Archivo etiqueta «Budismo»
Por Brahma Chellaney, profesor de Estudios estratégicos en el Centro de Estudios de Políticas de Nueva Delhi y autor de Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan (Fuerzas imparables en Asia: el ascenso de China, India y Japón). Traducido del inglés por David Meléndez Tormen (Project Syndicate, 08/02/11):
La incautación por la policía de grandes sumas de moneda china en el monasterio indio del Karmapa Lama – una de las figuras más importantes del budismo tibetano – ha revivido viejas sospechas sobre sus continuos vínculos con China y le obligó a negar que sea un “agente de … Seguir leyendo
By Maura Moynihan, an author, worked for Radio Free Asia from 1998 to 2000 and was previously a consultant with Refugees International (THE WASHINGTON POST, 18/10/07):
Yesterday the Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest civilian honor, and China is throwing a fit. “We are furious,” the Chinese Communist Party‘s secretary for Tibet, Zhang Qingli, declared this week. “If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world.” In recent days China has abruptly withdrawn from a summit on Iran and canceled a meeting with … Seguir leyendo
Por Juan José Tamayo, director de la Cátedra de Teología y Ciencias de las Religiones, de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (EL PAÍS, 03/10/07):
La imagen que suele tenerse del budismo, al menos en Occidente, es la de una religión o cosmovisión que huye del mundanal ruido por considerarlo impuro y se refugia en la contemplación para no mancharse las manos ni contaminar la mente con preocupaciones mundanas. Según esa imagen, la interioridad es lo que conforma el universo budista: la vida interior, la paz interior, la liberación interior, el viaje hacia el interior de uno mismo. La … Seguir leyendo
By Pankaj Mishra, the author of Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond (THE GUARDIAN, 01/10/07):
In recent months, militant atheists have tried to convince us religion ought to be expelled from public as well as private life. It is not hard to imagine how their salon wisdom would have fared last week in the streets of Rangoon, where ordinary Burmese protesting against a military dictatorship rallied behind Buddhist monks – the “highly revered moral core”, as the New York Times put it, of Burmese society.If the images of saffron-robed mendicants braving police … Seguir leyendo
By Maung Zarni, founder of the Free Burma Coalition and a visiting research fellow at Oxford (THE TIMES, 29/09/07):
As the events unfolded this week in Rangoon, my mind wandered back to the bedtime stories my great-grandmother told me of a bloody encounter in the 1930s in my native Mandalay. It was between the world-conquering power of the British Raj and the soft power of the world-renouncers, the peaceful and unarmed Buddhist monks and nuns, 17 of whom were mown down. How gallantly they had stood up to the British Raj on behalf of Burma’s poor, she said.
Were … Seguir leyendo
By Michael Gerson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/09/07):
The great virtue of Buddhism is serene courage in the face of inevitable affliction. That courage is on display now in Burma — a nation caught upon the wheel of suffering.
The sight of young, barefoot monks in cinnamon robes quietly marching for democracy, amid crowds carrying banners reading “love and kindness,” is already a symbol of conscience for a young century. On closer examination, these protests have also shown that nonviolence need not be tame or toothless. The upside-down bowls carried by some of the monks signal that they will not accept … Seguir leyendo