http://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/auditions/index.html

I am putting my Jodo Shin Shu Stuff online. I have recorded some Self
Help items and a Jodo Shin Shu Book, Sutra on True and Real

http://www.lulu.com/tinorozzo

Thanks

Only 27 PAges, The True and Real Sutra could be available to the public
soon.

Peace in Dharma
Tino

I was hoping to have something big here. Something lIke the old sangha
news. Maybe that will happen oneday.

Now I have worked on two spoken word projects, the Kyo Gyo Shin Sho on
tape-abridged. Also, Buddhism for Everday Living. These will be
available on LULU soon on Erik the Cat Records.

Anyone know about the new Buddhiust Center in Berkeley?

Gassho
Tino

http://www.lulu.com/tinorozzo

Now available at LULU.

Gassho
Tino

the January 2006  update to the Buddhist bibliography is now online at :
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while  the Buddhist directory is now online  at :
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hesitate to write to me with the url of the Buddhist website you wish to see
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and the "important dates of Buddhist history" listing is at :
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Happy reading and all of my best wishes for a very happy and prosperous new year
2006  !

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Seems like I was attacked a a Black Minister who
accused Buddhists in Japan for dying in Kamakaze raids
during WW2.

I had to inform him him it was Shinto. Kamakaze-Devine
Wind is a Shinto Concept.

Actually the Nishi Hongonji as under survailence by
the Japanese secret police for Peace protests. Many
where arrested.

This Minsister continued ignorant attacks on Buddhism
making erroneous claims.

I told him the essence of Buddha is to turn delusion
into enlightenment-Good Luck Rev Day tripper.

In Unity
Rev Tino Rozzo
BTA Prime Minister

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Guitar Classics

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Gassho

Lay Buddhists Join Labor Union in Korea
Lay Buddhists working at a local temple in the southern port of Pusan
have joined the local branch of the Korean Confederation of Trade
Unions (KCTU) in the latest move by religious people to lean on
collective action for better working conditions.

Around 30 "Bodhisattvas, who work as security guards, parking agents
and cooks at Samkwang Temple in Pusan,  have been in conflict with
the temple management , calling for "sincere"
negotiations. "Bodhissatva" refers to a lay Buddhist who vows to live
by compassion and seek enlightenment while serving priests and
working for the temple administration.
The Bodhisattva gathered last Saturday in front of the temple gates
along with a dozen KCTU activists with a variety of piclet signs and
banners with such messages as "Stop Unfair Labor" and "Be Sincere in
Negotiations."
  "Even though most of us have been working hard here for more than a
decade, the temple doesn't treat us as workers but as volunteers.
They see no need to compensate us for our labor,"a Budhisattva
claimed.

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if you know of a Buddhist web site which is not listed yet, please do not
hesitate to write to me with the url of the Buddhist website you wish to see
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Happy reading !

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Good luck to you Tino.


annie!


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Easily, Intelletcuals are too competitive. Everyonen wants a show of
their own. No one wants to follow dogma or doctrine. People with money
want changes and to have religion their way.
People don't seem to be sincere followers of Buddha Dharma, everyones
wants their own thing.
In Asia it must be easier, people here always want to be leader or
founder. Besides, Buddhism is still a wealthy Intellectuals Ball game
after all these years.  I come up with a lot of Jealousy amongst my
peers. In Asia would anyone screw with Shinran? I know his son did, but
that is different.

Peace in Dharma
Tino Rozzo

I do not know if Yahoogroups will let this message be broadcast since they
deleted my profile and therefore my mailiing lists, but now the "Buddhism"
mailing list is on Smartgroups :
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Erection of Buddha statue produces communal tensions
in Sri Lanka
By Nanda Wickremasinghe
9 June 2005
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Events in the eastern port city of Trincomalee in Sri
Lanka in recent weeks have heightened communal
tensions throughout the country, as well as the danger
of a return to civil war.

The immediate trigger was the erection of a statue of
Buddha in the town centre under cover of darkness on
the night of May 15. The Trincomalee Three Wheel
Drivers Association (TWDA) was responsible for the
provocative act, but other communal groups, including
the Sashanarakshaka Balamandalaya of Trincomalee (SB)
and the Northern Eastern Sinhala Organisation (NESO),
were also involved.

