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Review of Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism Contents Vol. 35 No. 3 September - December 2562 (2019) Publisher 3 Editorial Note INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ENGAGED BUDDHISTS (INEB) 5 Country Reports 5 What is American Teravada Buddhism in the 21st Editorial team Century? / Derek Pyle Sulak Sivaraksa (Advisor) Harsha Kumara Navaratne (Advisor) 15 In Myanmar, Buddhists Ofer White Roses to Muslims Somboon Chungprampree (Editor) During Ramadan / Tant Sin Teodore Mayer (Assistant) 16 Ten Years of Empowering Female Monastics: Bhutan Nuns Arjun Kumar (Assistant) Foundation Extends Reach with New Training Center Rita Litwiller (Assistant) Dhanakhorn Tongdeang (Assistant) / Craig Lewis 19 Tich Nhat Hanh Honored with Global Peace Prize Cover Justin Whitaker Ven. Ming Yi / Te abbot of Hongshi College, Taoyuan, Taiwan. 20 ‘Lighting the Mahabodhi’ - An Ofering to the Sacred Mahabodhi Mahavihara Lay-out Bangkok Communities: New Spirit – Te Human Touch Surapong Petnamlai 21 Distributed by 24 INEB Suksit Siam 24 Culture of Awakening – Cultivating and Harvesting 113-115 Fuangnakorn Rd., Wisdom - INEB’s 2019 Bienniel Conference / Editor’s Team Bangkok 10200 Jungto Society Organizes Korean Study Tour for the Tel. (662)2259536-40 26 [email protected] International Network of Engaged Buddhists / Craig Lewis Baht 100 per issue 29 International Young Bodhisattva Training for Spiritual Suggested annual subscription US $50 Resurgence and Social Transformation Payment info: / Ven. Pema (Karen Schaefer) • A cheque payable to “INEB”. Personal cheques from the UK, US, 33 School for Wellbeing and Euro are accepted. 33 CURLS 2019: the Rise of Earth Trusteeship • Paypal, please go to the INEB website. 36 Sulak Sivaraksa Seeds of Peace 36 Te Meaning of Kraisak Choonhavan 666 Charoen-Nakorn Road, Klongsan, Bangkok 10600 Siam 38 How an Activist Buddhist Convinced Tai King Law on Tel. (662)860-2194 Insulting Monarchy Was Being Abused / Peter Janssen Fax. (662)860-1277 [email protected] 42 Articles www.inebnetwork.org 42 Buddhism, Human Nature and Tropical Rainforest Seeds of Peace is published thrice annually Conservation / Nigel Crawhall in January, May and September, in order to 48 Advancing Inter-Religious Dialogue Project (SEA-AIR) promote the aims and objectives of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists Initiates Research and Fellowship Activities To Enhance (INEB) and its members around the world, Freedom of Religion or Belief - FoRB in South and South- and the organizations under SNF including east Asia / Philip Gassert the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) and the School for Wellbeing Studies 50 Toward a Tai Feminist Movement: and Research. Ouyporn Khuankaew / Caitlin Dwyer 2 Editorial Note (IWP), based in Chiang Dao, Tailand, and how Bhutanese 53 Event nuns are being empowered through their new training center located on the outskirts of Timphu. Some of Dr. 53 Te 100th Birth Anniversary of Margaret Smith Tashi Zangmo’s personal story (Director of the Bhutan Ungphakorn / Kasidit Ananthanathorn Nuns Foundation) is included in the article. Both women have overcome violence in some form – domestic violence Letters 55 and structural violence, which has been part of their journey to liberate and empower Buddhist women. 56 Obituaries Venerable Tich Nhat Hanh, one of INEB’s esteemed Judith Collignon 56 patrons and close friend, has been honored with a Global 56 Sogyal Rinpoche / Craig Lewis Peace Prize in the category of ‘Outstanding Inner Peace.’ We send him our best wishes. Nigel Crawhall wrote an 57 Book Reviews illuminating article about the relationship between 57 Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Buddhism, human nature and tropical rainforest Histories of Nuns in Modern Tai Buddhism conservation which provides insights for all of us. A project to light the Mahabodi temple in Bodhgaya, India, is / Sulak Sivaraksa underway from which all spiritual pilgrims will beneft. 58 Portrait of a “Collaborative Hero” Review of Please read the reports about INEB’s study tour to Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially South Korea organized by the Jungto Society, the young Engaged Buddhism / Jonathan S. Watts Bodhisattva training in Taiwan, and the School for Wellbeing Studies and Research – CURLS summer school along with the Earth Trusteeship workshop. We are happy Editorial Note to announce that the Jungto Society will be hosting study tours on an annual basis, and Venerable Chao Hwei has We are looking forward to seeing many of you at INEB’s agreed to host the young Bodhisattva training in Taiwan biennial conference, October 22 – 24, hosted by the Deer Park annually during the last 2 weeks of May each year. We Institute in Bir, India. It is in this beautiful location in the greatly appreciate the valued ongoing support of Ven. Chao foothills of the Himalayas we will renew our commitments to Hwei and Ven Pomnyum Sunim for making it possible to the work of engaged Buddhism. Please visit our website for continue these vital INEB activities into the future. more information, as well as read the article about the We also welcome the team from the Network for conference and poster on the back cover of this issue. Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, who are sharing the Tis issue has some inspiring and diverse articles ofce space as they oversee the European Union funded beginning with an overview and analysis of the path and project Southeast Asia Advancing Inter-Religious Dialogue status of Teravada Buddhism in America by Derek Pyle. and Freedom of Religion or Belief – SEA AIR FoRB. Please Tis 21st century perspective describes the history of read their report on the status of the project. Another article Buddhism in America and its various infuences and provides news about the International Forum for Buddhist- streams. Te gesture of Myanmar Buddhists giving White Muslim Relations. Roses to Muslims during Ramadan provides a welcome and Peter Janssen’s article gives a new perspective about inspiring action led by Buddhist monk Bandatta Seidatta, how Ajarn Sulak, as a Buddhist activist, infuenced the Tai also known as Asia Light Sayardaw, who created the White king to drop l’ese-majeste’ charges against him, followed by Rose Campaign as a way to rebuild social cohesion among King Vajiralongkorn writing letters to the Supreme Court Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar. and Attorney General requesting that no further cases be Other inspiring articles share about how Buddhist accepted. However, the law has yet to be changed. women are infuencing the feminist discourse in Tailand We also invite you to read the book reviews and and Bhutan. Two separate articles share the story of Tai obituaries of dear friends. feminist Ouyporn Khuankaew, founder and lead trainer for We send you our best wishes and look forward to the International Women’s Partnership for Peace and Justice seeing some of you at INEB’s 2019 conference in Bir, India. Vol. 35 No. 3 September - December 2019 3 The International Network of Engaged Buddhists’ Statement Regarding the Situation in Hong Kong 09 September 2019 As the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), provide humanitarian assistance beyond political positions. we have members who represent a wide variety of peoples We also wish to seek to work on longer term solutions, across Asia as well as in other parts of the world including which include: the Americas, Europe, Oceana, and Africa. We also have members and close friends who are not Buddhist among Appropriate economic development for Hong Kong that other faith traditions and beliefs. does not exacerbate class divisions In regards to the extremely difcult situation in Hong Right governance in which local, regional, national, and Kong recently, we are deeply concerned for the immediate international interests are harmonized to avoid the sufering of people who are facing violence on a daily basis. exploitation of others and ensure civil and human rights We are also deeply concerned about the structural and are honored as part of the system. cultural roots of this sufering. Cultural and ideological inclusivity which forms the root In this way, we would like to express our commitment of a non-violent society so that the long history of Hong to engaging in the situation in Hong Kong in a compassionate, Kong as a diverse and international city can continue to holistic and thoroughly non-violent manner. thrive. We will seek through our networks to end the violence on both sides of the confict. As Buddhists, we fnd violence We invite any partners who resonate with these goals an unskillful way of dealing with confict which also leads to to reach out to us so that we can continue to build bridges intolerable levels of immediate sufering. We look forward to and human connection to resolve this crisis. the Buddhist monasteries and groups in Hong Kong to 4 Country Reports What is American Theravada Buddhism in the 21st Century? Derek Pyle 13 March 2019 Two young boys receive temporary ordination — See Lion’s Roar for references - https://www.lionsroar.com/ a common rite of passage in many Southeast theravada-buddhism-america/ Asian communities — at Wat Kiry Vongsa Bo- pharam, in Leveret, MA, 2017. Photo provided by Te oldest lineage of Bud- Teravada is consid- Sakal Kim. dhism Teravada, is known ered an orthodox Buddhist for sharing the earliest re- tradition. It emphasizes ad- and refugee communities; While practicing in corded teachings of the herence to the teachings of and much more. alignment with the Buddha’s Buddha. Building on this the Pali Canon — the earli- To many traditional original teachings of libera- ancient lineage, Teravada est recorded teachings at- Teravadins, this larger tion is a common goal in today is innovative and di- tributed to the Buddha — framework is important. Teravada, between various verse. Derek Pyle reports on and its commentaries. Bhikkhu Bodhi, a leading teachers and practitioners the tapestry of communities Teravada is most common American Pali scholar and there are nuanced and ofen that make up American in Sri Lanka and mainland translator, is wary of prac- heated debates about how Teravada.
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