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Thai protesters demand army stop supporting government




BANGKOK: More than 300 Thai pro-democracy demonstrators marched to the gates of the army headquarters in Bangkok on Saturday (Mar 24) to call on soldiers to withdraw their support for the government.
It was one of the biggest in a new wave of protests against corruption and the government's failure to keep to a promised election timetable.

The marchers demanded soldiers end their backing for the government, which took power following a May 2014 coup. But the protesters also said they did not want another military takeover.
"We want a peaceful transition," Rangsiman Rome, one of the protest leaders, told Reuters. "It's time for the army and all of Thai society to stop supporting the junta and side with the people."
Soldiers at the army headquarters declined to respond.
The march began at Bangkok's Thammasat University, a traditional hotbed of discontent.
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Unarmed police tried to block the protesters from the street leading to the army headquarters, but gave way and allowed them through. Demonstrators burnt incense at the ornate gates and set up a sound system to amplify their message.
"Those of you who are at home, join us ... until we can win this war, until we get what we want," said student activist Sirawith Seritiwat, also known as Ja New.
Protesters said they wanted the government to hold elections in November 2018 as it had promised last year. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has said the vote would not happen until early 2019, the latest delay to a ballot originally planned for 2015.
Protesters have also been angered by corruption scandals, particularly an investigation into the luxury watch collection of Prawit Wongsuwan, a deputy prime minister and defence minister. Last month, a public petition demanded he quit.
Prawit has said he borrowed the timepieces from friends, but would resign if that was the public's wish.
"There is too much corruption. We need democracy back now," said Mike Pisek, 70, a former Thai marine.
Many of the protesters were in their 60s or 70s, even if the leaders were students.
The government has allowed recent protests to take place, but many of the leaders face charges for public order offenses.
Protest leaders said they did not plan more marches until May, nearing the fourth anniversary of the 2014 coup.
The army took power saying it aimed to end months of street protests in 2013 and 2014 in Bangkok led by the now-defunct People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), which were aimed at ousting the civilian government of then-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and counter-protests by her red-shirted supporters.

Source: Reuters


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Monsoon Rains Threaten Rohingya Refugees



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As monsoon season bears down on Southeast Asia, U.S. officials say up to a 100,000 Rohingya refugees sheltering in the hills of Bangladesh face a potential humanitarian catastrophe.

More than 860,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims were driven out of Myanmar by a violent crackdown by the government that the U.S. has called a campaign of ethnic cleansing, but the plan to return them home is slated to take two years – and they don’t want to go, nor do their former Buddhist neighbors in Myanmar’s Rakhine State want them.
  • Oppression of the ethnic Rohingya by the people and government of Myanmar is deeply rooted in the belief that Rohingyas are illegal immigrants from the Indian state of Bengal, with no place in mostly Buddhist Myanmar. The country’s nascent transition to democracy has not improved the Rohingyas’ lot as they remain without citizenship or basic legal rights.
     
  • The international community continues to press Myanmar to end its oppression of the Rohingya people, but the government has so far failed to change course, protesting that it is rightfully defending itself against a violent Rohingya rebellion.
     
  • The emergence of the militant group ARSA, which says it fights to end the oppression of the Rohingya people, stokes concern that large-scale radicalization could occur within the population, undergirded by bleak prospects for a resolution to the conflict and deep mistrust of the Myanmar government. 
Read today’s brief, featuring expert commentary by:

- Alasdair Gordon, former senior Australian national security official
 
- Amb. Derek Mitchell, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma
 
- Josh Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
 
- Jonah Blank, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation  



Domestic Terrorism: The Threat in Our Backyard


The Austin bombing attacks – carried out by a 24-year-old white male with no reported ties to foreign terrorist groups – highlights the rising threat of domestic terrorism, with all of the lethal attacks in the U.S. since 9/11 carried out by a U.S. citizens or legal residents, writes former DEA Agent Mike Vigil.
  • “These attacks against soft targets do not require planning, extensive training, or coordination, but they can still be lethal. Although the attacks may not be as large as the one of 9/11, a steady pattern of smaller ones will create chaos and uncertainty.”
Yet domestic law enforcement doesn’t have access to the same intelligence, resources and arrest powers of their foreign-terrorist-hunting brethren.
  • “Definitions of domestic terrorism used by federal agencies are confusing and inconsistent….Congress could help by passing a law to make domestic terrorism a crime, which would allow the federal government to use its vast resources to conduct court authorized wire intercepts, searches and seizures, surveillance, serve subpoenas, obtain documents and records, and conduct arrests – and help make America safer.”

