Dalai Lama regretted the skewed perception of Islam =)

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Dalai Lama delinks religion from terror​

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Sunday 16 April 2006, 8:50 Makka Time, 5:50 GMT
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Caption: The spiritual leader regretted the skewed perception of Islam
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The Dalai Lama has defended Islam at an historic religious gathering in San Francisco, saying suicide bombings were tragic "mischief" that could plague any religion.
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The Dalai Lama took centre stage on Saturday at an anti-terror summit with Muslim clerics and other religious leaders from around the world.
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Tibet's spiritual leader came in response to a prominent California imam's invitation to help form a "United Nations of Religion" devoted to countering extremist violence.
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Imam Seyed Mehdi Khorasani said the idea came after he met Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso in the US state of Idaho late last year.
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Religious leaders and scholars from approximately 30 countries were brought to San Francisco, which Khorasani said was selected because it was where the United Nations was founded.
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Organisers heralded the assembly as the establishment of a multi-religious body that will work to quell violence and promote harmony between people of different faiths. ^^
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The Dalai Lama said: "Nowadays, to some people, the Muslim tradition appears more militant. I feel that's totally wrong. Muslim, like any other tradition, is the practice of compassion."
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He said suicide bombings and other violence by extremists have unfairly skewed the world's perception of Islam.
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"Such mischievous people are not just in the Muslim community, but among the Hindus, the Christians, the Buddhists. In any community, a few mischievous people are always there."
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Unity urged
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The Dalai Lama urged the leaders of all faiths to stand together on their common ground to defend Islam and promote the ideal of respecting the faiths of individuals while embracing religious diversity in communities.
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He said: "In some respects, I am one of the defenders of Muslim tradition. If one believer, one tradition, is getting criticism, we have to act. Thank you Dalai, may Allah bless you =)
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"I feel, this moment, we Buddhists and other traditions must come together." AFP
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Source:
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C8EE0396-F665-4B1A-95B4-D5371025C628.htm
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He's a good man the Dalai Lama.

And no doubt he's right here.

 

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The Dalai Lama looks like he's about to burst out laughing in the second picture there, I love it! That Rabbi looks pretty happy too. The guy in the middle though, looks a bit constipated. I wonder what he thinks of multi-faith gatherings...

 

Wish to see more other people from different religions and beliefs in the future not Just 5 =)​

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The Dalai Lama is a kind and peaceful person. He doesnt have a hostile agenda against other religions. I saw him on Barbara Walter's espisode about Heaven, he was such a nice guy

 

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aaah that's great!!!!
gives our own little struggle a nice push in the back.
the dalai lama will get respect for saying this, people will listen to him!
when me and friends defended the islam we got as much criticism as the muslims do...

 

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Dear peaceful member lovelightlisa ^^​

Thank you sister for doing so, I do appreciate it Deeply and Strongly, may Allah bless you and bless your friends, my very special regards to you and to your friends​

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Thank YOU for your beautiful posts on islam here on hipforums.
They are a great inspiration, and give something to think about
May Allah bless you too.

 

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You are more than welcome, I Thank YOU for reading them and for these nice words, yeah they are beatiful because Islam is beatiful ^^​

may Allah bless you Three may Allah bless you more =)​

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As a Buddhist I respect and see the truth in all religions...And so I feel especially sad about all the mindless hate that is being directed muslims and the religion of islam across the world...It's especially sad when members of my own family are guilty of this...

These are very dangerous times for everyone in the world, especially for religion and spirituality, so this couldn't have come at a more needy time. We need the UNITY between all of us.

Whether you follow a spiritual path or not you cannot deny the incredible work the Dalai Lama has done his whole life and continues to do for the sole aim of peace. Even just looking at a photo of his holiness you can feel the compassion and kindness almost radiate from him. The kind of love that expects nothing in return.

 

I had a thread about the dali lama a while ago

he has said that

The dali lama said that homosexual sex and lesbian sex were a sin.
that oral and anal sex between hetrosexual couples was a sin.
he said that masterbation is forbidden .

that sex in the daytime was a sin !!!!!!!

generally I think hes just one of these guys who doesnt know what the hell hes on about, but for some reason the media see him and cat stevens a man who wants to see authors burned to death as these peaceful men .

its a funny old world when you think about it, full of really gullible people looking for two bit gurus

 

I think that's total nonsense.

