Coming of the new God
7 April 2009
Deotay village in Samtse is seven hours walk from Phuentsholing. Out of 42 Tamang households, six are Christians and devout followers of Langu Dema, 70, their mondali (community head) and preacher. Langu Dema has been practising and preaching Christianity in her village since the early 1980s. She said it was easy to convert a whole family if one member could be converted.
Langu Dema regularly visits the Indian town of Jaigaon to receive instructions from the pastors there. She said that, during Christmas, more than 2000 Bhutanese believers visit Jaigaon. “Among them, there are many people from other parts of Bhutan,” she said.
A Jaigaon businessman said that a few pastors came to his office to send emails to their sponsors abroad. “I have heard that they are paid for converting people from the Himalayan region but there is no proof,” he said.
Some Christians said that pastors were paid by Christian trusts for converting more than four people to Christianity.
But the pastors denied the allegation.
However, sources say that, in the name of Jesus, some people across the border are making quick money. In Jaigaon, some individuals receive money from Christians in the west for sending pictures of non-Bhutanese in Bhutanese dress, portrayed as new converts.
Samuel Dahal is a Protestant pastor based in Jaigaon. A registered preacher of a Christian trust based in Hyderabad, India, Samuel said the motto of his trust was to pass the message of Jesus to p1as many Himalayan people as possible. He added that he had visited Paro and Thimphu a few times. “Every pastor has different areas to cover,” he said, adding that there was “a good number” of pastors in Bhutan who could do the job.
“We get rewarded for our good work, in cash or in kind, not necessarily from abroad but also from within,” said A T Thomas, another pastor in Jaigaon. He said that, if someone started a charity, there was financial help. But he added that the money was not for converting people but for doing good work.
Gracy, a Bhutanese preacher, moves around the country preaching Pentecostal form of Christianity. She said she did not receive a salary but got travel allowances from the church. She said, “We don’t receive money from outside but raise our own.”
Samuel Dahal said Roman Catholic must be paying some individuals for their education, but it is not necessarily for conversion. Every Christian contributes 10 percent of their monthly earning to the church. The money is used for payment of pastors and preachers.
There are no churches in Bhutan but people gather in a rented house or apartment to pray and conduct meetings.
Sheb Tshering, a Lhob from Samtse, said the Christian preachers are well-versed in languages and there is no need to pay someone to convert.
“Their sweet words will lure you,” he said.
Tshering (first name withdrawn on request), a born Protestant, said there were a lot of pastors in Bhutanese towns like Thimphu, preaching in Dzongkha, Sarchhopkha, Khengkha and Lhotshamkha, among others.
Believers said they were relieved when Bhutan adopted its constitution which guaranteed freedom of religion. However, they said that they respected the constitution and did not propagate Christianity forcefully. Many Indian pastors have visited Bhutan to preach on invitation by their friends and believers.
Sources said Christianity had made inroads into the interior dzongkhags as well. In Pemagatshel, a pastor from Jaigoan is reportedly behind the conversion of a family of seven. The father of the family said domestic reasons led his family to conversion.
Regarding the recent killing of a woman by a Christian community in Samtse, pastor J S Chhetri from Jaigaon said it was out of ignorance of the religion.
Pastor Joel said that the BiBible says there is an evil spirit in a person if he or she shows unusual body language and acts differently. “But we treat the person with prayers and love,” he said.
Meanwhile, Bamlash Tamang from Samtse said he was planning to convert to Christianity because some pastors from Jaigaon visited his village to preach but he had not seen anyone receiving money for conversion.
Jas Raj Tamang from Jenchu village in Samtse said the poor and sick converted to Christianity because they received a lot of financial help. He added that pastors visited the village to perform rituals for the dead and give financial help to the believers.
According to Gup Drep Krisna Tamang, when community people follow different faiths, problems arise with regards to funeral rites. He said that there were instances where some members of a family buried a dead body while others unearthed and burnt it.
J B Basnet, a Hindu civil servant in Thimphu, said conversion to Christianity meant refraining from alcohol and tobacco and helping one another in times of need. But there were many problems if everyone in the family did not follow the same religion.
There are instances of conversion leading to divorces. Priya Pradhan is a class VII student. Her father is a Hindu and her mother, a Christian. She said her parents quarrelled every night before getting divorced.
