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A Cambodian prayer
- Maha Ghosananda, 1929–2007 Source: Primary Point 1984, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 3 Note: Ven. Maha Ghosananda is one of the few surviving Theravadan Buddhist monks from Cambodia. In 1980 he was invited to the United Nations to represent the nation of the Khmers in exile, as well as to gain support for the Cambodian peace movement and to teach Buddhism. In his U.N work he travels throughout the United States and Europe, to reach Cambodian refugee communities. He was trained in his native Cambodia to become a disciple of the internationally acclaimed Japanese monk Nichidatsu Fujii (who was 99 years old), founder of the Nihonzan Myohoji sect devoted to the. establishment of world peace. After 15 years in India at Fujii Ashram in Rajgir, Maha Ghosananda traveled to Buddhist centers throughout Southeast Asia and Ceylon. He was in Thailand during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia in which most of his Buddhist colleagues were killed. Meeting the first influx of refugees, he distributed 40,000 leaflets on the Buddha's discourse of the power of metta (loving kindness), helped establish schools and temples in the camps, and became a major figure for the refugees as well as the international community. There is a steady flow of visitors to his temple in Providence, RI, An accomplished linguist, he speaks.Cambodian, Thai, French, and English. Last December he met with Pope John Paul II in Rome, to discuss the plight of the many thousands of Cambodian refugees stranded in Thailand. He recently left for a peace mission to Thailand and possibly Cambodia, with hopes that the Pope would also visit the refugee camps in Thailand this spring Catalan subject: Pregària Budisme ; Budisme Discursos ; Ecumenisme Congressos English subject: Prayer Buddhism ; Buddhism Speeches, addresses, etc. ; Ecumenical movement Congresses Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/lecture ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Legal notice: © Kwan Um School of Zen Comparative relevance: 13.193137 - 1 p. - View full record |
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A prayer
- Maha Ghosananda, 1929–2007 Source: Primary Point 2008, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 7 Note: Abstract not available Catalan subject: Budisme poesia ; Drets humans Cambodja English subject: Buddhism Poetry ; Human rights Cambodia Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/other ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Legal notice: © Kwan Um School of Zen Comparative relevance: 13.193137 - 2 p. - View full record |
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What are the problems of the nuclear age that you think we can solve and how?
- Maha Ghosananda, 1929–2007 ; Sister Vilma Seelaus ; Brown, Richard ; Halifax, Joan Source: Primary Point 1984, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 6-7 Note: Abstract not available Catalan subject: Ecumenisme Congressos ; Pau Aspectes religiosos Budisme English subject: Peace Religious aspects Buddhism ; Ecumenical movement Congresses Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Legal notice: © Kwan Um School of Zen Comparative relevance: 6.5965686 - 2 p. - View full record |