On 29 August 1961, Parliament passed the State Religion Promotion Act of 1961, initiated by U Nu himself. This act made Buddhism the official state religion of the country, one of his election campaign promises as well as instated the Buddhist lunar calendar by official observance of the so-called Buddhist sabbath days, or Uposatha, in lieu of the Christian Sabbath day, Sunday. On Uposatha days, state broadcasting radio was required to dedicate its airtime to religious programs, while state schools and government offices were closed, and liquor was not allowed to be served in public spaces. The act also required government schools to teach Buddhist students the Buddhist scriptures, banned the slaughtering of cattle (beef became known as todo tha (တိုးတိုးသား); hush hush meat), and commuted death sentences for parolees. U Nu was a leading Burmese nationalist and political figure of the 20th century in Burma(Myanmar). He was the first Prime Minister of Burma under the provisions of the 1947 Constitution of the Union of Burma, from 4 January 1948 to 12 June 1956, again from 28 February 1957 to 28 October 1958, and finally from 4 April 1960 to 2 March 1962.
Holy Cows: Hinduism's Blessed Bovines Does It Make Sense to Protect the Cow?
As the sheep is to Christianity, the cow is to Hinduism. Lord Krishna was a cowherd, and the bull is depicted as the vehicle of Lord Shiva. Today the cow has almost become a symbol of Hinduism.
Cows, Cows Everywhere!
India has 30 per cent of the world's cattle. There are 26 distinctive breeds of cow in India. The hump, long ears and bushy tail distinguish the Indian cow. Here cows are everywhere! Because the cow is respected as a sacred animal, it's allowed to roam unharmed, and they are pretty used to the traffic and the rhythm of the city. So, you can see them roaming the streets in towns and cities, grazing unmindfully on the roadside grass verges and munching away vegetables thrown out by street sellers. Stray and homeless cows are also supported by temples, especially in southern India. Because of its great economic importance, it makes good sense to protect the cow. It is said Mahatma Gandhibecame a vegetarian because he felt cows were ill-treated. Such is the respect for the cow, notes scholar Jeaneane Fowler in her book on Hinduism, that Indians had offered to take in millions of cows waiting for slaughter in Britain as a result of the crisis in beef production in 1996. Religious Significance of the Cow Though the cow is held sacred to the Hindus, it is not exactly worshipped as a deity by all. On the 12th day of the 12th month of the Hindu calendar, a cow ritual is performed in Jodhpur palace, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.
Bull Temples
Nandi Bull, a vehicle of the gods, is considered the symbol of respect for all male cattle. The Nandi Bull holy site at Madurai and the Shiva temple at Mahabalipuram are the most venerated bovine shrines. Even non-Hindus are allowed to enter the the 16th century Bull Temple in Bangalore. The Vishwanath Temple of Jhansi, believed to have been built in 1002, also has a large statue of the Nandi Bull.
History of the Holy Cow
The cow was venerated as the mother goddess in the early Mediterranean civilizations. The cow became important in India, first in the Vedic period (1500 - 900 BCE), but only as a symbol of wealth. For the Vedic man cows were 'the "real life" substratum of the goods of life', writes JC Heesterman in The Encyclopedia Of Religion, vol. 5.
Cows form the core of religious sacrifices, for without ghee or clarified liquid butter, which is produced from cow's milk, no sacrifice can be performed.
In the Mahabharata, we have Bhishma saying: "Cows represent sacrifice. Without them, there can be no sacrifice…Cows are guileless in their behaviour and from them flow sacrifices…and milk and curds and butter. Hence cows are sacred..."
Bhishma also observes that the cow acts as a surrogate mother by providing milk to human beings for the whole life. So the cow is truly the mother of the world.
Cows as Gifts
Of all gifts, the cow is still considered the highest in rural India. The Puranas, ancient Hindu scriptures, have it that nothing is more pious than the gift of cows. "There is no gift that produces more blessed merit." Lord Rama was given a dowry of thousands of cows and bullocks when he married Sita.
Cow-Dung, Ahoy!
