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Message: <blockquote data-quote="flynnrider" data-source="post: 13551675" data-attributes="member: 409745">Save my future generation, appeals Buddhist leader in BangladeshThe  Buddha statues made of gold are lost forever. The intrinsic designs of  Khadi wood are lost in the inferno. The Tripitak is lost too. But for  Shreemad Satyapriya Mohathero, who had just turned 83, the loss and pain  are even greater. He has lost all faith in his knowledge and reading of  humanity.“Even in 1971, I did not see this grotesque brutality on us,” Mohathero says.Mohathero is the second highest priest of the Buddhist community in Bangladesh.“Muslim  men and women had taken refuge in my monastery in 1971 to escape the  wrath of the Pakistani army,” the feeble man says. “I have saved so many  Muslim souls from the brutal persecution of the Pakistanis. Today I  feel defeated.”The Mohathero slowly walked into the Sima  monastery yesterday afternoon, supported by his disciples. He went from  one pagoda to another, and looked at the defaced, damaged statues of  Lord Buddha and the nobles in a state of stupor.<img src="http://www.thejakartapost.com/files/images2/buddhist%20temples_0.img_assist_custom-180x120.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A  Bangladeshi Buddhist monk checks the remains of burned religious books  at a Buddhist temple which was torched in an overnight weekend attack in  Ramu in the coastal district of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Monday.  Hundreds of Buddhists fled their southern Bangladesh villages in the  wake of attacks by Muslims who burned at least 10 Buddhist temples and  40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran.The Buddhists  started returning home Monday amid heightened security and more than 160  arrests. (AP/A.M.Ahad)He was sweating. He was shaking in pain and exasperation. And he spoke in his gentle, quaint voice.The Bangalees who had taken refuge in his monastery invented a trick to evade the Pakistan army.“I  am a China Buddhist,” they would tell the Pakistan army when  intercepted. When Bangladesh was at war, China sided with Pakistan. This  is why the Pakistan army had great respect for anyone affiliated with  China. A China Buddhist was a respectable person and so was to be spared  persecution.“The Pakistanis did not torch our village. This  attack is totally out of the blue,” Mohathero says. “This is an attack  on my religion. I have no foes.”And yet he had to run for his  life. When the mob attacked his monastery, his disciples held him on  both sides, lifted him off the ground and carried him into the paddy  field. That is where he hid the night and survived.“My civilization is lost. My lifetime of worshipping has gone in vain. I am a lost man and lost I will be,” he says.“Please save my future generation! Please!” <img src="http://adv.thejakartapost.com/www/delivery/lg.php?bannerid=61&campaignid=7&zoneid=3&loc=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thejakartapost.com%2Fnews%2F2012%2F10%2F02%2Fsave-my-future-generation-appeals-buddhist-leader-bangladesh.html&cb=d2bfac2aa5" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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