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Tag: Burma (Myanmar)

A Fact-Finding Commission — Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar

Here is the press release for an important initiative that came out of our INEB meeting in Malaysia two weeks ago.  The meeting itself had an ongoing focus on interfaith relations, particularly between Buddhists and Muslims in South and Southeast
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Burma Unbound?

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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; by non-hatred only is hatred appeased.  This is an unending truth.

Dhammapada, 5

Religious and ethnic confrontation in Burma challenge cherished ideas of Buddhism and religious tolerance. This week, … Read more

Updates from Spring 2012

SPRING UPDATE

Spring has arrived in Berkeley, and I suppose, in various other parts of the world. All is growing here. The wisteria surrounding our front windows and door has already blossomed and turned.

BURMA

The flowering of civil society … Read more

Good Day Sunshine — Elections in Burma

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 1 April 2012

The good news from Burma keeps coming in after regional by-elections there in 45 districts. It is not an April Fools joke.  According to the Mizzima news service, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy looks … Read more

Burma’s Opening Door

This piece can also be found on Shambhala SunSpace.

The news from Burma this week is encouraging.  The doors of freedom continue to open.  On January 12, the government of Myanmar and ethnic rebels of the Karen National Union signed

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The Last of the Saffron Monks

Here is a PDF of a wonderful article by Susie Poppick about our good friends in Brooklyn, the exiled Saffron Revolution monks of the All Burma Monks’ Alliance. This was published in the January 2011 issue of First Things, … Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi is free — but what happens now?

“Whatever they do to me, that’s between them and me; I can take it. What’s more important is what they are doing to the country.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, 1994

The images of Aung San Suu Kyi greeting thousands of … Read more

Foundation for the People of Burma Staff Training (January 2009)

FPB Staff Training January 2009
Foundation for the People of Burma
Burmese Staff Training
16-22 January 2009
near Bago, Myanmar

Report by Alan Senauke

Summary

With help from the San Francisco office and their people in Yangon, I led a … Read more

Leading Saffron Revolution monk’s memoir

Article by U Pyinya Zawta, first published in Mizzima. U Pyinya Zawta spent almost 11 years in prison. He is now living in exile.

Burmese monks are known to have played an important role in their nation’s politics throughout its … Read more

Burma Comments — 20 years after the 8-8-88 Uprisings

The following address was given by Alan Senauke on 8.8.08 in Union Square, San Francisco — twenty years after Burma’s 8888 Uprising and one year after the Saffron Revolution.

From what I hear this is a highly auspicious date for … Read more