Cows are also thought to be cleansers and sanctifiers. The cow-dung is an efficacious disinfectant and often used as fuel in lieu of firewood. In the scriptures, we find the sage Vyasa saying that cows are the most efficacious cleansers of all.
No Beef Please!
Since the cow is thought to be God's useful gift to mankind, consuming beef or veal is considered sacrilegious for Hindus. Selling beef is banned in many Indian cities, and few Hindus would be ready to even taste cattle meat, for socio-cultural reasons.
Brahmins & Beef
Hinduism and Islam: A Comparative Study, however, says that the cow used to be slaughtered by the ancient Hindus for beef as well as sacrifice. "There are clear evidences in the Rig Veda, the most sacred Hindu scripture, that the cow used to be sacrificed by Hindus for religious purposes." Gandhi in his Hindu Dharma writes about "a sentence in our Sanskrit text-book to the effect that Brahmins of old used to eat beef".
ကဲ ႏြားသားစားတဲ႕ကိစၥ စပါမယ္... ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ငယ္ငယ္ေလးကတည္းကစ အခုအခ်ိန္ထိ အမဲသားမစားဖူး ပါဘူး... ဘာလို႕မစားလဲဆိုေတာ႕ ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းက အနံ႕ရတာနဲ႕ ညီွလြန္းျပီး ေခါင္းမူးလြန္းလို႕ပါ...
ReplyDeleteျပီးေတာ႕ စာသင္ေပးတဲ႕ ဆရာဆရာမေတြ နဲ႕ မာမားကလည္းေျပာဖူးပါတယ္ ႏြားဆိုတာ
ေတာင္သူလယ္သမားေတြရဲ႕ ေက်းဇူးရွင္ ေတာင္သူလယ္သမားဆိုတာ ျပည္သူေတြ ထမင္းစားဖို႕အတြက္ လယ္ထဲဆင္းျပီး ရုန္းကန္လႈပ္ရွားေပးေနရတဲ႕ သူေတြ... သူတို႕ေတြလည္း ႏြားမပါပဲနဲ႕ စပါးေတြ မစိုက္ပ်ဳိးႏုိင္ဘူး စပါးမစိုက္ပ်ဳိးႏိုင္ရင္ ဆန္ ဆုိတာမရိွလာဘူး... ဆန္မရိွရင္ လူေတြလည္း အသက္ရွင္ဖို႕ခက္ခဲတယ္... အစရိွတဲ႕ စကားေပါင္းမ်ားစြာနဲ႕ရွင္းျပဖူးတာ ငယ္ငယ္ကတည္းကေန အခုထိ မွတ္သားမိေနတုန္းပါပဲ... ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ၁၀ တန္းေလာက္ေရာက္ေတာ႕ သိလာခဲ႕တာ တစ္ခုက ကၽြဲသား ႏြားသား ကို မစားဘဲနဲ႕ ေရွာင္က်ဥ္းျခင္းဟာ ေရာဂါကင္းျပီး အသက္ရွည္တယ္ဆိုျပီး သိခဲ႕ရတယ္... ဒါေပမယ္႕ အဲ႕ဒီတုန္းကလည္း သိပ္ျပီး ေသခ်ာၾကီးသိတာေတာ႕မဟုတ္ဘူးေပါ႕... ကိုယ္တုိင္ကလည္း အမဲသားမစားတဲ႕သူဆိုေတာ႕ေကာင္းတာေပါ႕... အဲဒီမွာ ေစာဒက တက္ဖို႕က အမဲသားစားမွလား တျခားအသားစားရင္ေရာ မျဖစ္ဘူးလား... မဟုတ္ဘူးျဖစ္တယ္..
