Original author Ohn Kyaw Myint and Translated by Dr San Oo Aung in Burma Digest

Buddha’s teaching to Myanmar Military Generals to respect and Maintain the PLACES of WORSHIPS of other religions

Sorry that original Burmese version in Burma Digest was lost.

Before reading my old ENGLISH VERSION, may I present the GIST IN BURMESE from Burmese Wikipedia.

‘အပရိဟာနိယတရား’ မင်းတို့အတွက် မဆုတ်ယုတ်ကြောင်း ၇-ပါး။

• (၁) ညီညွတ်စွာ မပြတ်စည်းဝေးတိုင်ပင်ခြင်း။
• (၂) အစည်းအဝေးသို့ တစုတရုံးတည်း အညီအညွတ် တက်ရောက်၍ မင်းတို့ ပြုဘွယ်ကိစ္စကို ညီညွတ်စွာပြုကြပြီးကာ တစုတရုံးတည်း ညီညွတ်စွာ ပြန်ကြခြင်း၊
• (၃) ရှေးမင်းကောင်းတို့ ပညတ်ချက် ဥပဒေသများကို အစဉ်လိုက်နာခြင်း၊ မဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း၊ အသစ်ပညတ်ချက်မထုတ်ခြင်း။
• (၄) အသက်ကြီးသော မင်းတို့ကို ရိုသေလေးမြတ်စွာ ပူဇော်ခြင်း၊ ၎င်းတို့၏ ဆုံးမချက်ကို နာယူခြင်း။
• (၅) အမျိုးသမီးကြီးငယ်တို့ကို နိုင်ထက်ကလူ အတင်းဆွဲယူ၍ အိမ်ထောင်မပြုခြင်း
• (၆) မြို့တွင်း မြို့ပြင်ရှိ နတ်ကွန်းစေတီတို့ကို ရိုသေလေးမြတ်စွာ ပူဇော်ခြင်း၊ ရှေးထုံးစံနှင့်အညီ (ဝါ) တရားနှင့်အညီ ဗလိနတ်စာပေးခြင်း။ ။
• (၇) တိုင်းပြည်သို့ မရောက်လာကုန်သေးသော ရဟန္တာ အသျှင်မြတ်တို့ကို ကြွလာစေခြင်း၊ ကြွလာပြီးသော ရဟန္တာအသျှင်တို့ကို ချမ်းသာစွာ နေထိုင်စေခြင်း၊ တရားနှင့်အညီ စောင့်ရှောက်ပေးခြင်း။

No. 6. Nat Sin, Nat Kun Nat Saedi are NOT Buddhist but Buddha TAUGHT to maintain and let people to worship.

At that time No Churches, Synagogues and Masjids yet, IF Buddha were alive today he would definitely mention them..

(In Islam also PLACES of Worships of others are prohibited from destroying even during wars)

Myanmars could also watch and listen to my Youtube video about မအလ စကစနှင့် ဗခမကသန်းရွှေတို့အတွက် ဗုဒ္ဓ ၏ မဟာပရိနိဗ္ဗာနသုတ်တော်မှ အပရိဟာနိယ တရားတော် here @

Now continue to read my article…

Are you smiling with a smirk after reading my heading? Myanmar and SPDC Junta could not be present during Lord Buddha’s period. I know that you think we are just bluffing and using religion to attack blindly our political opponents. Do not misunderstand or misinterpret me or give a prejudgment before finishing this article.  Once you finished reading, consider the current political scenario in present Myanmar according to Buddha’s teachings. Then only you will understand the truth and wisdom of our religious teachings.

There is a saying, “Eyes do not see; only the brain sees”. Yes if you do not look and think, you could easily miss the truth. If we observe with care only, we could understand and see the truth and essence of our religion.

During the time of Lord Buddha, there was a prosperous and busy country called ‘Wai Thar Li’ or Vesali. (Please allow me to use these modern, Burmanized, easily recognizable words instead of real words in Pali or real names in India e.g. Vesali. Please kindly allow me to continue using these words in this whole article)

(You may be familiar with the artist, Wai Thar Li Maung Phone or bird, Wai Thar Li Crane)

Lord Buddha had even praised the beauty of that Wai Thar Li country in the ‘Maha Pari Nibbana Thoke,’

“Dear son Ananda, that Wai Thar Li country is very beautiful. The worshipping places around that Wai Thar Li are also very pleasant.”

(Maybe the people from Wai Thar Li had even composed the songs, “Our country is the best country to live in the world”…similar to the currently popular songs broadcast from Myanmar Broadcasting Service, “our country is the worse country so we all wish to die- – -“)

We wonder why Than Shwe was not interested to build the new capital based on that Wai Thar Li. What you call? Yes, why he had chosen that Kyat Pyae (meaning Ghost run or Run because of difficulties) or Kyet Pyae (Chicken Run) area to be named as ‘Nay Pyi Daw’?