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New post on Journal of Buddhist Ethics


Buddhist Leadership

ISSN 1076-9005
Volume 25, 2018

Beyond Precepts in Conceptualizing Buddhist Leadership

Phra Nicholas Thanissaro
University of Warwick
Monastic saṅgha members may be seen as monopolizing leadership in traditional forms of Buddhism. The usual Theravādin justification for this is that monastics keep a greater number of precepts than laypeople and therefore provide a higher standard of ethical leadership as well as being symbols of their religion. Such allocation of authority to monks breaks down where the monastic-lay distinction blurs. This paper presents a review of the literature of anthropological and attitude research findings to explore how the demand for alternative modes of leadership, such as charismatic, visionary, servant, facilitative, strategic, or participative leadership or management, has opened up opportunities for lay people to take more prominent roles in Buddhist leadership in Western Buddhism as well as contemporary Asian contexts.
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Table of Contents

  1. WORKSHOP> Burmese Nissaya Reading Workshop with Willian Pruitt, University of Toronto, May 4-6, 2018
  2. JOURNAL> Journal of World Buddhist Cultures vol.1
  3. LECTURE / SEMINAR> "Rebirth Narratives in Buddhist Literature, Images, and Landscapes of the Northwestern Borderlands" (Jason Neelis): SOAS, 3-5 May)

WORKSHOP> Burmese Nissaya Reading Workshop with Willian Pruitt, University of Toronto, May 4-6, 2018

by Christoph Emmrich
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto presents
Nissaya Reading Workshop
with William Pruitt, University of Toronto, May 4-6, 2018
Department for the Study of Religion
Jackman Humanities Building 170, St. George Street, Room JHB 318
Composed in a range of Southeast Asian literary idioms, nissayas comment on works in Pali, ranging from simple word-by-word glosses to elaborate commentarial and sub-commentarial disquisitions. These linguistically hybrid texts have been used as reference works and pedagogical tools for centuries and have shaped both the transmission of Buddhism and the development of languages and their literatures throughout the region. Knowing how to read nissayas is key to understanding Southeast Asian Buddhism and literary culture. Burma has produced a particularly rich literature, alive and growing right up to the present date.
William Pruitt, author of Étude linguistique de nissaya birmans (Presses de l'École franc̜aise d' Extrême-Orient, 1994) and a leading expert in the field, will be walking workshop participants through excerpts of a Burmese nissaya on the Milindapañha (“The Questions of King Milinda”), a Pali text from northwestern South Asia, that has enjoyed a special status in Burma. Sections of a printed version of the text, manuscript reproductions, and a transcription of select passages will be shared with the participants to enable them to navigate the text and to translate passages into English. Participants, who should bring with them some knowledge of Pali and/or Burmese, will meet for a total of eleven hours distributed over three days. The workshop will be framed by an introductory lecture to the genre from Dr. Pruitt and by a concluding report on an ongoing Burmese manuscript digitization and archiving project.
Two small bursaries of Canadian $500 each are available for students travelling from outside Toronto.
Organizers: Christoph Emmrich and Anthony Scott
For registration, a detailed programme, reading materials, travel grant application, and for general inquiries, please contact Anthony Scott at anthony.scott@utoronto.ca.
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Christoph Emmrich
Associate Professor, Buddhist Studies
Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs
Chair, Numata Program UofT/McMaster
University of Toronto
http://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/christoph-emmrich/
Department for the Study of Religion
University of Toronto
Jackman Humanities Building, R.203
170 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M8, Canada
+416.978.6463 (o), +416.978.1610 (f)
http://religion.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/christoph-emmrich/
Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS)
Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs
North Building, R.106
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, ON M5S 3K7, Canada
Tel.: (416) 978-6463
http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csas/about/
Private: 18 Claxton Boulevard
Toronto, ON 6C 1L8, Canada
+1-416-317-2662 (c)
christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
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JOURNAL> Journal of World Buddhist Cultures vol.1