အစ္ပြဲ တြင္ မြတ္စလာမ္ ႏြားသတ္ပါသည္။ ႏြားသတ္ေသာ ေႀကာင့္ အဘယ္သို ့ကုသိုလ္ အက်ိဴးထူးရရိွပါသနည္း။ အဘယ္ အေႀကာင္း ေႀကာင့္ ရပါသနည္း ။ ႏြားသတ္ လွ်င္ ကုသိုလ္ ရသည္ ဟူရွဳ္ မည္သူ သြန္သင္ ဆံူးမ ပါသနည္း။ ဆိုေသာ အခ်က္ၿဖစ္ပါသည္။ လယ္တီဆရာေတာ္ကလည္း လူေတြအား အမဲသားလွဴဖို႔ တိုက္တြန္းခဲ့တယ္... အဲဒါေၾကာင္႕ အမဲသားကို ေရွာင္ၾကည္ၾကဖို႕ တုိက္တြန္းခ်င္ပါတယ္...
Deleteလူေတြကို .....လယ္ထြန္ေကၽြးတဲ့ ႏြားကို ေက်းဇူးရွင္ အေနနဲ႔ ...ေဘးမဲ့ေပးျပီး ထားတဲ့ ဟိႏၵဴဘာသာတရား ရဲ့ ....သတၱ၀ါေတြ အေပၚထားတဲ့ ေမတၱာတရားနဲ႔
Deleteႏြား၊ဆိတ္စတဲ့ တိရစၧာန္ေလးေတြကို မွ ....လည္လွီးသတ္ျပီး
တိရစၧာန္ေသြးနဲ႔ အလႅာဟ္ကို ယစ္ပူေဇာ္တဲ့ ......အစၥလာမ္မစ္ေတြ နဲ႔
ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ၾကည့္ေလ.....ေ၀းေလ.....
ပါလက္စၥတိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ဂါဇာျမိဳ႕တြင္ ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၇ရက္ေန႔(စေနေန႔)2012 က က်ေရာက္ေသာ အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာတို႔၏ အိဒ္ပြဲေတာ္အတြင္း ႏြား လည္လွီးရန္ ၾကိဳးစားသူ ပါလစၥတိုင္းအမ်ိဳးသား တစ္ဦးအား ႏြားသတ္၍ ေသဆံုးသြားေၾကာင္း ယင္းအစိုးရမွ တရား၀င္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္သည္။ ကမၻာတ၀ွမ္း၌ အစၥလာမ္တို႔၏ အိဒ္ပြဲေတာ္ ၄ရက္အတြင္း ႏြားႏွင့္ ဆိတ္ကို ေသာၾကာေန႔က စတင္လည္လွီးသတ္ျဖတ္မႈ စ တင္ခဲ့သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။ အဆိုပါ ဂါဇာျမိဳ႕အတြင္း တိရစၦာန္မ်ားကို သတ္ျဖတ္ရန္ၾကိဳးစားသူ လူေပါင္း ၁၅၀ ဦးမွာလည္း ေဆးကုသရန္ ေဆးရံုသို႔ေရာ က္ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ဂါဇာျမိဳ႕ရွိ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ၾကီး ဌာနမွ Ashraf al-Kidra ကဆိုသည္။ ပါကစၥတန္ႏိုင္ငံ ပါရွာ၀ါေျမာက္ဘက္တြင္ လည္းႏြားလွီရန္ ျပဳလုပ္စဥ္ ႏြားတစ္ေကာင္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ျပီး ကေလးတဦးပါ၀င္ လူၾကီး ၂ဦးဒဏ္ရာရခဲ့ျပီး အဆိုပါလြတ္ေျမာက္ႏြား အား လူ ဒါစင္ခန္႔ျပန္လည္ ဖမ္းဆီးျပီး လည္လွီးသတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့ရသည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။
Delete( *** မွတ္ခ်က္ ။ ။ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား ၊ မေလးရွား၊ အာဖဂန္နစၥတန္၊ ပါကစၥတန္ စတဲ့ ဗုဒၶဘာသာနိုင္ငံေတြ က.... ရဟန္းသံဃာေတြကို လည္ လွီး ေခါင္းျဖတ္သတ္ျဖတ္ေခ်မႈန္း ျပီး ....အစၥလာမ္ နိုင္ ငံ အတြင္း သို ့သြတ္သြင္းလာခဲ့ေသာ မြတ္ဆလင္အစၥလမ္မစ္ေတြဟာ
