[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 90, Issue 2

Gary Gach gary.gach at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 09:01:24 MDT 2012


Thank you for pointing out my improper editorializing.  There are no
sides.  (Polis = place, wherever you stand)  There is simply an Open
Letter, to which I created a headline that reaches for the purple
prose dial.  I regret my knee-jerk response; habitual delusive
impulse.     "Speaking out against injustice," might be more in accord
with Right Speech?

Meanwhile, this Ramadan, American Islamaphobia continues :
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/08/01/us/politics/01reuters-usa-campaign-tennessee.html?_r=1&hp

Gary G

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>    1. Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia (Gary Gach)
>    2. FW: [Indo-Eurasia] Job announcements: Postdoctoral	researcher
>       (South Asian / Buddhist Studies) and research	assistant (social
>       movements). (Jo)
>    3. Re: Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
>       (Erik Hoogcarspel)
>    4. Re: Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia (Richard Hayes)
>    5. Re: Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia (curt steinmetz)
>    6. Re: Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia (Richard Hayes)
>    7. Re: Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia (Gregory Bungo)
>    8. Re: Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia (Richard Hayes)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:54:51 -0700
> From: Gary Gach <gary.gach at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
> To: buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com
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> http://buddhistletteronislamophobia.wordpress.com/
>
> This Open Letter comes to us via
> Joshua Eaton,  a journalist writing about Buddhism, religion and
> politics, poverty, and the American South. He is also a Tibetan
> translator. Also, Rev. Danny Fisher, a professor and Coordinator of
> the Buddhist Chaplaincy Department at University of the
> West, collaborated on it in key ways. (http:// joshuaeaton.net ;
> http://dannyfisher.org )
>
> The letter is motivated by recent news reports, as well as a
> long-standing, deep-rooted sense of social justice. This being Ramadan
> ? if not now, when? You can add your name through the custom form, via
> a blue button at the top of the website.  Please feel free to pass it
> along, as you might see fit.  Thank you.
>
> Maitri
>
> Gary Gach
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:24:04 -0600
> From: "Jo" <jkirk at spro.net>
> Subject: [Buddha-l] FW: [Indo-Eurasia] Job announcements: Postdoctoral
> 	researcher (South Asian / Buddhist Studies) and research	assistant
> 	(social movements).
> To: "Buddha-L" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
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> X-posted from the IER list by Joanna, in case of interest in applying, or
> in
> the project.
> ________________________________________
>
> On Behalf Of Davide Ermacora
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 1:16 PM
>
> Please forward ad lib.  Brian
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> From: Laurence Cox [Laurence.Cox at nuim.ie ]
> Sent: 01 August 2012 11:55
> Subject: Job announcements: Postdoctoral researcher (South Asian / Buddhist
> Studies) and research assistant (social movements).
>
> Dear colleagues,
> The advertisements for a postdoctoral researcher in South Asian / Buddhist
> studies and a research assistant in social movements based at NUIM
> (Ireland)
> are now available online at http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/   (search
> under "Education" and "Academic") and at
> http://humanresources.nuim.ie/vacancies.shtml
>
> Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested.
>
> The successful candidates will be part of a team researching the life of U
> Dhammaloka, a Dublin-born migrant worker who became an activist monk in
> early C20th Burma, other Irish figures in the Asian Buddhist Revival with
> their transnational organisational links and the wider world of
> working-class western Buddhists. The postdoctoral researcher will be
> exploring Indian and Sri Lankan archives while the research assistant will
> be attempting to identify U Dhammaloka's pre-Buddhist past as a plebeian
> activist in the US. This funded project, "Early western Buddhists in Asia:
> transnational lives, hidden histories, colonial encounters", is associated
> with a wider 3-year research project on other aspects of U Dhammaloka and
> early western Buddhists in Asia. Further background is available on
> http://buddhistcrossroads.wordpress.com/presenters-at-the-conference/researc
> h-posts-for-the-u-dhammaloka-project/
>
> The postdoctoral researcher will trace U Dhammaloka's activities in Ceylon
> and India, the involvement of other Irish figures such as John Bowles Daly
> and U Visuddha in the Buddhist revival, and "beachcombers" in this same