Priya studies in Jaigaon in a Christian missionary school. “My teacher receives money from my sponsor and I don’t have to pay school fees,” she said.
Tshering Yeshey from Sinchula in Chhukha said he did not have any bad feeling against Christians but forceful conversion and labelling non-Christians as Satan was unacceptable.
Some recent Christian converts in Pachhu in Chhukha said they had converted to Christianity because their former religion was too expensive, especially during marriage, lo chhoe and funeral.
The Director of Department of Culture, Dorji Tshering, said that, as long as there is no forceful conversion, the constitution guarantees the freedom of religion. “If it doesn’t disturb peace and harmony in the country, any religion is acceptable,” he said, adding that the international media’s allegations against Bhutan’s restrictive religious freedom are baseless.
By Rabi C. Dahal
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i have nothing against any religion but I have seen people convincing others to convert to Christians….if God is one why convert people to one or another religion?
Great!! Western people hardly go to church any more and they are try to convert the religion from other countries…..
At no point of time can the whole world be converted into one religious faith. It has never happened even when Jesus Christ was life n kicking the earth or when lord Buddha was preaching and so forth and it wil never happen. So no matter how much money is being pump in to convert people to a diffrent faith, one thing is for sure… it will never happen.
Its something like that at one side of the globe.. poor, innocent and ignorent poeple get converted to one faith while at the other side of the globe….rich, well educated, wel informed peole get carried away by a different faith, and yet some other people to another religious faith.
Religion should serve humanity not the other way round. All religions are equal and they all teach basically the same; not to harm others, compassion, respect for self and others, loving kindness. So i think its we humans who make too much of a fuss about religion.
Lets do like this.. practice your religion.. and let others practice their religion… dont convert….we need diversity.
Do not get alarmed on what is happening, just reflect on where we are lacking. This calls for our Dratshang Lhentshog and Lamas to wake up. Ever wondered why westerners in large numbers are embracing buddhism ? I guess it is the mode of delivery and the simple practice propogated by the lamas who go there.
Also it is high time that we encourage the practice of “Socially Engaged buddhism”. (Those who are interested in knowing more about it can find out using google).
(This is the edited version of the above comments. There were some editorial mistakes on the comments above)
I have learnt somewhere that converts are more violent than those who are born with the religion. When a person is born, like first sound of language, he absorbs some elements of religion too. However, when a person converts, he converts because he was not satisfied with the previous religion he followed. Therefore, they always believe that the new religion is better than the old one. Unconsciously, they harbour hatred for the old one. In the process, they shed the old one and fail to arrive at the new one because the main purpose of religion to love and discard hatred is defeated. Consider that you write something on a book with a pencil. You can erase the writing, there is no doubt about it. And you can also write with new pencil or pen. But no matter how best you erase the first writing, there are always some traces left. Many people are not always soft on erasing the mistakes. If you watch your child do the rubbing on his/ her mistakes on book, you will notice it. Even otherwise, the book do sustain the impact of erasing it.
Sometimes, during the process of erasing the first writings, the paper often gets torn. In the process of proselytization, same thing tend to happen .We are not only confusing ourselves but our children and their children.
A gho that suits one may not suit another. A religion in same way offers the same perspective. What is good to one will not always be good to another. So why proselytize people?
To be able to understand religion, one needs certain level of understanding. Without some motivation, people will not change. And that motivation I guess is the cash and kind people get while being proselytized. Like in any business, string is attached and that string is proselytization. It doesnt end there. People end up living confused and pass on the confusion to the rest of their generations. Indirectly, we are breeding grounds for violence in the future. This is what happened in Orissa in India recently.
Chew on it well while I chew doma.
Tshering
Like Girl has pointed out, if Gods has same motive, why convert them into different name. If their mission is to help why cant they do it without having to convert them. I am sure God, if any, has his heart big enough to tolerate helping without such conditions.
