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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netlife007" data-source="post: 19624612" data-attributes="member: 79514">Buddhists must not take part in petitions to remove the historical place of Temple ElephantOf late foreign-funded petitions are seen highlighting cruelty against elephants in temples. These same petitions omit to lobby against ritual animal sacrifice or slaughter of animals nor do they wish to have any role in passing legislation on the Animal Welfare Bill. The hue and cry over injury to elephants omitting similar passionate appeals against killing of animals as a sacrifice is rather strange. When attempts are now afoot to gag Buddhist priests while heads of other religions have openly had ties with terror entities, it should make Buddhists to wonder whether highlighting of elephants is an insidious plan to take away temple elephants thereby removing a key feature that is part of the pomp and pageanty of Buddhist festivals/perahera. Buddhists must refuse to take part in any such petitions. The Kandy Perahera that used over 100 elephants since ancient times is now facing dangers of having the elephant omitted from a festival that is over 220 years.Sri Lanka was known as the “Abaya Dana’. Killing meat was forbidden by the Kings. All that changed with the arrival of colonial invaders. Unlike the Judeo-Christian tradition, Buddhism affirms the right to life of all living beings. According to Buddhism, the world is not a creation specifically for the benefit and pleasure of human beings. Animals too have rights. Even animals can be born as humans according to their karma. In Buddhism the most fundamental guideline for conduct is ahimsa-the prohibition against the bringing of harm and/or death to any living being.</blockquote>

Verification: Dawasata paya keeyak thibeda?

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