UN stage stage so relevant to Modern Dhamma words listening Goose pimples become active. Let me appeal, and give ear to me carefully.
New York was satisfied are known around the world, and between metaphysical sweater US abbot monk Bodhi world and the United Nations to be on the order of 2017 (11) falls on May Kason Vesak Day Dhamma gregarious end design. Great Master views are very modern too.
They make my speech.
Myanmar monks to include a role on the world stage and dignity must try double double take. (20) years ago, so many of the World Buddhist ceremony monks were invited to take up part of the period of the areas.
Now the monks in their native Buddhist monk local people are responsible for themselves and take on the world stage have been found satisfactory. This is the Buddhism in the West, on the average, have a sense of something other developed Happily.
The Burmese are starting in the world stage left began to fadeSad to see.
Ahmadena Dhapadehta
ကုလသမဂၢစင္ျမင့္ေပၚမွာ ေျပာသြားတဲ့ဓမၼစကားေတြဟာ
ေခတ္အခါနဲ႔ဆီေလွ်ာ္လြန္းလို႔ နာေထာင္ရင္း ၾကက္သီးေတြထထလာတယ္။
ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာေလးနာယူေပးၾကပါလို႔ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံပါရေစ။
ေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕သား ပရိယတ္ပဋိပတ္တတ္ကၽြမ္းက်င္ေသာ ေလာကီေလာကုတၱရာဆြယ္စံုရေသာ အေမရိကန္ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီး ဘိကၡဳေဗာဓိကိုယ္တိုင္ ကမၻာ ့ကုလသမဂၢစင္ျမင့္ေပၚမွာ မိန္႔ၾကားေဟာျပေနေသာ ၂၀၁၇ ေမလ (၁၁)ရက္ေန႔ကက်ေရာက္ေသာ ကဆုန္လျပည့္ ဗုဒၶေန႔ ဓမၼသဘင္မွာ ေဟာၾကားထားတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးရဲ႕ အျမင္ေတြဟာ အလြန္ေခတ္မီလြန္းေနပါတယ္။
ေသခ်ာနာယူၾက။
ျမန္မာဗုဒၶဘာသာရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားရဲ႕ က႑ဟာ ကမၻာစင္ျမင့္ေပၚမွာ သိကၡာရွိစြာ ပါဝင္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ႏွစ္ဆႏွစ္ျပန္ႏွစ္ထပ္ႀကိဳးစားရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သတိျပဳသင့္လွေပၿပီ။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာအႏွစ္ (၂၀) ေလာက္အထိ ကမၻာ ့ဗုဒၶဘာသာအခန္းအနားေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကို ျမန္မာသံဃာေတာ္မ်ားအား အေရးတယူပင့္ဖိတ္ပါဝင္ေစခဲ့ေသာကာလမ်ားရွိခဲ့ေပ၏။
ယခုအခါ၌ကား သူတို႔ native Buddhist monk ေဒသခံလူမ်ဳိးရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားကိုယ္တိုင္ ကမၻာစင္ျမင့္ေပၚ၌ ေနရာယူတာဝန္ယူလာေနၾကသည္ကို အားရစရာေတြ႕လာရေပၿပီ။ ဤသည္ကားဗုဒၶဘာသာသည္ အေနာက္ကမၻာ၌ တစ္ေန႔တျခားတိုးတက္ဖြ႕ံၿဖိဳးလာေနသည္ကို ဝမ္းသာစရာေတြ႕ေနရေပၿပီ။ မိမိတို႔ေရႊျမန္မာမ်ားကား တစတစကမၻာ ့စင္ျမင့္၌ေမွးမွိန္စျပဳလာေနသည္ကိုလည္း
ဝမ္းနည္းစရာေတြ႕ျမင္ေနရေပၿပီ။
အပၸမာေဒန သမၸာေဒထ။
ေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕သား ပရိယတ္ပဋိပတ္တတ္ကၽြမ္းက်င္ေသာ ေလာကီေလာကုတၱရာဆြယ္စံုရေသာ အေမရိကန္ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီး ဘိကၡဳေဗာဓိကိုယ္တိုင္ ကမၻာ ့ကုလသမဂၢစင္ျမင့္ေပၚမွာ မိန္႔ၾကားေဟာျပေနေသာ ၂၀၁၇ ေမလ (၁၁)ရက္ေန႔ကက်ေရာက္ေသာ ကဆုန္လျပည့္ ဗုဒၶေန႔ ဓမၼသဘင္မွာ ေဟာၾကားထားတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးရဲ႕ အျမင္ေတြဟာ အလြန္ေခတ္မီလြန္းေနပါတယ္။
ေသခ်ာနာယူၾက။
ျမန္မာဗုဒၶဘာသာရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားရဲ႕ က႑ဟာ ကမၻာစင္ျမင့္ေပၚမွာ သိကၡာရွိစြာ ပါဝင္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ႏွစ္ဆႏွစ္ျပန္ႏွစ္ထပ္ႀကိဳးစားရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သတိျပဳသင့္လွေပၿပီ။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာအႏွစ္ (၂၀) ေလာက္အထိ ကမၻာ ့ဗုဒၶဘာသာအခန္းအနားေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကို ျမန္မာသံဃာေတာ္မ်ားအား အေရးတယူပင့္ဖိတ္ပါဝင္ေစခဲ့ေသာကာလမ်ားရွိခဲ့ေပ၏။
ယခုအခါ၌ကား သူတို႔ native Buddhist monk ေဒသခံလူမ်ဳိးရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားကိုယ္တိုင္ ကမၻာစင္ျမင့္ေပၚ၌ ေနရာယူတာဝန္ယူလာေနၾကသည္ကို အားရစရာေတြ႕လာရေပၿပီ။ ဤသည္ကားဗုဒၶဘာသာသည္ အေနာက္ကမၻာ၌ တစ္ေန႔တျခားတိုးတက္ဖြ႕ံၿဖိဳးလာေနသည္ကို ဝမ္းသာစရာေတြ႕ေနရေပၿပီ။ မိမိတို႔ေရႊျမန္မာမ်ားကား တစတစကမၻာ ့စင္ျမင့္၌ေမွးမွိန္စျပဳလာေနသည္ကိုလည္း
ဝမ္းနည္းစရာေတြ႕ျမင္ေနရေပၿပီ။
အပၸမာေဒန သမၸာေဒထ။
Day of Vesak celebrated at the UN Headquarters in New York
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The Day of Vesak was celebrated at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10th
May 2017 in accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution 54/115
recognizing the day of Vesak internationally as the most significant day
for the Buddhists all over the world. The Permanent Mission of Sri
Lanka to the United Nations in New York took the lead in organizing this
year’s Day of Vesak at the United Nations along with the Permanent
Mission of Thailand, and the Missions of the states that co-sponsored
the resolution in 2000.
The celebrations commenced on the morning of 10th May with a mid-day dana offered to 53 Buddhist monks representing Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia and Japan, at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Rohan Perera, his Thai counterpart Ambassador Virachai Plasai, and Permanent Representatives of Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Cambodia, and Laos along with senior diplomats from Buddhist countries attended the ceremony and offered dana to the Maha Sangha. A large number of lay persons, including the staff of the co-organizing Permanent Missions were also present. Ven. Hungampola Sirirathana Thero, Chief Incumbent of New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Ven. Heenbunne Kondanna Thero, Chief Incumbent of the Staten Island Buddhist Vihara in New York conducted the religious ceremony.
Proclamations issued by the Governor of New York State Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Day of Vesak were read out by their representatives at the Dana ceremony.
A
solemn event to mark the Day of Vesak, co-chaired by Ambassador Rohan
Perera, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and
Ambassador Virachai Plasai, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
Thailand to the United Nations was held in the evening of 10th May from 6.30 to 8.45 p.m. at the United Nations General Assembly hall. Ambassador Perera conducted the meeting.
