THE COMPASSION OF BUDDHISM A LESSON TO SRI LANKAN BUDDHISTS FROM THE AMAZON INDIANS
Posted on August 5th, 2009
It was Okakura the famous Japanese intellect who said that it was the compassion of Buddhism that elevates a lowly beast to the level of a human that made Buddhism acceptable to the Confucius China.
This photograph illustrates a amazon Indian woman breast feeding a babyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ monkey whose mother has been killed. What compassion a lesson for us all in light of the recent removal of breast feeding elephant cubs from there mother to be presented to the esteemed Buddhists temples of Sri Lanka