KyaemonMost people in America know Martin Luther King Jr. Not everybody knows his illustrious namesake “Martin Luther,” a German priest. Most people heard about “Lutheran” churches. But, not everybody knows its origin “Luther.” Martin Luther started the “Protestants” movement which spread to France and England. He translated the Bible from Latin to German. The Pope […]
LESSON: MONKS SHOULD NEVER COVER UP A CRIME EVEN IF COMMITTED BY SOME OTHER LAY PERSON. HE BECAME AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME. HE OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE. GETTING AN UNDER AGED GIRL PREGNANT IS A CRIME (STATUTORY RAPE) SOME MONKS WOULD LIKE TO ACT LIKE THE BIG GUY, A KNOW ALL. ACTUALLY, THEY ARE IGNORAMUSES IN […]
CLICK VIDEO LINK BELOW: YouTube – Vatican Goes Into Damage Control Mode Over Abuse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOadl-Gvddk&feature=PlayList&p=1A889C04FD077E87&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=28 April 14, 2010 — The Vatican has gone into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s first foreign trip since it erupted.
Buddhist monk charged with battery – Chicago Breaking News http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/03/buddhist-monk-gets-charged-with-battery.html A Buddhist monk from Thailand has been charged with battery after he “inappropriately” touched an adult parishioner in a meditation center in Willowbrook, officials say. Chaliaw Chetawan, 27, has been charged with battery, a misdemeanor, according to the DuPage County sheriff’s office. The incident happened […]
PER VINAYA, MONKS ARE BARRED FROM LAY PEOPLE’S AFFAIRS. ONLY STUDY AND TEACH DHAMMA. NO HANDLING MONEY. NO TRADING. NO LYING, NO CHEATING. MUST MAINTAIN HARMONY AMONG MONKS AND SOCIETY. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MONKS DO POLITICS AND INTERFERE IN LAY PEOPLE’S MANAGEMENT AFFAIRS? GREED! LUST FOR POWER AND WEALTH. ALWAYS! Sri Lanka scandalized by monk’s […]
SOURCE: THE ORDINATION PROCEDURE SOME VINAYA RULES / Chanmyay Sayadaw / ordinate.htm http://web.ukonline.co.uk/buddhism/ordinate.htm#parajika 2. Koseyya Vagga 6. Should a bhikkhu receive or make someone else receive gold, silver or any form of money or take delight at gold etc. placed for him, it entails a Nissaggiya Pacittiya offence (4-2-8). N.B.: Should a bhikkhu receive something […]
SOURCE: THE ORDINATION PROCEDURE SOME VINAYA RULES / Chanmyay Sayadaw / ordinate.htm http://web.ukonline.co.uk/buddhism/ordinate.htm#parajika 1. Four Parajika Rules Parajika is the name of the offence, and it also refers to the first four rules of Vinaya. It means “defeater” because it defeats a bhikkhu who breaks one of the most important four rules in the disciplinary […]
Scandal threatens Pope Benedict’s legacy – USATODAY.com http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-04-01-benedict_N.htm ROME — As his fifth anniversary approached, Pope Benedict XVI had been building on a legacy of a scholarly man who tenderly urged people to look to the moral teachings of Jesus Christ to answer the dilemmas of modern life, be they political or personal. Although his […]
Mexican bishop molested nearly 200 including 2 of his own and got away unpunished because of cover ups. YouTube – Mexican bishops ask for forgiveness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InaT3JK6pVI&feature=PlayList&p=1A889C04FD077E87&playnext_from=PL&index=29&playnext=2 14, 2010 — As the Vatican tries to defuse growing anger over child abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church, bishops in Mexico have released a statement asking […]
Brazil orders Polish priest arrested in abuse case – Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100522/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_church_abuse;_ylt=AttaNg3Nhet.eVe0N.JFLadbbBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTNibG1lZ21pBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNTIyL2x0X2JyYXppbF9jaHVyY2hfYWJ1c2UEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM3BHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDYnJhemlsb3JkZXJz SAO PAULO – A court has ordered the arrest of a Polish priest suspected of sexually abusing a teenager in a Rio de Janeiro suburb and turning his parish home into what the judge described as an “erotic dungeon” for sex with adolescents, […]
The Four Disrobing Offences Ajahn Brahmavamso http://www.geocities.com/venkumara/evinaya/articles.html The core of the monastic discipline is a list of rules called the Patimokkha. In the bhikkhu-patimokkha (for the monks) there are 227 rules, while in the bhikkhuni-patimokkha (for the nuns) there are 311 rules. The first four rules in the patimokkha, for both monks and nuns, are […]
Huge fire rages famous market in Yangon http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/24/c_13312283.htm YANGON, May 24 (Xinhua) — Huge fire raged a famous market in Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon Monday morning. The fire, which occurred at the four-storey Mingalazay market in Mingala Taungnyunt township, started at about 8:30 a.m., over an hour before the market opened for business, eyewitnesses […]
Astronomer Copernicus to be reburied as hero – Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_poland_copernicus_reburied By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer (SEE ALSO SOME COMMENTS IN COMMENTS SECTION) FROMBORK, Poland – Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose work was condemned by the Catholic Church as heretical, will be reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 […]