The vast majority of Buddhists have no problem with homosexuality, oral sex, anal sex or masturbation.

I've never met any that have.

Maybe you should take a look at some of the wonderful work the dalai lama has done towards peace and stability in Tibet for instance...For some reason you chose to ignore this fact and the fact that he's a noble peace prize winner.

But hey it's your opinion, you'll believe what you want to believe I can't change that and wont try. All i'll say is that those comments are totally untrue and Buddhism isn't against homosexuality. I'm sorry but thats just misinformation I have no idea where you read that or who told you that but I suggest you learn more about Buddhism and check your sources and what context they were spoken in before posting.

Peace to you.

 

hmmm no its not my opinion its the dali lamas opinion .

I get sick of people telling me I dont know what Im talking about concerning islam and being unable to back it up, and now it appears the same things happens concerning the dali lama

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/01/wdalai01.xml



"is a surprisingly harsh critic of homosexuality. If you are a Buddhist, he says, it is wrong. "Full stop.

No way round it.

"A gay couple came to see me, seeking my support and blessing. I had to explain our teachings. Another lady introduced another woman as her wife - astonishing. It is the same with a husband and wife using certain sexual practices. Using the other two holes is wrong."

At this point, he looks across at his interpreter - who seems mainly redundant - to check that he has been using the right English words to discuss this delicate matter. The interpreter gives a barely perceptible nod.

"A Western friend asked me what harm could there be between consenting adults having oral sex, if they enjoyed it," the Dalai Lama continues, warming to his theme. "But the purpose of sex is reproduction, according to Buddhism. The other holes don't create life. I don't mind - but I can't condone this way of life."

this was a recent interview but he has said the same before

At a press conference in 1997-JUN, he commented: "From a Buddhist point of view [lesbian and gay sex]...is generally considered sexual misconduct". This belief is not based on the partners being of the same gender. In his book "Beyond Dogma," he has written that "homosexuality, whether it is between men or between women, is not improper in itself. What is improper is the use of organs already defined as inappropriate for sexual contact." Buddhism prohibits oral, manual and anal sex for everyone - both homosexuals and heterosexuals. However, these restrictions refer only to members of the Buddhist faith.

and having a peace prize doesnt impress me that much either yasser arafat had one too

 

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Quraan:We feed you, for the sake of Allah only. We wish for no reward nor thanks from you

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Islam in the eyes of Dalai Lama




What can be more astonishing between a saint confusing people and a rogue speaking the truth? Two such unexpected observations became media bytes recently. The Dalai Lama, on a month-long trip to the US and South America, said at San Francisco and Chicago that Islam is a religion of compassion which is being unfairly marginalised by few extremists. Ye Xiaowen, the Director of State Administration for Religious Affairs, recently said that Buddhism can reduce social divisions in China better than Islam and Christianity, adding Buddhism can help believers cope with fast-changing society plagued by wealth gap and social unrest.



In the past, the Dalai Lama has criticised both Christianity and Islam for their evangelisation and conversion programmes. Communist China has persecuted all religions including Buddhism. But now, faced with Christian evangelisation and Islamic resurgence, China wants to promote Buddhism, which is also in sync with the ageless Chinese ethos. Intriguingly, Buddhism can help cope with psychological problems amongst people of China, the country with highest execution and suicide rate.



I hold the Dalai Lama in the highest esteem. However, his certification of Islam left me bewildered. It might be true that only a minuscule section of Muslims is indulging in suicide bombing. But why is this section not inspired to work among the sick, poor, illiterate and lepers like Christians? The answer would seem to lie in the analysis of the lives of Jesus Christ and Mohammed, which adherents of the respective religions follow. Why is there a difference between Yasser Arafat and the Dalai Lama when both Palestine and Tibet are "occupied territories"?



I was going through the schedule of the Dalai Lama's forthcoming tours on his website. After visiting the US, he is going to Latin America, then Belgium before returning to India. He then goes to France and the US. Early this year, he visited Israel where he addressed an audience at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. But does he visit Islamic countries like Syria, Morocco, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan? Will he be heard in these countries the way he is in Europe and America? Israelis visit Dharamsala in droves. But do Arabs visit him? It is the same story with Hindu monks as well, who fly from India to England, France and the US (leaving the stretch between Pakistan and Morocco).



