neighbourhoods for Dalits in villages.
»Preventing the opening of milk dairy near Dalit neighbourhoods.
»Dalit (Arunthathiyar) students compelled to clean bathrooms in schools.
»Opposition to hiring Dalit cooks in mid-day meal school kitchens.
»Engaging Dalits, Arunthathiyars especially, in conservancy work.
»Dalit workers to bring their own food-plates while others need not.
»Boycotting meetings held by Dalit Panchayat presidents.
»Preventing the opening of panchayat office buildings in Dalit areas.
NOT ALLOWED TO...
»Wear shoes or chappals
»Wear polyester dhotis
»Ride bicycles or travel in bullock carts
»Sit under bus shelters at village bus stops
»Wear a cloth headgear or carry a towel over the shoulder (as is the local practice)
»Sport a thin moustache
»Sit on benches in hotels and tea stalls
»Burst crackers during festivals
»Rear cattle
»Sing or speak at village functions or participate in auctions
»Dine with caste Hindus
OBLIGATED TO
»Offer goats gratis to descendants of past andais (landlords in the feudal age) during festivals
»Carry dead bodies
»Work in crematoriums and at burial grounds
»Sound the parai ( drums)
»Carry message of death to people of the dominant caste (to be paid only bus fare, food only if offered)
ATROCITIES ON DALITS
»Forced to eat faeces.
»Urinating into the mouth.
»Murdered if elected as Panchayat President against the wishes of the dominant caste.
»Sexual assault on Dalit women.
»Burning alive if a Dalit fights for rights.
»Setting fire to Dalit huts.
»Tied to a tree and beaten up.
»Killing all dogs in a Dalit area if a dog of the Dalit area bites a dog that belongs to an upper caste community.
»Obstructing the common passage (if won through struggle) with mortar, grindstone and washing utensils there.
»Killing by poisoning one who inter-marries.
»Ostracising those Dalits who raise their voice for human rights.
»Attacking Dalits if they insist on using community halls.
»Making Dalits prostrate before members of the dominant caste and imposing fines on them.
»Refusal by the state administration to enforce access to burial grounds.
»Harassment and brutal attacks on Dalits by the police for fighting for their rights.
»Dalits driven away by the police for trying to enter temples
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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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