ReplyDeleteအခုဆိုရင္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား ၊ မေလးရွား၊ အာဖဂန္နစၥတန္၊ ပါကစၥတန္ စတဲ့ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ နိုင္ငံ ေတြ ကို တစ္နိုင္ငံျပီး တစ္နိုင္ငံ ေခ်မွုန္းျပီး …… ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ရဲ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးေသာ ခံတပ္ နိုင္ငံေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာ နဲ ့ ထိုင္း၊ သီရိလကၤာ နိုင္ငံတို ့ကို ျခိမ္းေျခာက္လာေနပါျပီ
ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ရဲ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးေသာ ခံတပ္ နိုင္ငံေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာ နဲ ့ ထိုင္း၊ သီရိလကၤာ နိုင္ငံတို ့ ကို သာ အစၥလာမ္ နိုင္ ငံ ျဖစ္သြားေအာင္လုပ္နိုင္ရင္ ......ဤ ကမာၻ ေျမေပၚမွာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ဟာ အျပီးတိုင္ေအာင္ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ သြား ျပီ လို ့ ဆိုနိုင္ ပါတယ္။
မြတ္ဆလင္ေတြ ဟာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ရဲ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးေသာ ခံတပ္ နိုင္ငံေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာ နဲ ့ ထိုင္း၊ သီရိလကၤာ နိုင္ငံတို ့ ကို သာ အစၥလာမ္ နိုင္ ငံ ျဖစ္ ေအာင္လုပ္ နိုင္ ရင္ .....မြတ္ဆလင္ေတြ ဟာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၊ ဗုဒၶသာသနာ ကို ကမာၻ ေျမေပၚမွ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္သြားေအာင္ အျပီး တိုင္ ဖ်က္ဆီးနိုင္ခဲ့ျပီလို ့ဆို နိုင္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကေလး ေမြးဖြားနွုန္း နဲ ့ လူဦးေရတိုး ပြားပံု အရ ဆိုရင္ ျမန္မာ ၊ထိုင္း၊ သီရိလၤကာနိုင္ငံ ပါ ေနာင္ နွစ္ ၁၀၀ အတြင္းမွာ မြတ္ ဆလင္ လူဦးေရ တ၀က္ေက်ာ္ နိုင္ငံ ေတြ ျဖစ္ သြားေတာ့မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကာကြယ္တာဆီးဖို ့ က ခင္ဗ်ားတို ့၊ က်ေနာ္တို ့အားလံုးရဲ ့တာ၀န္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ရဲ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးေသာ ခံတပ္ နိုင္ငံေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာ နဲ ့ ထိုင္း၊ သီရိလကၤာ နိုင္ငံေတြကို ၀ိုက္ဖို႔ မြတ္ဆလင္ေတြ ရဲ့ ဗလီေဆာက္ႏႈန္းေတြ ကို ၾကည့္ပါ။
အဂၤလိပ္ေခတ္က်မွ ေဆာက္လိုက္ေသာ ဆူးေလဗလီ
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ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕မွာ ၁၈၂၆ မတိုင္ခင္တုန္းက ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕တစ္ျမိဳ႕လုံုးမွာ ဗလီတစ္လံုးမွ မရွိပါဘူး
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ေဆာ္ဒီနိုင္ငံမွာ မူဆလင္ေတြ က ဗုဒၶဘာသာေစတီပုထိုး၊ ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားေက်ာင္တစ္ခု ၊ ဟိႏၵဴဘုရားေက်ာင္းတစ္ခု ေဆာက္လုပ္ခြင့္ေပးပါသလား?
