Bahasa IndonesiaOsama bin Laden’s Death is a “Sadness”
May 6, 2011, Bhagavant.com, Dharamsala, India –last Monday [2/5], located in the White House, president of the United States, Barrack Obama, gave an official statement regarding the death of the Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan.
The announcement about the death of the US government’s most wanted man for almost 10 years was released wide by numerous mass media in the world and was welcomed by people around the word, especially the citizen of the United States.
Then how is the Buddhist reaction towards the death of Osama bin Laden? Here are answers from Y.M. Dalai Lama XIV who were released by IANS, that might be an inspiration.
Dalai Lama XIV, source
When asked during youth KTT in California about his feelings regarding the festivity of bin Laden’s death, the Nobel Prize winner said “From a perspective of a Buddhist where your enemy is your best teacher, (then) it is sad.”
“But for thise who believe that enemy is real enemy, they will have a different perspective,” said Dalai Lama, as released in the official Tibet government site in exile.
He said that the occurrence of many tragedies in the world today is the emphasis on secondary values like country and religion, instead of global perspective.
“There’s a need to instill the feeling of global responsibility and to incorporate techings of moral ethics in the education system.”
He also asked the citizen to “learn the problem in the Muslim community and promise to place an effort in promoting the better relationship between Buddhist and Muslim in India.” [Bhagavant, 5/5/11, Sum]
Originally posted by Iva on December 7, 2011 at 8:25 AM in webs.kusalayani.com