> context. The postdoctoral researcher will be required to plan, carry out
> and
> analyse research in archives in South Asia, in collaboration with the wider
> team, and to carry out related publication and dissemination work. As such
> the candidate will be experienced in qualitative research, with the ability
> to travel extensively and carry out research in the field over a 3-month
> period, and be fluent in at least one of Sinhala and Hindu-Urdu. A
> specialisation in religious studies or history would also be beneficial,
> but
> is not required.
>
> The research assistant will be searching for records of U Dhammaloka during
> his time as a migrant worker in the US (late C19th), as well as the wider
> worlds of migrant workers, plebeian freethinkers and spiritualists, and
> social movement contexts such as union organising, anarchism, Fenianism
> etc.
> The research assistant will be required to plan, carry out and analyse
> research in archives in North America, , in collaboration with the wider
> team, and to carry out related dissemination and publication work. As such
> the candidate will have qualitative research skills, with the ability to
> travel extensively and carry out research in the field over a 2-month
> period. A thematic focus in one of the contexts mentioned above would also
> be beneficial, but is not required.
>
> Full details of job requirements and how to apply are in the attached
> booklets [the above group cannot move attachments, contact Prof. Cox for
> them. JK] and on the websites listed above. For informal enquiries please
> feel free to contact me (but by Monday 6th August as I will then be on
> holiday until close to the deadline). We plan to hold interviews (by phone
> or skype for candidates not currently based in Ireland) in the week
> starting
> 3 September. The successful applicants must start work by 1 October (this
> is
> a condition of the funding).
> "Early western Buddhists in Asia" is supported by a Government of Ireland
> Advanced Collaborative Research Project grant from the Irish Research
> Council.
>
> Dr Laurence Cox
> Department of Sociology
> National University of Ireland Maynooth
> Co. Kildare, Republic of Ireland
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:29:48 +0200
> From: Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
> To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Message-ID: <501A2C6C.7060106 at xs4all.nl>
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> This letter contains a typical hotchpotch of political, religious and
> social accidents. It is in fact an attempt to mix them and to politicize
> religion, which I think is disastrous. The rebels in the south of
> Thailand are just Malayan bandits who are doing a shoot and run on Thai
> policemen and monks, the tribes in Birma just have a beef with the
> authorities, and yes, some Muslim politicians like some of other
> religions love to play the religious card to raise hell. I do not think
> the Buddha would advice to take sides.
>
> Erik
>
> Op 01-08-12 21:54, Gary Gach schreef:
>> http://buddhistletteronislamophobia.wordpress.com/
>>
>> This Open Letter comes to us via
>> Joshua Eaton,  a journalist writing about Buddhism, religion and
>> politics, poverty, and the American South. He is also a Tibetan
>> translator. Also, Rev. Danny Fisher, a professor and Coordinator of
>> the Buddhist Chaplaincy Department at University of the
>> West, collaborated on it in key ways. (http:// joshuaeaton.net ;
>> http://dannyfisher.org )
>>
>> The letter is motivated by recent news reports, as well as a
>> long-standing, deep-rooted sense of social justice. This being Ramadan
>> ? if not now, when? You can add your name through the custom form, via
>> a blue button at the top of the website.  Please feel free to pass it
>> along, as you might see fit.  Thank you.
>>
>> Maitri
>>
>> Gary Gach
>>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 05:11:42 -0600
> From: Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
> To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Message-ID: <2EA1F4CA-C3C2-4B19-A561-375A3711B504 at unm.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=big5-hkscs
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> On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> I do not think
>> the Buddha would advice to take sides.
>
> Erik speaks wisely. The Buddha consistently took a stand against taking a
> stand. There are, of course, as many Buddhas as there are Buddhists, so one
> cannot be too dogmatic about what "the" Buddha would approve. My Buddha
> would frown upon the hysterical Islamophobia of the inventors of the
> K?lacakra and upon 21st century Buddhists who politicize religion. Above
> all, he would frown on Republicans.
>
> Richard Hayes
> Acting chairman of the Buddhist Green Party of America (Libertarian Marxist
> wing)
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:51:48 -0400
> From: curt steinmetz <curt at cola.iges.org>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
> To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Message-ID: <501A69D4.6000909 at cola.iges.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