ဗုဒၶဘာသာရဲ့ ေနာက္ဆံုးေသာခံတပ္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဧ။္အခ်က္အခ်ာ က်ေသာေနရာမ်ားတြင္ ဗလီေပါင္း ၂၇၀၀ ေက်ာ္ေဆာက္ျပီးသြားပါျပီ။
ဗုဒၶဘာသာရဲ့ ေနာက္ဆံုးေသာခံတပ္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ဗလီေပါင္း ၃၄၀၀ ေက်ာ္ေဆာက္ျပီးသြားပါျပီ။
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ဗုဒၶဘာသာရဲ့ ေနာက္ဆံုးေသာခံတပ္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ သီရိလကၤာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ဗလီအလံုးေပါင္း ၅၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ေဆာက္ျပီးသြားပါျပီ။
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ဘာအတြက္ေဆာက္ပါသနည္း?
လြတ္လပ္စြာကိုးကြယ္ခြင့္အတြက္လား ? အစၥလာမ္ဇာတ္သြင္းဖို႔လား ?
ဒါေတြ ဟာ ဘာကို ဦးတည္ေနပါသလဲ ?
ကိုယ့္ေရွ႕ က ဗုဒၶဘာသာေနာင္ေတာ္ ႏိုင္ငံၾကီးေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ .....အင္ဒိုနီးရွား ၊ မေလးရွား၊ အာဖဂန္နစၥတန္၊ ပါကစၥတန္ စတဲ့ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ နိုင္ငံ ေတြ ဘာျဖစ္သြားခဲ့ပါသလဲ?
ရလဒ္က ဘာျဖစ္သြားခဲ့ပါသလဲ ?
ေကာက္က်စ္လွတဲ့ အစၥလာမ္မစ္ေတြရဲ့ ကုရ္အာန္က်မ္းအရ ရန္သူကို အႏိုင္ယူေခ်မႈန္းဖို႔ ( တရား၀င္ ) လိမ္လည္ခြင့္ေပးထားတဲ့ Taqiyya စကားေတြမွာ ေမ်ာမေနပဲ....လက္ေတြ႕( လက္ေတြ႕ ) ျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့၊ ျဖစ္ေနဆဲ၊ အေျခအေနမ်ားျဖင့္သာ အစၥလာမ္အယူ၀ါဒရဲ့ ဦးတည္ခ်က္၊ လည္ပတ္ေနပံုကို သံုးသပ္ပါ။
ကာကြယ္တာဆီးဖို ့ က ခင္ဗ်ားတို ့၊ က်ေနာ္တို ့အားလံုးရဲ ့တာ၀န္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ *** )
ဤကမာၻကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္လ်ွက္ရွိေသာ ေလာကပါလတရား ၊ ဓမၼတရား ၊ ျဗဟၼာဏတရား ၊ သမၼာတရား တို ့အားျဖင့္ မေကာင္းဆိုး၀ါးအလႅာဟ္ဧ။္ အစၥလာမ္မိစာၦအယူ၀ါဒ ဧကန္မုခ် က်ဆံုးရမည္ ။
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ReplyDeleteOn 29 August 1961, Parliament passed the State Religion Promotion Act of 1961, initiated by U Nu himself. This act made Buddhism the official state religion of the country, one of his election campaign promises as well as instated the Buddhist lunar calendar by official observance of the so-called Buddhist sabbath days, or Uposatha, in lieu of the Christian Sabbath day, Sunday. On Uposatha days, state broadcasting radio was required to dedicate its airtime to religious programs, while state schools and government offices were closed, and liquor was not allowed to be served in public spaces. The act also required government schools to teach Buddhist students the Buddhist scriptures, banned the slaughtering of cattle (beef became known as todo tha (တိုးတိုးသား); hush hush meat), and commuted death sentences for parolees.
ReplyDeleteU Nu was a leading Burmese nationalist and political figure of the 20th century in Burma(Myanmar). He was the first Prime Minister of Burma under the provisions of the 1947 Constitution of the Union of Burma, from 4 January 1948 to 12 June 1956, again from 28 February 1957 to 28 October 1958, and finally from 4 April 1960 to 2 March 1962.