Trincomalee has a mixed population of Sinhalese,
Tamils and Muslims and has been ravaged by nearly two
decades of war. An increasingly fragile ceasefire
between the Colombo government and the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been in place since
early 2002. The erection of a Buddha statue in the
centre of the city was calculated to provoke
opposition from Tamils and inflame communal sentiment.

Successive Colombo governments have for years settled
impoverished Sinhala villagers in the area as a means
of altering the communal balance and providing a base
of support for the war against the LTTE. The LTTE
considers Trincomalee as a potential regional capital
if a peace deal is reached with the Colombo government
on a powersharing arrangement.

As soon as statue was erected, the Trincomalee
District Tamil Peoples Forum (TPF) organised a
city-wide hartal—strike and business shutdown—on May
17 to demand its removal. Most shops and offices
closed on the day and transport came to a halt.
Clashes took place between Tamil and Sinhalese mobs.
One person was killed and several were injured after
hand bombs were set off in a number of places. A local
politician later reported that a Tamil youth had been
shot dead at the nearby village of Sirimapura.

After the TPF lodged a formal complaint, a Trincomalee
magistrate ordered both sides to “peacefully settle”
the issue, but no agreement was reached. The hartal
continued for four more days, leading to further
violent clashes. The only shops that remained open
belonged to Sinhalese and Muslims. The TPF called off
its campaign on the Buddhist festival of Vesak (May
22-23), but warned protests would resume.

The statue has become a rallying point for Sinhala
chauvinists throughout the island. Two parties—the
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the Jathika Hela
Urumaya (JHU)—quickly jumped on the communal
bandwagon. In a statement to parliament on May 18, JVP
MP Wimal Weerawansa declared that “it is the Sinhala
population that is victimised” and called on the
government “to ensure the right of every religion”.
The obvious implication was that the Buddha statue and
the “rights of Sinhalese” had to be defended.

The JHU was even more forthright. Senior JHU MP and
Buddhist monk Athuraliye Rathana made two statements
in parliament defending the erection of the statue.
Rathana, along with JHU leader Ellawela Medhananda,
took part in a sit-down protest at Pettah in central
Colombo on May 19 against the removal of the statue
and against the government’s plans to establish a
joint body with the LTTE to distribute aid to tsunami
victims.

Speaking at the protest, Medhananda launched into a
diatribe against the LTTE and other Tamil
organisations. He declared that the campaign by Tamil
groups in Trincomalee was part of a plot to drive
Sinhalese residents out of the area. The JHU leader
called on the government to destroy an alleged
“airstrip” in LTTE-controlled territory—an action that
would be a flagrant act of war—and demanded that the
LTTE give up its arms before any agreement was reached
on the distribution of tsunami aid.

As tensions escalated in Trincomalee, Defence
Secretary Ashoka Jayawardene visited the area on May
21 in response to an army request for more troops. He
ordered the bolstering of security and that all state
institutions, banks and shops be kept open. The
military has since demarcated four high-security zones
and strengthened checkpoints in the city. On the
pretext that the statue was about to be attacked, the
army erected a barbed wire fence around the area on
May 25 and posted soldiers to guard the edifice.

On May 29, the SB and NESO further inflamed tensions
at a press conference in Colombo. SB leader Dehiowita
Piyatissa declared that the statue would only be
removed over his dead body and asked why the
government had not cracked down on Tamil protesters.

Another monk, Bengamuwe Nalaka, secretary of the
Patriotic Buddhist Bikkhu Front (Desha Premi Bikkhu
Sanvidhanaya), drew an absurd parallel between calls
for the removal of the Buddha statue in Trincomalee
and the Taliban’s destruction of centuries-old stone
statues at Bamiyan in Afghanistan in 2001.

The Colombo media has effectively backed the communal
campaign, with the Island group of newspapers playing
a particularly despicable role. On May 29, the Sinhala
language Irida Divayina defended the erection of the
statue in Trincomalee, declaring its removal would be
“the death knell of Sinhala Buddhists”. The editorial
invoked the spurious justification for Sinhala
Buddhist domination of the island: Buddha on his death
bed declared Sri Lanka would protect Buddhism.

