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The Way Forward Contents Vol.34 No.1 January - April 2561 (2018) The way forward Contents Vol. 34 No. 1 January - April 2561 (2018) Publisher INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF 3 Editorial Note ENGAGED BUDDHISTS (INEB) 4Announcements Editorial team Ten Year Way FORWARD / Harsha Navaratne Sulak Sivaraksa (advisor) 4 Harsha Kumara Navaratne (advisor) 6 Pravit Rojanaphruk Receives Press Freedom Award Somboon Chungprampree (editor) Teodore Mayer (assistant) 7 Country Reports Arjun Kumar (assistant) Not all Buddhists agree with Sitagu Sayadaw’s Dhanakhorn Tongdeang (assistant) 7 Burma: militant message / Jacob Goldberg Cover 8 Siam: Why Buddhists fail simple test of compassion wood craf given by Sanitsuda Ekachai Ven. Bhikkhuni Wu Yin / 10 Siam: 112 Case Moves Forward Against Historian Lay-out / Pravit Rojanaphruk, Surapong Petnamlai 11 Siam: Socially Engaged Buddhist Sulak Sivaraksa Distributed by Cleared of Defamation Charge / Matteo Pistono Suksit Siam 113-115 Fuangnakorn Rd., Bangkok 10200 13 INEB Tel. (662)2259536-40 13 Press Release from the 18th Biennial Conference of the [email protected] International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) International Network of Engaged Buddhists Baht 100 per issue 14 Suggested annual subscription US $50 Focuses on Confict, Compassion, and Interbeing at 18th Biennial Conference in Taiwan Payment info: Te welcome speech for the 18th INEB Biennial t"DIFRVFQBZBCMFUPi*/&#w 18 1FSTPOBMDIFRVFTGSPNUIF6, 64 Conference / Ven. Shi Chao-Hwei and Euro are accepted. 19 Te Story of INEB t1BZQBM QMFBTFHPUPUIF*/&#XFCTJUF 27 Te Way Forward A Strategic Roadmap for INEB in Seeds of Peace the Next Decade 666 Charoen-Nakorn Road, Klongsan, Bangkok 10600 Siam Te 24th Sem Pringpuangkeo Public Lecture Tel. (662)860-2194 31 SEM Fax. (662)860-1277 [email protected] 32 Komol Te 44th Komol Keemthong Foundation’s Annual www.inebnetwork.org Lecture Seeds of Peace is published thrice annually in January, May and September, in order to 33 Sulak Sivaraksa promote the aims and objectives of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists 33 Refections on the Cremation (INEB) and its members around the world, 34 Globalization, Extreme Capitalism, Addiction, and and the organizations under SNF including the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) Surplus Inmates: What Can the Dhamma Teach Us About and the School for Wellbeing Studies Tese Problems? and Research. 38 Where should Tais be heading? 2 Editorial Notes 42 Article of this, which is probably why it was so surprising. 42 Are Cause and Efect Coming Full Circle? Our frst visit in Taiwan was to the Dharma Drum What Do We Do Now? Mountain Monastery. Master Sheng Yen, founder of Dharma Drum Mountain, dedicated decades of his life to 44 Letters spreading the Buddhadharma globally, guiding through his Chan practice, sharing Buddhist compassion and wisdom 49 Obituaries with people around the world. His idea of protecting 49 In memoriam of U Kyaw Tan the spiritual environment has been widely valued and / Wolfgang Schmidt recognized internationally. 50 In Memoriam of Somkid Srisungkhom Based on the Master’s infnite compassionate vows, / Sulak Sivaraksa Dharma Drum Mountain’s branch monasteries and practice centers worldwide have been promoting three-fold education and four kinds of environmentalism, endeavoring 51 Book Reviews to help purify human minds and society, in hopes of sowing 51 Hidden away in the folds of time : Te the seeds of world peace through joint eforts to realize the unwritten dimension of Sulak Sivaraksa HPBMPGiCVJMEJOHBQVSFMBOEPOFBSUIw / Wolfgang Schmidt Our second visit was to the Tzu Chi Foundation. It 52 Buddhadhamma / Sulak Sivaraksa was a wonderful place, the staf of the Foundation were very 54 Laos, the Silent Repression / John Berthelsen friendly and nice. Tzu Chi Foundation focuses on giving 56 Te Lovelorn Ghost & Te Magical Monk: material aid to the needy, and inspiring love and humanity Practicing Buddhism In Modern Tailand to both givers and receivers. In addition to charity, the / Sulak Sivaraksa foundation dedicates itself in the felds of medicine, education, environmental protection, international relief 58 Nonviolence and Islamic Imperatives work, and the establishment of a marrow donor registry. / Ramu Maniannan It also promotes humanistic values and community volunteerism. Trough helping those in need, Tzu Chi volunteers take on the path of bodhisattva practices, the Editorial Note way to Buddhahood. Hello INEB Friends, to all of you who follow our activities Alongside the exposure visits, the main conference and support us, we wish you a Happy New Year! explored the aspirations and challenges for socially engaged Last November, we organized a conference in Buddhism at a deeper level, with a series of presentations, Taiwan - Te International Network of Engaged Buddhists discussions, and workshops led by members of the global (INEB) 18th General Conference: A Conference on INEB community on activities, projects, and initiatives in Interbeing: Transforming Confict by Compassion communities around the world. XJUI&YQPTVSFBOE3FUSFBUićF$IBMMFOHFGPS&OHBHFE Te concluding three-day meditation retreat provided #VEEIJTN JO UIF /FYU %FDBEFw ćF DPOGFSFODF XBT participants with an opportunity for refection and self held from November 22-29, 2017, at Hong-Shi Buddhist examination on the experiences and learning points shared College in Taoyuan district of Taiwan. over the preceding fve days. During the conference, our hosts, the Taiwanese On behalf of all INEB staf, I would like express deep people, surprised us on so many levels. Tey were very HSBUJUVEF BOETBZiUIBOLZPVWFSZNVDIwUPPVS5BJXBOFTF warm and friendly. In addition, for a developed Asian hosts at Dharma Drum Mountain, Tzu Chi Foundation and country like Taiwan, prices were surprisingly afordable. Hong-Shi Buddhist College, who were our main hosts of And the street food? Phenomenal! We all were not aware the INEB 18th General Conference. Vol. 34 No. 1 January - April 2018 3 Announcements Ten Year Way FORWARD It’s a historic mile post, that we are here in Taiwan - communities. It is INEB and its pioneers who have Hongshi Buddhist College, by invitation of given life to the Buddhist path that engages people Venarable Bhikkuni Chao-hwei, to attend the bi- and deals with the suferings we encounter in our annual INEB conference. INEB is celebrating its self and in others, right here and right now. 28th birthday with its founder Archan Sulak’s 84 When INEB was founded, the initiate year birthday celebration. members were deeply infuenced by the radical Archan invited his group of friends - lefist, Marxist and protest movements of 60’s and kalyanamitra to his boat house and told them his 70’s. But going into the 21st century, there needs to great dream of building up a movement of engaged be a conscious efort to create a positive frame work Buddhists. Today, this movement of engaged of engagement - not just protest, and it needs to be Buddhists - our organization INEB, is looking to anchored in Bodhichiththa. While diferent organize its core activities, in order to increase its Buddhist schools teach Bodhichiththa in various strategic efciency and impact of its work around ways, for INEB, we understand that all sentient the globe. beings are endowed with Bodhichittha – the We need to maintain the historic values of potential for enlightenment within us - and this is PVSNPWFNFOU FTQFDJBMMZ*/&#TVOJRVFRVBMJUJFT the basis for our mutual respect. Our engagement like our kalyanamitra family values. As Archan with society arises from Bodhichiththa. In this way 4VMBLTBZT TPDJBMMZFOHBHFE#VEEIJTNIBTUPCFiUP socially engaged Buddhism must continually fnd UIJOL BOE BDU MJLF B #VEEIJTUwćBU NFBOT VTJOH ways to re articulate the fundamental Buddhist Buddhist teachings and practices to understand and teachings - for example Sila/ethics, Samadhi/ engage in the contemporary World - rather than meditation, Panna/wisdom. basing ourselves in other ideologies while becoming As I mentioned in the beginning, connecting iBOBDUJWJTUXIPKVTUIBQQFOUPCFB#VEEIJTUw through Kalyanamitra - spiritual friends - is the core Buddhist social activism as a movement value of INEB that has sustained and must maintain arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth into the future. Our teacher, Buddha, spoke ofen century as a response to colonialism, foreign about the value of wise mentors and admirable invasion, westernization, and the injustice of friends to help guide us along the spiritual path. A oppression caused by it. Many academics and few days ago, we got together and agreed on our ten activist have since tried to defne and build up social year strategic way forward road map. Trough these movement based on engaged Buddhism - most of years to come, our outreach, our interest and care to those initiatives did not engage with people and connect to others, to address local and global issues 4 must become much stronger. Further, transforming confict by compassion We need to give more attention- to care, to means re-interpretation of the fve precepts as an connect with others using actions that are not appropriate application of the Buddha’s teaching to dependent upon boundaries or identity, and thus modern socio-economic and political dilemmas. include working with other faith and also with those We have walked together for the last 30 without religious beliefs. INEB has and must years as a family. Ten years ago, we were here in continue to respect life in all forms. Our activism Hongshi and promised to commit ourselves to being must remain progressive, and as Buddhists,
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