I weep for Nalanda and for Religious Freedom

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I weep for Nalanda and for Religious Freedom
OP - November 10, 2011, 04:24 PM

Apologies for those whom I offend, but I shall never shut up about Nalanda as long as I live. Thousands of Buddhist Scholar monks were slain, and all of the manuscripts were burned (it took one week). Many manuscripts were destroyed forever, or only survive in Chinese/Tibetan translations. And this was the culmination of a campaign in which all Buddhist monks were slain and their monasteries destroyed. Thus Buddhism was driven out of central Asia and Northern India by 1197 CE. I do not want such a thing to happen to Buddhism again, nor do I want it to happen to any other religion. Furthermore, I do not want the spread of any ideology hat teaches such slaughter and intellectual destruction to be good.

I weep for Nalanda
Even if no others do.

To do otherwise
would betray my mind.

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Reply #1 - November 10, 2011, 04:31 PM

Ok.

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Reply #2 - November 10, 2011, 04:35 PM

By this logic, a modern-day Muslim can forever weep for the Mongol sacking of Baghdad.

Not that there's anything necessarily wrong in that. It's just.. odd.

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Reply #3 - November 10, 2011, 04:40 PM

Toor: I in no way begrudge them this, but the destruction of Nalanda was guided by Islam. But there was no similar religious ideology behind Baghdad (The Mongols were a diverse bunch: Tengriists, Muslims, Nestorian Christians, Buddhists, even a few Daoists).

If more people were to learn of Nalanda, they would, I think, be less willing to Regard Islam in a good light (even as their own religion).

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Reply #4 - November 10, 2011, 04:40 PM

Do you actually literally weep? Videos or it didn't happen.

قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
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Reply #5 - November 10, 2011, 04:43 PM

Yes, I do. It is difficult for me to cry, yet I weep for Nalanda, and have wept for it in the past. It is an easy word to cry over.

Na-lannda...uhuhu

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Reply #6 - November 10, 2011, 05:06 PM

Alot of atrocities were commited throughout history in the name of Islam. Its good to remember that, especially considering how sometimes these things are whitewashed - but only in so much as its not dwelled and fixated on morbidly, or cloud our ability to be rational about things in the present day, or to victimise Muslims today.

In an ideal world, Muslims would write about the dark aspects of Islamic history with as much honesty as, say, western and Christian scholars have written about Christianity's darkest persecutions. That is part of the process of introspection and self criticism that, in that ideal world, could help Islam to reform itself by acknowledging the suffering of others.

But YellowSky, don't become a hair-pulling victimhood mongerer about it, bearing a grudge. Look at those Muslims with a chip on their shoulder about their supposed disposession and imperialistic fantasies, stewing in their own bitterness and irrelevance.

"we can smell traitors and country haters"

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Reply #7 - November 10, 2011, 05:20 PM

I do not stew in bitterness. Nalanda Upsets me ius all, And I hope that many Muslims would likewise be upset if they were to learn of it.

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Reply #8 - November 10, 2011, 05:26 PM

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I do not stew in bitterness.

Good to hear that! I believe you'd rather ferment in the grapes of the Buddha, than stew in the bitterness of past grievance. A wise decision.

"we can smell traitors and country haters"

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Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.
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