I am a Buddhist. Buddhism says you can go to church, mosque or any other institutions as long as he or she is following the truth. Why cant christains be open like this? Why don’t they let people analyze and let them choose on their own? This problem with Christians is not only here in Bhutan but elsewhere also (for eg. recent case in India). I watched a Christian show in TV, the pastor says it is not our job to know the whole thing but leave it for god. I do not understand. People in the west are asking questions and Christianity has failed to answer, so many have become either atheists or changed their faith. Whereas here in Buddhism, we encourage people to ask questions. Great minds have always asked questions for instance Einstein. You can google it.
Christians believe that there is only one “god,” and he’s the almighty and the most powerful who created the world and each and every one of us on this planet. If that were true, why couldn’t he create a world where everybody is a Christian. If I was created by “god,’ then why am I not a Christian. Whatever happened to his powers! That would have saved a lot of trouble of converting people of other faiths. That would have saved that poor lady in Dorokha.
My only guess is that he wanted to witness some fun and drama from up above. In that case, he is just as mean as some of us humans. What GOD would consider animals as food for humans? What GOD would consider non-Christians satans, and what GOD would send them to hell. After all, he supposedly created all of us. And interestingly, as powerful as he may be, he failed to create a world full of Christians. And that says something about him.
Here is a food for thought: How come the “GOD” is a man. If there is such a thing as the GOD, I would think it should be a she and not he. AND by the way, who created GOD? He’s got to come from somewhere. How come he enjoys all the luxury and fancies of some human beings! What did he do that he deserves all our devotion. Bring us the answer!!!
Incase of Buddhism, one is considered a Bodhisattva, only after he/she gains enlightenment. And enlightenment doesn’t come easy. There is a lot of hard work involved. BTW, god, in Buddhist terms, does not refer to an enlightened being. So may be the GOD is just one of those, in which case, it is not worth our devotion. Buddhism may not be for everybody, but it makes damn good sense. Leave it at that…
PLease, people. Let us not grow hatred over this matter, please. like tshering dorji mentioned. i urge all of us to please before commenting read what he has written. and surely it does ring true. i mean look at orissa. what happened there? does anybody have any idea? one person’s life is precious so lets just pray for evrybody’s peace and live in harmony,yeah….
no one can change u unless u want to change urself,…so why do people go around preaching n trying to convert them from any other religion to christan when you know that you won’t do it if you are asked to convert yourself to muslim or hindu or any other religion.if one look at it clearly n analyse it…all the gods and religions are same…its just that you view it from different angle n name it differently…lets say the god or the religion is a mountain..the people living in the south of that mountain name it bhuddist,north name it hindu,west name it christan n like wise east name it muslim…but at the end of the day what they call it differently is the same god…and what they follow is the same thing…
so just stop preaching and be content with what you are…don’t try to create problems discriminating other religions and making your religion superior.
New religions making inroads is a dangerous trend because of the narrow view of the practitioners. An innocent woman would not have been battered to death if the followers were genuinly religious. Authorities really need to take it seriously. I simply have the feeling that it is cult and not religion that is being propagated. I just believe in the fact that no individual rights should infringe the bond in the society which has existed for centuries. Freedom of practicing one’s faith is definitely not a licence to coax and convert people thereby causing hatred and violence in the society.
I think the essence of all religion is compassion and tolerance. An attempt to convert others is neither showing compassion nor practicing tolerance.
Is the right granted in the constitution as many claim simply a misinterpretation by different people? Is the individual right more important than the national ones? Are the so called internationally accepted benchmarks necessarily good for Bhutan? We know that we are being admired the world over because we followed our own path that is good for Bhutanese people. Today the success thus far is being tested by the freedom granted by constitution.
Its time politicians and the legislative body take serious note of what is happening around before it is too late.
one false step,……which is bound to take place ….. drive them out of Bhutan
How about another New god? Muslim.
So that we can getup early in the morning faced to the sunrise and started praying Alaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa HuaiAkubard.
give your picture and name list to church and robe them as much as you can saying you have converted to christin though you will be practicing buddhism inside.
give all the pictures you get and give different names just to send you more fees.
all the best.
karma dechan…i liked your wisdom which is developed through mountain….I respect you
kelzang…be politiciam may…you are above our bhutanes politician in this regards
kelzang…be politician may…you are above our bhutanes politician in this regard
guys, i am a buddhist and i think people are converting because thier karma of being a buddhist is exhausted and thier other karmas are starting. so, just let it be ,,,,and in the meantime we can do our own practise for all sentient beings to be free from suffering. if few buddhist chant om mani padme hung or om ah hung benza guru padme siddi hung , this is more beneficial for others than just blabbering mena friends. sorry, didn’t mean to offend any of you.
