[Buddha-l] The battle of Lumbini

[Christopher Fynn]

The Chinese government should be kept away from any involvement in
re-developing Lumbini, since they are still destroying Buddhist
monuments in Tibet.

A couple of years ago they destroyed a huge image of Padmasambhava
which had been constructed at Samye.

There are many needy people in Nepal - if they really want to help the
people of Nepal there are plenty of other things they could be
spending their money on. Does Lumbini really need a six lane
expressway connecting it with Nawalparasi when much more vital road
links in Nepal are in a terrible state?.

I remember a couple of earlier grand proposals to redevelop Lumbini -
one of which involved Trungpa Rinpoche's organization - but nothing
ever came of these, though I suspect a fair bit of money found it's
way into the pockets of corrupt government officials.

For about 30 or 40 years the only continuously active Buddhist
establishment in Lumbini seemed to be the small Sakya monastery
founded by the late Chogyey Trichen Rinpoche - which was probably
built with the help of his patron, the hereditary ruler of the
Nepalese principality of Mustang on the border with Tibet. Since they
have shown a real long term commitment to the place perhaps any
re-development project  should be put in charge of the Nepalese monks
of that monastery - rather than with some PRC front organization.




On 10/04/2012, Joy Vriens <joy.vriens at gmail.com> wrote:
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