East Asia 2012 - A Conversation with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Venerable Ashin Virathus’ thoughts about U Gambira

The famous monk Ashin Virathu, who was released from prison in Mandalay in January 2012 after spending nine years in prison, recently published an article with his thoughts about Ashin Gambira with whom he made contact during their time together at Obu prison.

“လူပ်ံေတာ္မ်ားကို ႀကဳိဆိုၾက” အပိုင္း(၁)

                   ဝီရသူ(မစိုးရိမ္)
          စာေရးသူ လူ႔ျပည္ျပန္ေရာက္မွ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ ရဟန္းပ်ဳိမ်ား လူပ်ံေတာ္ဘဝသို႔ ကူးေျပာင္းသြားသည္မွာ ႏွစ္ပါးပင္ ရွိေလၿပီ။ ႏွစ္ပါစလုံး ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားသူမ်ားပင္ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။ တစ္ပါးက ႏိုင္ငံေရးနယ္ပယ္မွာ ထင္ရွားသူျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ က်န္တစ္ပါး မွာ သာသနာေလာက၌ ထင္ရွားသူ ျဖစ္ေလသည္။ ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ ကမၻာေက်ာ္ ဆရာေတာ္ေလးမ်ား ျဖစ္ၾက၏။
          တစ္ပါးကား- ဦးဂမၻီရ ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ တစ္ပါးမွာ ဦးဣႏၵာစရိယာဘိဝံသ(မစိုးရိမ္စာသင္သား) ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

                                     “ေဘာလုံးပဲြတရားႏွင့္ ဂမၻီရပ်ားရည္”
          ဦးဂမၻီရႏွင့္ လူခ်င္းမေတြ႕ဆုံးဖူးေသာ္လည္း အိုးဘိုမွာေနရစဥ္တြင္ အဆက္အသြယ္ရွိခဲ့ေပသည္။ မိမိက ေရွးဦးစြာ ေရာက္ႏွင့္ေနေသာ ေက်ာင္းသားေဟာင္းႀကီး ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ သတင္းၾကားသည္ႏွင့္ လွမ္း၍ဆက္သြယ္ကာ မိတ္ဆက္စာေပး၍ အားေပးစကား ေျပာခဲ့ဖူး၏။ အေၾကာ္အေလွာ္မ်ားလည္း လွဴလုိက္ပါ၏။
          ဦးဂမၻီရထံမွ ျပန္စာရခဲ့ပါ၏။ ၂၀၀၂-အင္းစိန္ရြာမမွာ “အၿမဲ႐ႈံးေနေသာ ေဘာလုံးပြဲ” ေဟာစဥ္က သူဟာအႀကီးတန္း သင္တန္းသားအျဖစ္ တရားနာခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း၊ ဓာတ္ပုံကင္မရာျဖင့္ မွတ္တမ္းတင္သည့္ ဦးဇင္းတစ္ပါးမွာ သူသာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ပါဝင္ေလ၏။

The Best Friend Library: Education is the key to Freedom

When you pass through Mae Sots’ busy market with all it’s exotic smells and views, you arrive at a four storey building in Bua Khun Road with a banner over the entrance door saying “The Best Friend Library Free Education Center”. Founded by one of the key figures in Burma’s 2007 uprising, this library has become a safe haven for migrants and refugees from Burma and a meeting place for interested people from all over the world.

Vesak celebration in Germany

Buddha Day was celebrated on the 13^th of May 2012 in Frankfurt by the Burmese Buddhist temple.

About 100 people from different parts of Germany were present at the ceremony. First they recited Metta Bhavana altogether in unison. After that, people offered lunch, consisting of traditional Burmese food, to the present monks. Among them U Zawana, Ashin Kovida and others.