A
large number of Buddhist monks representing many countries, Vice
President of the General Assembly Ambassador Durga Prasad Bhattarai of
Nepal, Permanent Representatives of Member States, senior diplomats,
senior UN officials, staff of the Permanent Missions and the UN
Secretariat, and Buddhists from various countries attended this solemn
event.
The renowned American Buddhist monk Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, delivered a scholarly sermon, which was well received by those who were present.
As
an interlude, a group of Sri Lankan students from the Tri-State area
performed a musical recital of the famous song with a Buddhist theme Danno Budunge. This musical recital was much appreciated by the attendees.
Permanent Representatives of Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar and Viet Nam addressed the General Assembly reflecting on the significance of the Day of Vesak. Bhutan, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore and the Russian Federation spoke at either Chargé d’Affaires or Deputy Permanent Representative level. Each statement was accompanied by a slide show of photographs depicting how the Day of Vesak is celebrated in their respective countries.
Addressing
the General Assembly, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the
United Nations and co-chair of the event to mark the Vesak Day at the
United Nations Headquarters, Ambassador Rohan Perera observed that that
the message of peace and compassion, taught by the Lord Buddha is valid
and relevant in the present day world, more than ever as the Buddha’s
teachings provide an ideal framework to view and analyse the reality of
the world, and to find solutions to problems by looking at that reality
with a right view.
Stressing the importance of right view or Samma Ditti, he added that in dealings at the United Nations, and in politics among nations in the present day, right view is a must. Ambassador Perera concluded that if countries are to apply the Buddha’s teachings on the right view to their dealings, root causes of mutual distrust, hatred, and tensions could be eliminated, saving millions of lives and easing human suffering.
His Excellency Mr. Durga Prasad Bhattarai, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations and Vice President of the General Assembly, representing the President of the General Assembly, It is a happy coincidence that you represent the country where the birthplace of Prince Siddhartha, Lumbini, is located.
Distinguished Co-Chair, His Excellency Mr. Virachai Plasai, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United Nations,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is indeed a great honour and privilege for me to extend a warm welcome to you all and to address you on this very auspicious occasion marking the thrice blessed Day of Vesak. Today we commemorate the birth, the enlightenment and the Mahaparinirvana of the Lord Buddha.
As we celebrate the Day of Vesak today, I strongly believe that the message of peace and compassion, taught by the Buddha is valid and relevant in the present day world, more than ever. The Dhamma or the doctrine of this great teacher has shown, for more than two millennia, the path to illumination to mankind, and continues to ease the suffering of millions with its universal virtues.
Let us reflect on this occasion, why are the Buddha’s teachings relevant to today’s world more than ever?
The Buddha’s teachings are relevant because they provide us an ideal framework to view and analyse the reality of the world we live in, and to find solutions to our problems by looking at that reality with a right view.
At the United Nations, our efforts are aimed at alleviating human suffering by maintaining world peace, achieving sustainable development, safeguarding human rights and protecting the environment, among others. Buddhist teachings are essentially consonant with these efforts.
The grim reality is that, despite our vehement efforts, our contemporary world has become an increasingly more dangerous place. The world continues to be plagued by violent conflicts, poverty, hunger, and disease.
In these troubled times, humanity is confronted by mutual distrust, increasing isolationism, hatred and violence. Rising tensions and the threat of terrorism and extremism across the globe are threating the security of humankind and its hope for peace.
This situation can be best expounded by the first of the four noble truths taught by the Buddha, that is, the truth of the reality of Dukkha or suffering as part of conditioned existence of mankind. The Buddha’s doctrine helps us to analyse this reality and find the root causes of many problems that the world is facing today.
If we are to delve into the root causes of violent conflicts, rising tensions, mutual distrust and hatred, we could see that they are being created by the actions spurred by wrong view and clouded judgement. We often see that wrong views and clouded judgement are permeating not only the current global political order but also within States themselves, creating tensions and violent conflicts.
As Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, who has honoured us with his presence at this event today, once wrote: “In the present-day world, far more than in the ancient Ganges Valley, wrong views have gained widespread currency and assumed more baneful forms than earlier epochs ever could have been imagined.”
No need to say that, in a world where there are military capabilities which could have unimaginable consequences for the very existence of humanity, one wrong view or one wrong decision clouded by prejudice, anger or ignorance would be catastrophic.
The Buddha’s teachings provide us with the remedy for this perilous condition. He propounded Right View or Samma Ditti at the head of the noble eightfold path, the noble path that would lead one to awakening and enlightenment.
Right View is right understanding. It is the vision of the reality not clouded by avarice, wrath or ignorance. To quote Bhikkhu Bodhi again, “the right view is the chisel to be used to cut away the dross of wrong views and confused thoughts that impede the light of wisdom from illuminating our minds.”
In our dealings at the United Nations, and in politics among nations in the present day, right view is a must. If we are to apply the Buddha’s teachings on the right view to our dealings, root causes of mutual distrust, hatred, and tensions could be eliminated, saving millions of lives and easing human suffering.
As United Nations, this is the message that we must seek to propagate.
It has indeed been an honour for us to be a co-sponsor of this year’s Vesak Day celebrations at the United Nations. I thank my colleague His Excellency the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Thailand and the organizing committee for joining us in making this meritorious endeavor a success. I respectfully thank Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi for kindly agreeing to deliver a brief sermon at today’s event. I also thank the group of Sri Lankan children who are here to play a brief musical interlude.
Sabbe Satta Bhavantu Sukhitatta !
May all beings be happy and content!
The celebrations commenced on the morning of 10th May with a mid-day dana offered to 53 Buddhist monks representing Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia and Japan, at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Rohan Perera, his Thai counterpart Ambassador Virachai Plasai, and Permanent Representatives of Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Cambodia, and Laos along with senior diplomats from Buddhist countries attended the ceremony and offered dana to the Maha Sangha. A large number of lay persons, including the staff of the co-organizing Permanent Missions were also present. Ven. Hungampola Sirirathana Thero, Chief Incumbent of New Jersey Buddhist Vihara and Ven. Heenbunne Kondanna Thero, Chief Incumbent of the Staten Island Buddhist Vihara in New York conducted the religious ceremony.
Proclamations issued by the Governor of New York State Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Day of Vesak were read out by their representatives at the Dana ceremony.
Ambassador Perera chairing the solemn event to mark the Day of Vesak at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. Permanent Representative of Thailand, Ambassador Virachai Plasai (L) and Vice President of the General Assembly and Permanent Representative of Nepal, Ambassador Durga Prasad Bhattarai (R) are also in the picture.
Part of the Maha Sangha who attended the solemn event at the United Nations General Assembly Hall.
The renowned American Buddhist monk Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, delivered a scholarly sermon, which was well received by those who were present.
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi delivering the sermon.
Permanent Representatives of Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar and Viet Nam addressed the General Assembly reflecting on the significance of the Day of Vesak. Bhutan, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore and the Russian Federation spoke at either Chargé d’Affaires or Deputy Permanent Representative level. Each statement was accompanied by a slide show of photographs depicting how the Day of Vesak is celebrated in their respective countries.
A group of Sri Lankan students from the Tri-State area performing a musical recital of the song Danno Budunge.
Stressing the importance of right view or Samma Ditti, he added that in dealings at the United Nations, and in politics among nations in the present day, right view is a must. Ambassador Perera concluded that if countries are to apply the Buddha’s teachings on the right view to their dealings, root causes of mutual distrust, hatred, and tensions could be eliminated, saving millions of lives and easing human suffering.
