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YANGON (AFP) - More than 1,300 Buddhist monks marched in Yangon on Thursday, their largest demonstration in Myanmar's main city against the junta since they launched a protest movement in force earlier this week. if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new...

I find it rather humorous (I can't spell).:D

I was reading the Mahadukkhakkhandha Sutta in the Majhima Nikaya. The Buddha says thus: ...BHIKKHUS, I SEE NO ONE IN THE WORLD WITH ITS GODS, ITS MARAS, AND ITS BRAHMAS, IN THIS GENERATION WITH ITS RECLUSES AND BRAHMINS,... In other words, he speaks of gods as though they exist. Therefore...

Thank you Vajradhara, as you are always full of information (and where to find it).

Obviously you just clicked the link and read the first sentence. If you read the whole thing, you might not be saying that.

If that is the argument, then Christians are egocentric!

Of course, all these are from the same website, but I hope you get the drift. The people who founded the first colonies may have been Christians, but our nation was not founded on Christianity. The beauty of it all is, you can believe what you want. Peace be with you all,

The Treaty of Tripoli, passed by the U.S. Senate in 1797, read in part: "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." The treaty was written during the Washington administration, and sent to the Senate during the Adams administration. It was read...

James Madison, fourth president and father of the Constitution, was not religious in any conventional sense. "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on...

Thomas Jefferson, third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, said:"I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian." He referred to the Revelation of St. John as "the ravings of a maniac" and wrote: The Christian priesthood...

John Adams, the country's second president, was drawn to the study of law but faced pressure from his father to become a clergyman. He wrote that he found among the lawyers 'noble and gallant achievments" but among the clergy, the "pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces". Late in life he...

George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion. When John Murray (a universalist who...

I disagree. Most people may believe this, but our founding fathers were diest. Believe it or not, but this is fact. Is anyone actually reading Thomas Paine's essay??? He is not merely putting Christianity down, he's using the Old Testament to prove there are no prophesies being fullfilled in...

Check this out and reply OLD TESTAMENT "PROPHESIES" OF JESUS PROVEN FALSE I I have to say, Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, makes a very compelling arguement!!!

Why is this posted under the Buddhism section of this website? Yes, Mother Theresa was a wonderful Bodhissatta, but other than that, why???

This is my problem. I consider myself a Buddhist, but I only have access to the Majjhima Nikaya. How can I truly participate in a religion where I don't have access to all of the teachings? Not to mention, a lot of the Majjhima Nikaya I don't understand. Like the Mulapariyaya Sutta. I don't try...

Good job Vajradhara

all religions are derived from Jinas You sound a little egocentric. If all religions derive from Jainism, why are there only an estimated 2 million followers in the world? (My source is on page 142 of SACRED PATHS OF THE EAST by Theodore M. Ludwig Third Edition).

not easten religion but also western It's kind of hard to live a life of austarity (I can't spell) in a land of plenty. Plus, I've never seen a Digambara monk walking around. Nude men aren't taken too well in my city.

jainism is oldest religion in the world!! I disagree. The first religions are not known by anyone. No one knows why people first started digging graves for their dead some 10,000 years ago. No one clearly understands why cave paintings appear in southern France. Though historians believe...