၁၉၆၁ ခုနှစ် ဩဂုတ်လ ၂၉ ရက်တွင် ပါလီမန်သည် ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာကို နိုင်ငံတော်ဘာသာ အဖြစ်ကြေငြာခဲ့သည်။ (ဤ ဖွဲ့စည်းအုပ်ချုပ်ပုံ အခြေခံ ဥပဒေ ပြင်ဆင်ချက်သည် ၁၉၆၂ ခုနှစ် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်နေဝင်း အာဏာသိမ်းသည့် အခါတွင် ပျက်ပြယ်သွားခဲ့သည်။) နွားသတ်ခြင်းကိုလည်း တရားဝင်ပိတ်ပင်ခဲ့သဖြင့် အမဲသားကို တိုးတိုးသားအဖြစ် ခေါ်ဝေါ်ရသည် အထိဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်။ ၁၉၆၂ ခုနှစ်တွင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်နေဝင်းအာဏာသိမ်းယူပြီးသောအခါ သူ၏ ပထမဦးဆုံးဆောင်ရွက်ချက်တစ်ခုမှာ နွားသတ်ခြင်းကိစ္စကို ဖျက်သိမ်းခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ ဤအချက်သည် ဦးနေဝင်းနှင့် ဦးနုတို့၏ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ရေးတိုက်ခိုက်မှု၏ သင်္ကေတတစ်ခု ဖြစ်သည်။
Deleteယခုအခ်ိန္မွာေရာ ၊ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဝါဒီမ်ားပါဟု ေၾကြးေၾကာ္ေနသူမ်ားက ၊ ကမၻာၾကီးတစ္ခုလံုး ၂၁ ရာစုမွာ အစၥလာမ္ကမၻာၾကီးျဖစ္ရမည္ဟု ၾကံဳးဝါးေနျပန္ျပီ ။ စီမံခ်က္ခ်ျပီး အၾကမ္းနည္း ၊ အႏုနည္း နည္းလမ္း(၂)သြယ္ျဖင့္ ၾကံစည္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၾကျပန္ျပီ ။
Deleteက်ေနာ္တို႔ စိတ္ခ်လက္ခ် ေနလို႔ျဖစ္ပါ့မလား ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ျမန္မာတို႔သည္ ဝတၳဳပစၥည္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ဘယ္သူေတြ ဘယ္ေလာက္ခ်မ္းသာခ်မ္းသာ ၊ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ကို ယံုၾကည္လက္ခံသူ မဟုတ္ဟုဆိုလ်င္ စိတ္ထဲမွ ၾကိတ္ျပီး ၊ အထင္ေသးကာ သနားေနတတ္ေလ့ ရွိသည္ ။ ဒါကို အခ်ိဳ႕မသိသူမ်ားက ႏိုင္ငံျခားသား မုန္းတီးျခင္းေရာဂါ (xenophoebia) စြဲကပ္ေနသည္ဟု ကင္ပြန္းတပ္သည္ ။ အမွန္မွာ ႏို္င္ငံျခားသားမုန္းတီးျခင္းေရာဂါမဟုတ္ ။ အျခားဘာသာကို ေအာ့ႏွလံုးနာ အထင္ေသး ရြံရွာ စက္ဆုပ္သည့္ ေရာဂါ ၊ တနည္းအားျဖင့္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာကိုသာ ျမတ္ႏိုးဆည္းကပ္လိုသည့္ ဆႏၵျဖစ္သည္ ။
တျပိဳင္နက္ ၊ မူဆလင္တို႔၏ ႏြားသတ္ ယာဇ္ပူေဇာ္သည့္ဓေလ့ကိုလည္း စိတ္ထဲက ၾကိတ္ျပီး ၊ ပေပ်ာက္ေစခ်င္သည့္ ဆႏၵရွိေနျပန္သည္ ။ ဒါေတြမလုပ္ရဟု တရားဝင္ပိတ္ပင္လို႔ကလည္း မရစေကာင္း ။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာကို ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ဘာသာ ျပ႒ာန္းေရးကိစၥႏွင့္ ေတာခိုသြားခဲ့ၾကေသာ ကိစၥကလည္း ရွိခဲ့ေသးသည္မဟုတ္လား ။
Holy Cows: Hinduism's Blessed Bovines
ReplyDeleteDoes It Make Sense to Protect the Cow?