• Why never dare to give the beautiful name as Wai Thar Li?
• Why scared? Is he afraid that his town is not worthy of that name and he would be in trouble or be cursed if he chose that noble name?
• Or is he has given the name ‘Nay Pyi Daw’ based from his step father Nay Win’s name? Let it be. I do not wish to elaborate further. I lost the track of my precious relagious conversation because of the distraction by this war criminal.

Let’s go back to our religious story. One day, Lord Buddha visited Wai Thar Li and stayed at the ‘Amva Pali’ mango garden. Once heard that news, ‘Lizza Wee’ princes wore their best clothing to visit and pay respect to Lord Buddha.

(They were not like SPDC Generals, who wore Military Uniforms with golden badges adding flowers and white cloth sling across the shoulders but carry the pistols at the loin to show off. A visit to the shrine or pagoda with the visible pistol is meant for what?

1. To threaten God? Or-
2. To show off the power? Or-
3. To threaten the Abbots so that they dare not show any disrespect to them (generals)?

Anyway, even if they are paranoid and thought that they are surrounded by enemies, no need to carry the pistols obviously or openly. They could more discreetly carry their pistols hidden in the pockets or under the armpit. When I carried my pistol I never show off but secretly only.  The SPDC Generals with pistols attached to leather belts are reminiscent of Fascist Japanese Captains or behaving like American cowboys.

Even Iraq’s ex-Dictator Saddam Hussein ordered his soldiers not to wear uniforms in the public. He said that it could be seen as threatening the people and could cause misunderstanding on the government. People could think there is no peace and order.)

The unity of those well dressed Princes even attracted the attention of Lord Buddha and told his monks,

“Dear sons, look at those ‘Lizza Wee’ people. They even resemble the angels from the ‘Tar Wa Rein Tar’ paradise.”

If Lord Buddha had seen those SPDC Generals in uniforms with dangling pistols, he would even comment,

“Dear sons, look at those SPDC people. They even resemble the butchers, hunters and assassins.”

Wai Thar Li country was so united, the king and his subjects, helping each other and staying as real brothers. Therefore, the country progressed and was prosperous. Naturally, the neighbours became jealous and attacked them but they all were defeated by the unified forces of Wai Thar Li.

Once, ‘King Azar Da That’ sent the minister ‘Mar Gada’ to the Lord Buddha to ask opinion whether to attack Wai Thar Li or not. Although humanly problems are not his concern, Lord Buddha seen the detriment or dangers of the plan and instead of answering directly, asked the brother ‘Ananda’ the following seven questions.

Those seven great questions and answers became famous as the ‘A Pari Har Niya’ meaning the ‘Seven precepts which could never lead to failures’ and later popularly known and accepted as the ‘Seven precepts for the Kings and Rulers’.

Brother ‘Ananda’ answered Lord Buddha’s questions:

“Dear Lord, those ‘Wazzi’ kings from Wai Thar Li are:_

1. They are united and always have meetings, discussions and conferences.
   • the SPDC Generals never have the meeting with the people and opposition.
   • They even never discuss amongst each other but just obey the orders of Senior General Than Shwe.
   • From the Appointments and Promotions in the Government to construction and shifting of the new capital, all are done under the foolish orders of His Majesty.
   • Even the TV programmes were abruptly stopped under his odd and whimsy orders.
   • SPDC Generals are also divided and have a deep-seated hatred amongst themselves.

So the precept Number one is out of question for them.)

1. They used to go to the meetings together and finished together.
   • the SPDC Generals never used to go to the meetings together.
   • Dare not have a meeting with the people or the opposition.
   • The sham National Convention is also a staged show to deceive the people and the whole world.
   • Even that sham National Convention was used to convene twice a year only for the happy New Year and farewell conference at the year-end.
   • This procrastination exercise of convening a sham National Convention breaks the world record by starting in 1993 and is not finished even after 13 long years.
   • Selected obedient persons only are allowed there and
   • most of the political parties, civil societies and Ethnic Minorities are conspicuously absent.
   • Those attended are also kept like under the house arrest.
   • Even NLD and Ethnic Minorities could not attend together means that

The precept Number 2 is out of question for them.)

1. Old tested Customs, Laws, Rules and Regulations are not abolish or abandoned but kept and obeyed.

            (The SPDC Generals discarded – – –

1. • all the old Laws,
   • Rules,
   • Regulations,
   • 1947 Constitution and
   • even their old Military (under Nae Win) made laws, orders and constitution were all demolished.
   • They made their own orders, rules and regulations to serve their selfish purpose.
   • Even the religious rules are changed.