There is no point of practicing other than the state religion in a country like ours where there are handly 600,000 plus citizens. As long as you are bhutanese you should learn to adopt with the state practices. But evrything seem to be going other ways round.
Firstly, they aren’t a genuine citizens and secondly are against the state religion. Oh! what a people creating problem all over the world.
Hi everyone,
Let’s not breed hatred, instead let’s fulfill our obligations to sow peace. For we will reap peace if we sow peace. But the harvest will be hatred, if we plant hatred. Having said this, I would like to appeal everyone to be more sober and wise in giving your critics. Some of you sound very un-Buddhist and un-Bhutanese to me (sorry for that), at least from your comments. How much of Buddhism do you know and practice, by the way? No human beings are perfect and so do religions. Therefore, it is very important for all of us to be gentle, tolerant and loving towards each other.
Every citizen has a right by virtue of our Constitution to choose ones own faith and belief based on his/her conviction. However, one has to co-exist peacefully with our fellow-citizens. One must be loyal to the country and work for the overall development of our nation. To me it does not matter which religion you belong to. For instance I have lots of Buddhist and Christian friends alike and neither of them are all perfect, but they are good people and good friends of mine. And also they are productive and constructive citizens of our country. How about you?
Hi everyone,
Let’s not breed hatred, instead let’s fulfill our obligations to sow peace. For we will reap peace if we sow peace. But the harvest will be hatred, if we plant hatred. Having said this, I would like to appeal everyone to be more sober and wise in giving your critics. Some of you sound very un-Buddhist and un-Bhutanese to me (sorry for that), at least from your comments. How much of Buddhism do you know and practice, by the way? No human beings are perfect and so do religions. Therefore, it is very important for all of us to be gentle, tolerant and loving towards each other.
I am confident that our Visionary King and those who assisted him in his initiative to write our Constitution are very wise and they knew what is best for the country. So let’s continue to respect and have confidence in our Constitution. Every citizen has a right by virtue of our Constitution to choose ones own faith and belief based on his/her conviction. However, one has to co-exist peacefully with our fellow-citizens. One must be loyal to the country and work for the overall development of our nation. To me it does not matter which religion you belong to. For instance I have lots of Buddhist and Christian friends alike and neither of them are all perfect, but they are good people and good friends of mine. And also they are productive and constructive citizens of our country. How about you?
It’s really really sad to hear what’s happening in Bhutan. Buddhism is an atheist religion, in fact, many buddhist teachers hesitate to catogorize in religion also. We don’t believe in Gods as a creator. Mind is the creator! But we believe that there something deep which we beings lack to understand. And because buddhism not just a faith oriented, we have a lot of buddhist philosophy to actually prove that there is deeper reality than what we believe it to be. And that is known as the ultimate truth; emptiness or whatever buddha-nature or whatever you will like to call it. All the statues, deities, and rituals have deeper meaning too than just an outer form. But of course we don’t study those. Lack of interest or lack of teachers to teach those. I believe that it is because of monks residing in those dzongs being very conservative and not coming out to really teach the youngsters. I don’t know how long will they go along like that if they don’t have a support from the people in the future. And more than their survival, how long will the teachings of Buddha dharma survive if nobody really put interest in making young people understand it. I believe that the teaching our prince siddhartha gave 2500+ year ago is the most valuable gift we have on this planet earth. It strikes you to look for the truth not to hide under some blind-faith. In the west people are converting themselves from Chirtianity to atheisism, buddhism or Hinduism. And they have reasons. This is a religion where guilt of being a sinner is so much emphasized. And seriously do you want to feel guilty of being a sinner and live life with fear whole live? In Buddhism we talk about Buddha-nature. And all beings have that. All beings can become Buddha because that is our true nature. (We have whole bunch of philosophy written by indian scholars on buddha-nature and emptiness. We shuold study them not only monks.) The whole samsara is just like a dream. You can wake up from it. And that waking up is called Buddha. So when you become Buddha, it’s not that you’ve become God also. Buddha is not a god but the complete realization of the truth – an awakened mind.
