January 23, 2008

• They're desperate for the subs.
• The monks at Nga Phe Kyaung train cats to jump through hoops, but whether that counts as praying? The dog is great, but what a shame they didn't think to put a scarf on it.
• Or a prayer shawl?
• He's a pray-rie dog! *taps mike* Tis thing on?
• Sorry for the buzzkill: Sexual discrimination or sexism was not at all a part of the original teaching of the Buddha, who excluded no one. The Lord Buddha, we may conclude, was not a sexist. Sadly, the karma of sexism is still healthy and strong today in most Buddhist countries, such as Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Only some communities in Sri Lanka ordain women. Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, ordination of women is illegal. The Ecclesiastical Council of Thailand, for example, announced publicly that any monk who supports the ordination of women will be subject to severe punishment. Nevertheless, in the Theravada tradition as a whole, the Eight Heavy Duties [sexist rules regarding nuns] are followed faithfully as authentic words of the Lord Buddha. In Theravada countries, Buddhist religion has never been in support of human rights and social justice. As long as there is no reformation of the religious education system in Buddhism and the Tripitaka, the religion will remain the biggest obstacle for the development of democracy and social justice in these countries.
• I could use a seeing third-eye dog, actually.
• Excellent save, Cappy!
• I can haz prair wheel?
• So there is a definitive answer to the question, pace Joshu's Mu
• The Burakumin -

  "There is a tradition that people carve a religious name for the dead on the face of a tomb as a sign of worship. That is a practice for many Buddhist religious organizations. The name for the dead is Kaimyo, posthumous Kaimyo is given by a Buddhist priest and is recorded in a post-memorial-notebook at the temple the dead belonged to. Of late, it was discovered that discriminatory names and characters in the notebooks and on the faces of the tombs exist. These were given by Buddhist priests to the dead who were of Buraku origin. The names include the characters for beast, humble, ignoble, servant and many other kinds of derogatory expressions. Upon the disclosure, Buddhist organizations started to widely investigate notebooks and tombs in response to the requests of the BLL [Buraku Liberation League]. They found discriminatory Kaimyo, at many Buddhist sects in most parts of Japan. While the majority seems to have been given a long time ago, there are some names given even since the 1940's."

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• i love that monkey so much i believe i would be its love monkey, if i were not beyond earthly love in that Buddhist way.
• As an athiest, I'm proud to point out that we totally allow entry to dogs in shawls, annoyed monkeys, aliens on Mars, and bears in ill-fitting hats. Heck, even inanimate objects are welcome to not believe in god! However, we lack a chihuahua named Conan. People, we need to get on this right away! Chop chop!
• Buddhists don't pray.
• Yes they do.
• Buddhist Fight! Fucking ace. My money's on the bald bloke dousing himself in petrol.
• That wasn't a Buddhist action, according to the monks I have spoken to.
• Anyway, my money's on the bald bloke with the matches.
• Al-fucking-right then. My money's on the bloke with the smug sense of inner peace. fucking buddhists
• the bloke with the smug sense of inner peace. This will not generally be a Buddhist priest. I know there have been scandals, self-immolations and hair shaving but… Monks that I have met that possess inner peace (nay, exude it) are far, far from smug.
• Fuck me, I wish I'd never started this...
• Buddhist Fight? That's like where two monks sit cross-legged meditating, and remain completely stationary for about 8 hours? Then they stand up and bow, and go away? And as they're going, the corner of the mouth of one of them just twitches slightly? Never been able to work out whether that one is the winner or the loser.
• Monkeyfilter: Fuck me, I wish I'd never started this...
• and I wish I could do HTML
• Nice one Plegger. First tagline in ages for me and you futz it up. No Vimto for you at tea-time.
• *cries*
• Monkeyfilter: No Vimto for you at tea-time. There you go, kit. At least some of us are competent.
• DAMMIT
• Karma.
• I love you guys.
• Jatakas: A Tale-Tell Vision of Buddhism
• Haw Haw.
• mechagrue: so adopt a chihuahua and name it Conan. Gosh!
• Way to go, Kitfisto. Would you care to redeem yourself by becoming our self-appointed athiest chihuahua named Conan? Because if so, we can grant you immunity from the non-self-immolating Buddhists who're after your ass now.
• Who isn't after Kit's ass, tho?
• Fershure. *does that 'licks finger / touches butt thing'* PSsssssSSs!
• what a strange person!
• Is this where I mention that website without a praying dog?--Pimp. Your. Rat.
• Pimp Your Ferret. I am 100% positive that this was FPPd ages ago. However, the careful observer will note that they have since rotated the inventory to include winter gear. So it's practically a whole new link! Right?
• Ferrets! In hoods!! And turtlenecks!! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
• This is what I imagine Louis to look like. In my wildest and wettest dreams...
• Ooh la la!
• Needs glasses.
• Thai monks told to behave on networking Web sites
• In Buddhist Thailand, karma phishes you! What - that's, right, right? Okay okay, howabout "What is the sound of one browser crashing?" ?