          So the precept Number 3 is out of question for them.)

1. Respectable persons are duly honoured , respected and obeyed.

(The SPDC Generals

1. • would look in the mirrors in search for the respectable persons.
   • Megalomaniac and power crazy generals look down on Abbots, Priests, monks, wise-learned persons, academicians, professionals and older generations.
   • The SPDC Generals thought that those ignorant stupid people are unintelligent fools that have to obey all their orders.
   • They know the best, they are the wisest, most learned persons and so all the people, from old to young, Abbots to students and soldiers (except their wives and children) must obey them blindly as they were told or ordered.
   • Generals have the highest IQs, because of that they could even rule the country for many decades (even without using their heads).
   • Even the religion was used to intoxicate the people to smoothen their Military rule.

             So the precept Number 4 is out of question for them.)

1. They never molest or rape the women.

(For the SPDC Generals

1. • women are for entertainment only
   • women are sex slaves for the Myanma Tatmadaw
   • Ethnic Minority girls are regularly raped by SPDC soldiers under the orders from above,
   • to eradicate their Ethnic Minority races and so amounting to committing the attempted genocide.

            So the precept Number 5 is also out of question for them.)

1. Peoples worshipping places are duly took care of, respected and always regularly paid homage.

            (The SPDC Generals usually- – –

1. • destroy and loot the valuables from the pagodas under the disguise of repair or maintenances. Sometimes the jewelry were replaced with fakes.
   • Disobedient Abbots and Monks were disrobed, removed from monasteries and jailed.
   • Century old Rice Donation and Religious organizations are banned.
   • Revered ‘Ma Naw’ pillars from Kachin State were destroyed.
   • Venerated Stone Inscriptions in Chin state were also destroyed.
   • Islamic Mosques and religious schools were systematically destroyed,
   • old or ruined ones were not allowed to renovate.
   • New Mosques are not allowed to built.
   • Christian Churches were destroyed and
   • practice forced conversions.

          So the precept Number 6 is also out of question for them.)

1. Excellent explanatory Government Servants and those who had sacrificed for the country are well rewarded.

          (For the SPDC Generals – – –

1. • they wrongly that think are the only ones sacrificing and working for the country.
   • They show ingratitude to the people and the country.
   • They wrongly think that their Myanmar Tatmadaw or military is the guardian parents of the people.
   • The people and country must thank them for protecting them.
   • They even forgot their founding father, General Aung San and the Martyrs who sacrificed their lives for Burma.
   • People who salute the photographs of General Aung San and those attended or celebrate the Martyrs’ days were even arrested and jailed.
   • Model and outstanding Persons who were rewarded by the previous governments but disagree or fail to support them were stripped off their rewards.
   • Even those rewards and badges honoured by the foreign governments were forced to hand over to them, with the lame excuse of as if to display in the museums.

            For those ungrateful SPDC Generals the precept Number 7 is also out of question for

             them.)

Then Lord Buddha replied,

“Dear son Ananda, if those ‘Lizza Wee Kings’ are observing the ‘A Pari Har Niya’, meaning the ‘Seven precepts which could never lead to failures’; they could not be defeated and they would never lead to failures but progress only.” These are later famous as the ‘Seven precepts for the Kings and Rulers’ to observe.

‘Mar Gada’ Minister reported all he seen and heard to the ‘King Azar Da That’. The King realized his wrong intention, decreed the ‘A Pari Har Niya’ or the ‘Seven precepts for the Kings and Rulers’ as his way of governing the country. Since then, this ‘A Pari Har Niya’ became famous.

For the SPDC Junta who are against the ‘A Pari Har Niya’, Lord Buddha would likely to comment:

“Dear son Ananda, if those SPDC Generals are not observing the ‘A Pari Har Niya’, meaning the ‘Seven precepts which could never lead to failures’; or the ‘Seven precepts for the Kings and Rulers’ they could be easily defeated and they would never lead to progress but failures only”

We believe that SPDC had already unwittingly pushed the button of self-destruction once they had committed the sins of going against Lord Buddha’s teachings.

Now I hope, you could understand my remarks or heading of my article, “SPDC Junta Mentioned in Buddha’s Teachings”.

According to the Burmese beliefs there are  “Five types of enemies”: _

• Water- flooding, drowning, storms etc
• Fire
• King or Government
• Thief
• The person who hate you

                     I hereby hope and pray that all the people of Burma/Myanmar could be free from the worse enemy from the “Five types of enemies”, the SPDC Government in a very near future.