Sant Shri Asaram Bapu Ji Amritvani – 7th November 2014 – Video
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Sant Shri Asaram Bapu Ji Amritvani - 7th November 2014
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RM1 million fund started to rescue Ashram
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College co-founder offers to start a RM1 million rolling fund to save the historical building.
KUALA LUMPUR: Brickfields Asia College co-founder Raja Singham plans to save and restore the century-old Vivekananda Ashram in Brickfields, which is under threat from development, back to its glory days.
The ashram has been earmarked for redevelopment as a 23-storey residential tower with 264 units and an eight-storey car park.
Although the Vivekananda board of trustees had assured the public that the buildings 110-year-old structure along with the bronze statue of Swami Vivekananda would be preserved, news of the proposed development invited a backlash from MIC, Hindraf, PKR and Gerakan.
The Edge Financial Daily reported that Raja had offered financial help upon hearing that the ashram management had cited financial problems as the reason for redeveloping the land.
I will start the ball rolling with a RM1 million fund and hopefully it will attract other corporate sponsors. But the trustees must accept this first, he said explaining that he was not trying to pick a fight with the trustees but was trying to help them.
The trust owns and manages four schools SJK (T) Vivekananda, Brickfields, both the Vivekananda primary and secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur and SJK (T) Thamboosamy Pillai, Sentul and is focused on developing the youth and education.
Raja was eager to save the ashram which he said was an education centre in its heyday and the early 1990s where various dance and vocal music classes, yoga lessons and spiritual activities were organised.
Swami Vivekananda, of which the ashram is named after was a philosopher who inspired his followers to build the ashram in Brickfields.
The ashram started off as a reading group and opened its first Tamil school in 1914, followed by the countrys first Tamil kindergarten in the 1920s and continues to be recognised as a place of learning.
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New book explores the nexus of Buddhism and law
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A rapidly growing field of study the influence of Buddhist thought on legal systems worldwide has its first book-length overview with a new compilation conceived by a UB Law School faculty member who is a pioneer in the field.
Buddhism and Law: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press) was co-edited by UB Law Professor Rebecca R. French and Mark A. Nathan, an assistant professor in UBs history department and its Asian Studies Program. Interdisciplinary in nature and broad in scope, it challenges the idea that Buddhism is an apolitical religion without implications for law. In fact, the authors argue, Buddhism provided the architecture for some legal ideologies and secular law codes, and added a new layer of complexity to existing legal systems elsewhere.
There are almost no books on Buddhist legal systems, says French, who wrote one herself in 2002 with The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet (Snow Lion Publications). The study of Buddhism itself is pretty much brand new. Buddhist studies departments have existed in universities only in the last half century, and there has been serious study only in the past 20 to 30 years. But scholars are now working on the Vinaya and its influence on secular law.
The Vinaya is the law code, written for the followers of the Buddha, that makes up the first one-third of the Buddhist canon. French says dabblers in the religion, especially the reductionist, commodified version familiar to many Americans, might be surprised at the vehemence even the harshness of the Buddha's words.
The Vinaya is a series of encounters between the Buddha and a person who has committed some offense, she says. They have a conversation, they talk almost Socratically, then he states what the person has done wrong and what the punishment is.
The book, almost a decade in the making, grows partly from a couple of conferences organized by French and Law School Professor David M. Engel, who has longtime ties to Thailand. Its organized geographically, rather than thematically, with contributors taking up topics from India, where the religious tradition began; South and Southeast Asia, including Sri Lanka; East Asia, including China, Japan and Korea; and North Asia and the Himalayas region. French contributed one chapter, on Buddhism and law in Tibet.
Theres a lot of diversity in how this plays out, French says. Many people thought Buddhism was so diverse and so scattered that there wouldnt be central ideas. The variety has been interpreted as a lack of centralization, as a lack of coherence and as a lack of true law. I would argue that we just need to start looking. The relationship between Buddhism and law is completely different in different regions.
For example, she says, in Burma (now Myanmar), scholars have shown that law codes were built from scratch based on Buddhist teachings. Contrast that with the situation in China, where, French says, Buddhism arrived after the nation already had a strongly established legal system.
As a field of study, Buddhism and law is fraught with complexities, from the voluminous extant writings on the Buddhas teachings, to the problems of translating from the languages of heavily Buddhist countries and their long and complicated histories.
But, says French, most people are thinking about the ethical and foundational issues of legal systems how a culture gained those things and what they meant. The Judeo-Christian foundations of our own legal system are extremely important. Similarly, the Islamic influence on the legal system is very important in Islamic countries. Why wouldnt we want to know about the basic religious foundations of an enormous segment of the world?
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