The campaign has compounded the political difficulties
confronting President Chandrika Kumaratunga. The JVP,
which is the second largest component of the ruling
United Peoples Freedom Party (UPFA), has declared it
will quit the government if a joint aid mechanism with
the LTTE is established. As a result, the president is
desperate to defuse tensions over the statue, which is
becoming another source of friction in the coalition.

The UPFA government issued a statement on May 25
“expressing its concern over the tense situation in
Trincomalee” and calling for a solution “that would be
just and fair by all concerned and in conformity of
the law”. It blamed “small groups” for the trouble,
“with the assistance of the several outside forces”.

The Attorney General filed a case on behalf of the
government on June 1 in the Trincomalee district court
calling for the construction of a statue on the state
land to be declared unlawful. It also called for an
enjoining order to prevent any addition to the statue
until the court resolved the matter. The district
judge issued a notice to the parties responsible for
erecting the statue to appear before the court on June
13.

Kumaratunga also sent a second ministerial delegation
to Trincomalee on June 1 to seek a compromise between
Sinhala-Buddhist and Tamil groups, but to no avail.
The various Sinhala organisations involved refused to
even meet with the government delegation headed by
River Valley Development Minister Maithripala
Sirisena.

TPF leaders took part in the meeting, along with Hindu
and Catholic religious representatives. After
receiving assurances that security forces would be
withdrawn from Trincomalee, the TPF agreed to halt its
campaign but only until a court ruling on the issue on
June 13. Last Friday the TNA and TPF called a general
shutdown to protest over the fact that troops had not
been withdrawn from the town.

There is no resolution in sight. The Sinhala communal
groups involved in the campaign have indicated that
they will not abide by any court decision. Kumaratunga
is not prepared to seriously challenge these
organisations and their reactionary agitation for
“Buddhist rights” because her Sri Lanka Freedom Party,
like the Colombo political establishment as a whole,
is just as mired in communal politics as the JVP and
JHU.



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In a message dated 5/31/2005 7:06:26 AM Pacific Standard Time,
shinjin@... writes:

> Many converts are not really that welcome in a
> Jodo Shin Shu temple. I think it isn't only on the
> shoulders of caucasians.
>
> In Unity
> Rev Tino Rozzo
> Prime Minister BTA
>
>


      Good point Tino.

      Several years ago, at a Jodo Shinshu conference, the Japanese minister
of a temple across the Bay was talking about how diversified Jodo Shinshu
Buddhism had become, in terms of new members from different ethnicities.  His
comment -- 'Why, we even have blondes in Jodo Shinshu now.' and looked at me.
Since I was the ONLY blonde person in the whole audience, I was rather
'perturbed'
[for wont of another word to use, at this moment] at being singled out that
way.


      Good luck with your new Temple.


annie!


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Well, I am hoping to launch the Buddhist Temples if
America soon. and Amida University. I believe it is
long overdue.

I think  tha the BCA is a fine organization, but we
need something new also.

And I saw Rev Tanaka's article in the Metta from
Hawai'i.
I guess Asians consider most Caucasians Europian
Americans.
Here in the East a Euro American is ethnic. Not
meshing with the "All American Way of Life."
Some place with high degrees of Immigrants and multi
culturalism in the East-in the usa can be considered
Euro Americans.
I also beieve that Rev Tanatka is wrong about many
conjectures. I believe that there has to be a two way
street. Many converts are not really that welcome in a
Jodo Shin Shu temple. I think it isn't only on the
shoulders of caucasians.

In Unity
Rev Tino Rozzo
Prime Minister BTA








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the June  update to the Buddhist bibliography is now online at :
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In a message dated 4/30/2005 7:45:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,
shinjin@... writes:

>
>
> I have decided to promote my new organization Buddhist Temples of
> America and I hope to launch Amida University soon.  When I get my new
> printer, I'll be in business so to speak.
>
> http://bta.0catch.com/page1.htm or pg1.htm
>
> Peace In Dharma
> Tino
>
>
>
>

      Cool.  Congratulations, Tino.


<smile>


annie!


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I have decided to promote my new organization Buddhist Temples of
America and I hope to launch Amida University soon.  When I get my new
printer, I'll be in business so to speak.

http://bta.0catch.com/page1.htm or pg1.htm

Peace In Dharma
Tino

LuNge Anthem Media is now online @

http://www.LuNgeAnthem.com/

Please have a visit and all feedbacks are welcome!

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