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> According to the well documented Pali tradition, the Buddha did in fact
> encourage taking sides when it came to anyone who attacks the Dharma,
> which Islam has consistently done (and, indeed, as all good Muslims are
> required to do by their religion).
> Curt Steinmetz
>
> On 8/2/2012 3:29 AM, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:
>> This letter contains a typical hotchpotch of political, religious and
>> social accidents. It is in fact an attempt to mix them and to politicize
>> religion, which I think is disastrous. The rebels in the south of
>> Thailand are just Malayan bandits who are doing a shoot and run on Thai
>> policemen and monks, the tribes in Birma just have a beef with the
>> authorities, and yes, some Muslim politicians like some of other
>> religions love to play the religious card to raise hell. I do not think
>> the Buddha would advice to take sides.
>>
>> Erik
>>
>> Op 01-08-12 21:54, Gary Gach schreef:
>>> http://buddhistletteronislamophobia.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> This Open Letter comes to us via
>>> Joshua Eaton,  a journalist writing about Buddhism, religion and
>>> politics, poverty, and the American South. He is also a Tibetan
>>> translator. Also, Rev. Danny Fisher, a professor and Coordinator of
>>> the Buddhist Chaplaincy Department at University of the
>>> West, collaborated on it in key ways. (http:// joshuaeaton.net ;
>>> http://dannyfisher.org )
>>>
>>> The letter is motivated by recent news reports, as well as a
>>> long-standing, deep-rooted sense of social justice. This being Ramadan
>>> ? if not now, when? You can add your name through the custom form, via
>>> a blue button at the top of the website.  Please feel free to pass it
>>> along, as you might see fit.  Thank you.
>>>
>>> Maitri
>>>
>>> Gary Gach
>>>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 06:10:09 -0600
> From: Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
> To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Message-ID: <E88303BA-AD3C-4AC5-A160-F184AB9ED0D1 at unm.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=us-ascii
>
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:51 AM, curt steinmetz <curt at cola.iges.org> wrote:
>
>> the Buddha did in fact
>> encourage taking sides when it came to anyone who attacks the Dharma,
>> which Islam has consistently done (and, indeed, as all good Muslims are
>> required to do by their religion)
>
> What utter nonsense! For years I have had Muslim students in my courses on
> Buddhism, and never have I encountered one who attacked the Dharma. There is
> no greater assault on the Dharma than the irresponsible slandering of entire
> religious traditions by bigots. Be ashamed, Curt!
>
> Richard Hayes
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 08:45:55 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
> From: Gregory Bungo <gbungo at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
> To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Message-ID:
> 	<31308601.1343915156271.JavaMail.root at mswamui-thinleaf.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
> 	
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Hi,
>
> If one is to be ashamed, it would make sense to be ashamed
> of the doctrine of Jihad.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg Bungo
>
>> Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote
>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:51 AM, curt steinmetz <curt at cola.iges.org> wrote:
>>
>>> the Buddha did in fact
>>> encourage taking sides when it came to anyone who attacks the Dharma,
>>> which Islam has consistently done (and, indeed, as all good Muslims are
>>> required to do by their religion)
>>
>>What utter nonsense! For years I have had Muslim students in my courses on
>> Buddhism, and never have I encountered one who attacked the Dharma. There
>> is no greater assault on the Dharma than the irresponsible slandering of
>> entire religious traditions by bigots. Be ashamed, Curt!
>>
>>Richard Hayes
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>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 07:59:05 -0600
> From: Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia
> To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Message-ID: <61E3CA72-9832-4B98-9F88-21291709A60E at unm.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=us-ascii
>
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Gregory Bungo <gbungo at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> If one is to be ashamed, it would make sense to be ashamed
>> of the doctrine of Jihad.
>
> There is nothing at all wrong with jihad. Buddhists have things like sesshin
> and month-long intensive retreats in which they do battle with internal
> enemies. What one should be ashamed of is forgetting that the enemies are
> greed, hatred and delusion rather than people and religions.
>
>
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