There can be no bitter irony than a Buddhist monk defending Islam as religion of compassion. Except for mountainous pockets like Ladakh, Tibet and the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Buddhism disappeared from India under the sword of Islam. BR Ambedkar, who later embraced Buddhism along with his followers, writes in the essay, 'The Decline and Fall of Buddhism', "There can be no doubt that the fall of Buddhism in India was due to the invasions of the Musalmans. Islam came out as the enemy of the 'but'. The word 'but', as everybody knows, is an Arabic word and means an idol. Not many people, however, know what the derivation of the world 'but' is. 'But' is the Arabic corruption of Buddha. Thus the origin of the word indicates that in Moslem mind idol worship had come to be identified with the Religion of Buddha. To the Muslims, they were one and the same thing. The mission to break the idols thus became the mission to destroy Buddhism. Islam destroyed Buddhism not only in India but wherever it went. Before Islam came into being, Buddhism was the religion of Bactria, Parthia, Afghanistan, Gandhar and Chinese Turkestan, as it was of the whole of Asia. In all these countries Islam destroyed Buddhism... (Writings and Speeches, Vol 3, p 230)



He continues: "The Musalman invaders sacked the Buddhist Universities of Nalanda, Vikramsila, Jagaddala, Odantipur to name a few. They razed to the ground Buddhist monasteries with which the country was studded. The monks fled away in thousands to Nepal, Tibet and other places outside India. Muslim commanders killed a very large number outright. How the Buddhist priesthood perished by the sword of the Muslim invaders has been recorded by the Muslim historians themselves...".



Seen in this light the destruction of Bamiyan Buddha by the Taliban in February 2001 does not seem out of place. Smashing the head of Brahma in Thao Maha Brahma or Phra Phrom Erawan Shrine in Bangkok on March 21, the "mentally disturbed" Muslim youth who did it, proved there is a method in this madness. It reflects the atavistic iconoclastic behaviour of Islam. The tragedy of Chakmas (Buddhists) in CHT is also on predictable lines. It will be interesting to know whether the Buddhists of Ladakh and CHT too feel Islam as a religion of compassion.



Peace Campaign Group (PCG) is a New Delhi-based organisation run by Chakmas, who are Buddhist monks as well, but who fled Bangladesh due to Islamic persecution in the early 1990s. They later obtained Indian citizenships and now actively focus on human rights violation in CHT. PCG recently demanded a Darfur-like UN intervention in CHT, which has been a victim of Islamic demographic aggression, systematically carried out by Bangladesh. Bhante Bhikkhu Prajnalankar, general secretary of PCG, travels around the world on a shoestring budget, to highlight the plight of his people in Bangladesh. A monk, he has no inclination to teach the world Zen and Nirvana. Pursuing Nirvana, he says, will not help when the ground beneath your feet is taken away.



Buddhist Thailand is more aware. It has a no-nonsense approach towards the Islamic secessioism in the south - Narathiwat, Pattani, Songhkla and Yala. Buddhists civilians are frequent targets of Muslim attacks in Narathiwat province of Thailand. But the Thai Government's approach is as decisive as it could be in a democracy. On October 26, 2004, Thailand police entered a historic mosque in Pattani where recalcitrant elements had made a stronghold, and flushed them out. Seventy-eight detained Muslims perished, many of them crushed and suffocated, after hundreds of detainees were loaded in two trucks. Thailand rejected any UN probe into the massacre of Islamist militants in southern Thailand.



Buddhism is a compassionate religion; with its stress on non-violence, it was ill-prepared to meet Islam militarily. The Dalai Lama's comments reminds me of Gandhi, whose message of compassion found no takers amongst Muslims. Speaking about Gandhi's tour of England during Second Round Table Conference, Subhas Chandra Bose said, "During his stay in England, he had to play two roles in one person, the role of a political leader and that of a world-teacher. Sometimes he conducted himself not as a political leader who had come to negotiate with the enemy, but as a master who had come to preach a new faith - that of non-violence and world-peace." (The Indian Struggle 1920-1942, p 252). The Dalai Lama is playing world teacher, more than Tibetan supreme leader, and this time he has gone overboard.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/columni...lumnist&file_name=punj/punj83.txt&writer=punj

 

'Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss'

'Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again...'