Monastics under attack - please help.
http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=13583
Please, take a few minutes to click through, read, then sign the petition. Whatever religion you practice, whatever your spiritual beliefs, this is an serious injustice that must be addressed.
Just a brief excerpt from the above link:
"hired mobs arrived on the stormy night of September 27, 2009 to forcibly and violently eject 147 monks, smash doors and windows and torment the 232 nuns. They all escaped and sought shelter at Phuoc Hue temple. At Phuoc Hue, the monks and nuns continue to be harassed, and the most compassionate and elderly abbot of that temple, after much resistance, also has been violently forced to sign a letter evicting our monastics. As of December 31, 2009, these brothers and sisters will have absolutely no place to go, and in fact may be drafted by the government into the armed forces"
Please, take a few minutes to click through, read, then sign the petition. Whatever religion you practice, whatever your spiritual beliefs, this is an serious injustice that must be addressed.
Just a brief excerpt from the above link:
"hired mobs arrived on the stormy night of September 27, 2009 to forcibly and violently eject 147 monks, smash doors and windows and torment the 232 nuns. They all escaped and sought shelter at Phuoc Hue temple. At Phuoc Hue, the monks and nuns continue to be harassed, and the most compassionate and elderly abbot of that temple, after much resistance, also has been violently forced to sign a letter evicting our monastics. As of December 31, 2009, these brothers and sisters will have absolutely no place to go, and in fact may be drafted by the government into the armed forces"