Silent Buddhists pray for peace as Nepal revels in blood

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	Silent Buddhists pray for peace as Nepal revels in blood

Gul Agha

10-22-2007 5:41 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/78fdab7b-9a12-421a-aaa6-673f3a5d4a76/28715AF1-BAE3-494B-91EB-6D5D065F7BE2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.indiblitz.com/index.php/2007/10/18/silent-buddhists-pray-for-peace-as-nepal-revels-in-blood/" href="http://www.indiblitz.com/index.php/2007/10/18/silent-buddhists-pray-for-peace-as-nepal-revels-in-blood/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.indiblitz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indiblitz.com/index.php/2007/10/18/silent-buddhists-pray-for-peace-as-nepal-revels-in-blood/"><P align="&#39justify&#39">Kathmandu, Oct 19 (IANS) Though a ceasefire between the government and the Maoist guerrillas has held for over a year now, yet Nepal is passing through one of its goriest periods with thousands of animals being sacrificed daily on the occasion of Dashain, the biggest Hindu festival in the country.</p> <P align="&#39justify&#39">On Friday, the eighth day of the nearly fortnight-long celebrations, animal killings reach a crescendo, with buffaloes, goats and chickens being slaughtered at the altars of various deities of power.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indiblitz.com/index.php/2007/10/18/silent-buddhists-pray-for-peace-as-nepal-revels-in-blood/"><P align="&#39justify&#39">Hundreds of red-robed lamas - Buddhist monks - led by the Nepal Ahimsavadi Bouddha Dharma Vishwa Shanti Chakra Sangh stopped speaking from Thursday in monasteries across 22 districts to issue silent prayers for the welfare of all creatures of god.</p> <P align="&#39justify&#39">
</P><P align="&#39justify&#39">The soundless prayers started from Lumbini town in southern Nepal, where the Buddha was born.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indiblitz.com/index.php/2007/10/18/silent-buddhists-pray-for-peace-as-nepal-revels-in-blood/">King Gyanendra came out of his palace</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indiblitz.com/index.php/2007/10/18/silent-buddhists-pray-for-peace-as-nepal-revels-in-blood/">to offer a goat at the altar of the goddesses of power at one of the main temples</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/28715AF1-BAE3-494B-91EB-6D5D065F7BE2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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