Buddhists sell a temple to raise relief funds

[truthpusher]

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=efa1946d-029d-4fb9-beba-e99bd20ae948

Buddhists sell a temple to raise relief funds

Douglas Todd
Vancouver Sun

January 4, 2005

A Buddhist abbot stunned his Burnaby congregation on Saturday when he announced they would be selling a temple worth more than $500,000 to give all the proceeds to Asia's tsunami victims.

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The startling act of generosity was just one of many that Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and aboriginal groups in B.C. and Canada were coming up with this week to aid the families of those killed, the injured and homeless across Asia.

The outpouring of compassion from a cross-section of religions marks a rare moment among the world's often-divided faiths, which are showing a united front in rushing to the aid of the mostly poor people of south Asia's shattered coast. It is home to hundreds of millions of Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Hindus.

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Speaking through a translator, the abbot said one reason he's making a large donation to tsunami victims is to say "thank you" to the hard-hit people of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, who, in the 1970s, took in him and many other members of his congregation after they fled Communist Vietnam as refugees, or "boat people."

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=efa1946d-029d-4fb9-beba-e99bd20ae948

[KingChicken]

1. Wish I could buy it back for them..... n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. compassion

and detatchment-the hallmarks of Buddhism.

[diddlysquat]

4. Exactly.

They practice what they preach.

[yinkaafrica]

9. You are a Muslim I assume

Muslims are awesome.
It so so good to see you here.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. thank you

I am a Sufi initiate. Sufis are the mystical sect of Islam, and I believe all paths lead to God.

Sufis and Buddhists get along well. Some Sufis visited His Holiness, the Dali Lama. One asked him the difference between Sufism and Buddhism. His Holiness answered:

"Oh, that's easy. In Sufism, everything is. In Buddhism, nothing is. Same thing, no difference."

[leesa]

3. So where are the "moral majority"? It almost makes you feel like the

GOP fake christians are more greedy and hateful than righteous.

[burythehatchet]

5. ...and in a related story, CBN Ministries' president Pat Robertson

announced that a special fund raising that had taken place to aid in re-furbishing his private jet, will now be re-directed to aid tsunami victims.

yeah..right

[cyberpj]

8. Ever see this page of Robertson quotes. Unbelievable.

Here's just one to get you started.......

"The mission of the Christian Coalition is simple," says Pat Robertson. It is "to mobilize Christians -- one precinct at a time, one community at a time -- until once again we are the head and not the tail, and at the top rather than the bottom of our political system." Robertson predicts that "the Christian Coalition will be the most powerful political force in America by the end of this decade." And, "We have enough votes to run this country...and when the people say, 'We've had enough,' we're going to take over!"--Pat Robertson


He has the most quotes on the page but there are other religious rights spokes people with some very scare quotes from the 90's here:


http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/7027/quotes.html

[truthpusher]

12. I see Pat and his crew (evangelicals)...

...as some pretty confused people. The idea that it doesn't matter how much somebody suffers in this life, so long as they say the Jesus prayer, when they die they will go live with Jesus in Heaven. They are nothing more than soul collectors. The notion of doing something for the suffering of the living without a chance at getting their soul, is not an option. Most of these people suffering in South Asia already got religion and it ain't the same religion as Pat Robertson's.

[Just Me]

6. Gift without "strings". An example of TRUE compassion.

Geez. Wish I could buy it,...and give it back to them.

[LynnTheDem]

7. WOW.

:wow:

Now THAT is COMPASSIONATE.

[NYC]

10. And what did Bush sell?

The Crawford pig farm? Some other large asset?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. His soul...

many years ago.

It's a family tradition.

[NYC]

13. I think he was born without one.

I truly do.

[TahitiNut]

14. You've heard of the "Immaculate Conception"?

His was the Toxic Conception. :puke:

[NYC]

15. The Demon Seed.

Maxwell Anderson. Was that it? A play about a child who was born "murderous". Total psychopath.

P.S. The "toxic conception" grew up to be "toxic waste".