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
New York
11th May 2017
Opening
Statement by H.E. Dr. Rohan Perera, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations on the occasion of the
celebration of the Day of Vesak at the United Nations
UN Headquarters, New York- 10th May 2017
The Most Venerable members of the Maha Sangha,His Excellency Mr. Durga Prasad Bhattarai, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations and Vice President of the General Assembly, representing the President of the General Assembly, It is a happy coincidence that you represent the country where the birthplace of Prince Siddhartha, Lumbini, is located.
Distinguished Co-Chair, His Excellency Mr. Virachai Plasai, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United Nations,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is indeed a great honour and privilege for me to extend a warm welcome to you all and to address you on this very auspicious occasion marking the thrice blessed Day of Vesak. Today we commemorate the birth, the enlightenment and the Mahaparinirvana of the Lord Buddha.
As we celebrate the Day of Vesak today, I strongly believe that the message of peace and compassion, taught by the Buddha is valid and relevant in the present day world, more than ever. The Dhamma or the doctrine of this great teacher has shown, for more than two millennia, the path to illumination to mankind, and continues to ease the suffering of millions with its universal virtues.
Let us reflect on this occasion, why are the Buddha’s teachings relevant to today’s world more than ever?
The Buddha’s teachings are relevant because they provide us an ideal framework to view and analyse the reality of the world we live in, and to find solutions to our problems by looking at that reality with a right view.
At the United Nations, our efforts are aimed at alleviating human suffering by maintaining world peace, achieving sustainable development, safeguarding human rights and protecting the environment, among others. Buddhist teachings are essentially consonant with these efforts.
The grim reality is that, despite our vehement efforts, our contemporary world has become an increasingly more dangerous place. The world continues to be plagued by violent conflicts, poverty, hunger, and disease.
In these troubled times, humanity is confronted by mutual distrust, increasing isolationism, hatred and violence. Rising tensions and the threat of terrorism and extremism across the globe are threating the security of humankind and its hope for peace.
This situation can be best expounded by the first of the four noble truths taught by the Buddha, that is, the truth of the reality of Dukkha or suffering as part of conditioned existence of mankind. The Buddha’s doctrine helps us to analyse this reality and find the root causes of many problems that the world is facing today.
If we are to delve into the root causes of violent conflicts, rising tensions, mutual distrust and hatred, we could see that they are being created by the actions spurred by wrong view and clouded judgement. We often see that wrong views and clouded judgement are permeating not only the current global political order but also within States themselves, creating tensions and violent conflicts.
As Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, who has honoured us with his presence at this event today, once wrote: “In the present-day world, far more than in the ancient Ganges Valley, wrong views have gained widespread currency and assumed more baneful forms than earlier epochs ever could have been imagined.”
No need to say that, in a world where there are military capabilities which could have unimaginable consequences for the very existence of humanity, one wrong view or one wrong decision clouded by prejudice, anger or ignorance would be catastrophic.
The Buddha’s teachings provide us with the remedy for this perilous condition. He propounded Right View or Samma Ditti at the head of the noble eightfold path, the noble path that would lead one to awakening and enlightenment.
Right View is right understanding. It is the vision of the reality not clouded by avarice, wrath or ignorance. To quote Bhikkhu Bodhi again, “the right view is the chisel to be used to cut away the dross of wrong views and confused thoughts that impede the light of wisdom from illuminating our minds.”
In our dealings at the United Nations, and in politics among nations in the present day, right view is a must. If we are to apply the Buddha’s teachings on the right view to our dealings, root causes of mutual distrust, hatred, and tensions could be eliminated, saving millions of lives and easing human suffering.
As United Nations, this is the message that we must seek to propagate.
It has indeed been an honour for us to be a co-sponsor of this year’s Vesak Day celebrations at the United Nations. I thank my colleague His Excellency the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Thailand and the organizing committee for joining us in making this meritorious endeavor a success. I respectfully thank Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi for kindly agreeing to deliver a brief sermon at today’s event. I also thank the group of Sri Lankan children who are here to play a brief musical interlude.
Sabbe Satta Bhavantu Sukhitatta !
May all beings be happy and content!
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