by Takahiko Kameyama
Dear friends and colleagues,
On behalf of the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures at Ryukoku University, I am pleased to announce the publication of Journal of World Buddhist Cultures (Jp. Sekai bukkyō bunka kenkyū) vol.1. The whole journal and each article are now available on the following website of the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures. (http://rcwbc.ryukoku.ac.jp/publications/e-journal.html)
Table of Contents is as follows:
Hua Sun, "Mingshan Temple in Anyue in Sichuan Province and Liu Benzun Religious Sect" (in Japanese, translated by Manning Li)
Kensuke Okamoto, "Paintings of Princess Muktālatā’s Conversion Story: A Comparative Study of the Shakuson Eden and the Rtag brtan Phun tshogs gling Monastery’s Mural" (in English)
Satomi Hiyama, "Untangling the Textiles in the Murals: A Study on the Monks' Robes Depicted in the First Indo-Iranian Style Paintings of Kucha" (in English)
Myokaku Kominami, "The Buddhist Scriptures Collected by Jikakudaishi Ennin (慈覚大師円仁) in Chang an (Tang): A Reconsideration on the Collecting Activities Viewed from His Diary" (in Japanese)
Aaron Proffitt, "The Esoteric Nenbutsu Thought of Dōhan: Kenmitsu Culture and Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism" (in Japanese)
Yusho Wakahara, "The Four Embracing Practices (saṅgrahavastu): From their Origin and Development in India to Dogen’s Appreciation" (in English)
In addition, the Inaugural preparatory issue of Journal of World Buddhist Cultures is also available on the same website.
Sincerely yours,
Takahiko Kameyama
Ryukoku University, Japan
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LECTURE / SEMINAR> "Rebirth Narratives in Buddhist Literature, Images, and Landscapes of the Northwestern Borderlands" (Jason Neelis): SOAS, 3-5 May)

by Yael Shiri
Dear colleagues, 

I am pleased to announce the last SOAS Buddhist Forum event of this academic year:

'Rebirth Narratives in Buddhist Literature, Images, and Landscapes of the Northwestern Borderlands', a lecture by Prof. Jason Neelis of Wilfrid Laurier University. 
Date: Thursday, 3 May 2018Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PMVenue: SOAS, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) Room: S209

As always, you will also have the opportunity to attend a seminar* led by Prof. Neelis on the following Saturday:
'Buddhist Inscriptions and Petroglyphs of the Upper Indus Transit Zone in Northern Pakistan'
Date: 5 May 2018Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Venue: SOAS, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) Room: S211

You can find further details on these events on our website and Facebook page.

*Both events are free and all are welcome, but registration is required for the seminar. To register, please email ys13@soas.ac.uk


About the speaker:

Jason Neelis, Associate Professor, Religion and Culture Department, Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), is currently visiting Vienna University as a Numata Buddhist Studies Chair. In Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks (Brill 2011) and in other publications, he seeks to understand patterns of early Buddhist transmission in historical, economic and material contexts with an emphasis on issues related to processes of cross-cultural mobility and exchange. He coordinated a project on Buddhist rebirth narratives in literary and visual cultures of Gandhara with support from a collaborative research grant from the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation for Buddhist Studies and is co-editing avadānas in 1st century CE Gāndhārī manuscripts of the British Library collection with Timothy Lenz. He directs a recently initiated project on Upper Indus Petroglyphs and Inscriptions in Northern Pakistan: A partnership for cultural heritage preservation and promotion, funded by a Partnership Development Grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Kind regards, 

Yael Shiri, Student Assistant at the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies (University of London)

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