As the sheep is to Christianity, the cow is to Hinduism. Lord Krishna was a cowherd, and the bull is depicted as the vehicle of Lord Shiva. Today the cow has almost become a symbol of Hinduism.
Cows, Cows Everywhere!
India has 30 per cent of the world's cattle. There are 26 distinctive breeds of cow in India. The hump, long ears and bushy tail distinguish the Indian cow.
Here cows are everywhere! Because the cow is respected as a sacred animal, it's allowed to roam unharmed, and they are pretty used to the traffic and the rhythm of the city. So, you can see them roaming the streets in towns and cities, grazing unmindfully on the roadside grass verges and munching away vegetables thrown out by street sellers. Stray and homeless cows are also supported by temples, especially in southern India. Because of its great economic importance, it makes good sense to protect the cow. It is said Mahatma Gandhibecame a vegetarian because he felt cows were ill-treated. Such is the respect for the cow, notes scholar Jeaneane Fowler in her book on Hinduism, that Indians had offered to take in millions of cows waiting for slaughter in Britain as a result of the crisis in beef production in 1996.
Religious Significance of the Cow
Though the cow is held sacred to the Hindus, it is not exactly worshipped as a deity by all. On the 12th day of the 12th month of the Hindu calendar, a cow ritual is performed in Jodhpur palace, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.
Bull Temples
Nandi Bull, a vehicle of the gods, is considered the symbol of respect for all male cattle. The Nandi Bull holy site at Madurai and the Shiva temple at Mahabalipuram are the most venerated bovine shrines. Even non-Hindus are allowed to enter the the 16th century Bull Temple in Bangalore. The Vishwanath Temple of Jhansi, believed to have been built in 1002, also has a large statue of the Nandi Bull.
History of the Holy Cow
The cow was venerated as the mother goddess in the early Mediterranean civilizations. The cow became important in India, first in the Vedic period (1500 - 900 BCE), but only as a symbol of wealth. For the Vedic man cows were 'the "real life" substratum of the goods of life', writes JC Heesterman in The Encyclopedia Of Religion, vol. 5.
DeleteCows as Symbol of Sacrifice
Cows form the core of religious sacrifices, for without ghee or clarified liquid butter, which is produced from cow's milk, no sacrifice can be performed.
In the Mahabharata, we have Bhishma saying: "Cows represent sacrifice. Without them, there can be no sacrifice…Cows are guileless in their behaviour and from them flow sacrifices…and milk and curds and butter. Hence cows are sacred..."
Bhishma also observes that the cow acts as a surrogate mother by providing milk to human beings for the whole life. So the cow is truly the mother of the world.
Cows as Gifts
Of all gifts, the cow is still considered the highest in rural India. The Puranas, ancient Hindu scriptures, have it that nothing is more pious than the gift of cows. "There is no gift that produces more blessed merit." Lord Rama was given a dowry of thousands of cows and bullocks when he married Sita.
Cow-Dung, Ahoy!
Cows are also thought to be cleansers and sanctifiers. The cow-dung is an efficacious disinfectant and often used as fuel in lieu of firewood. In the scriptures, we find the sage Vyasa saying that cows are the most efficacious cleansers of all.
No Beef Please!
Since the cow is thought to be God's useful gift to mankind, consuming beef or veal is considered sacrilegious for Hindus. Selling beef is banned in many Indian cities, and few Hindus would be ready to even taste cattle meat, for socio-cultural reasons.
Brahmins & Beef
Hinduism and Islam: A Comparative Study, however, says that the cow used to be slaughtered by the ancient Hindus for beef as well as sacrifice. "There are clear evidences in the Rig Veda, the most sacred Hindu scripture, that the cow used to be sacrificed by Hindus for religious purposes." Gandhi in his Hindu Dharma writes about "a sentence in our Sanskrit text-book to the effect that Brahmins of old used to eat beef".