The monks should really change the way they are preserving the dharma at present. They should think about future generation, buddhist people and buddhism. I’m really saddened by this article. Young people should never convert to chirstianity because it’s cool or they give you food and money. We have to preserve our culture and wisdom which is the most valuable in this whole world. Because of our culture and wisdom, we have such a philosophy as GNH. And we should promote and preserve those. And we can serve the whole humanity with those.
Love and peace*
there should be religious freedom in the country BUT THERE SHOULD BE ANTI-CONVERSION LAWS TOO!!
WE NEED ANTI-CONVERSION LAW IN BHUTAN!!
the big gun of monastic body has approved propagation of christianity,I think personally,because being them buddhist they don’t go for partiality.other I don’t think so.
why we should get alarmed just because somebody is going to convert us to them unless we are not theirs. i deal with many of my christian friends and i find they are happy with my religion Buddhism and i too is not finding any fault in their religion but what i merely see in who somebody tries to convert someone to theirs religion is not cultivating religion but a mere commercial job of earning livelihood and mostly in an around the world many of us has omitted the main aim of practicing religion but began as a job to earn. i mean if the person who is under the process of conversion is wise enough they will surely not go for this. i am Buddhist and i trust Buddhism not because i am born Buddhist but as the principle statement of Buddhism i find and has conviction that its strongly true.so we must feel others view is also true as much as we feel,and this is what Buddhism is where nothing is differentiated.
hello every one, no religion is bad. which religion do you all think preaches you to do bad, kill people, tell lie,…..etc. it is all the different forms of same thing. people of bhutan call it as buddhism (majority), people of india call it as hinduism, people of europe call it as christianity, people of arab countries call it as islam and people of china and a few latin american countries call it as Atheist. should there be god at all, it is one and not just mighty but HE IS ALMIGHTY. you have the freedom to admire any form of this ALMIGHTY, so follow which ever is sharukh khan for you. in my understanding, to disregard other religion itself is against the very philosophy of buddhism if you are a real buddhist at heart.
Unless you learn to understand your true nature of mind, your true identity, no matter how many times you convert to how many different religions, you will come to one same destination – being lost. So, will you continue letting yourself lost in this samsara?
we like buddhist and we are buddhist,why to flow christianity?????????????
we bron as bhutanese.bhutanese them self making fool yeah
New God is coming up when old God, being asked for formers entrance, boldly believes in impartiality, where he is left with no option but to welcome for part of his place.
its just so obvious that christianity has to pay to make people believe all those wondrous gospel stories but hey, see this way. Missionaries traveling half the world preaching what they believe and giving away food and money to those who could definitely use an extra hand. I mean if i had a domestic problem and cant sustain my family, you cant blame me for changing my faith. Right? thats my choice regardless of what ever the heck society would say. Now thats my freedom of religion but anyway my point is, thats totally a wrong approach to god, well if there is one. I think those pastors and missionaries need to be educated!. so they would live their life in peace and stop worrying about the worldly religion. personally, it dont matter to me. religion is too personal for me regardless of which ever god and faith we are refering to. To all the readers i would say, if you are doing it, do it whole heartedly or else just dont and respect that either way. dont be too judgmental on a persons character cos their faith is different from ours or yours. Cheers everybody.
Hey everyone living in Bhutan, u all are buddhist, no place for christan…..
only those few southern Bhutanese and some other group of people who really deserve life imprisonment or exile are happy with the christanity …..I say go to hell for christanity….
hello everyone
better take a precuation before it becomes a worst scene in our country. Look, example in other country how it is happening just because of a religion and simple example that happened at samtse last time . SO WE ARE BORN AS BHUTANESE, BE A BHUDDHIST” ” ON E PEOPLE ONE NATION , ONE RELIGION, ONE CULTURE,……….. AND BE AS STRONG ON NATION”
honestly we all should respect all religions cos they teach people to be good but I cant stand it when people tried to convert others n christianity is the religion that loved to convert others and they can never show basic respect to others religion n rights. if christianity is that good n fantastic, i don’t see the need that u guys had to run everywhere in the world trying to convert others. do u know that u make yr own religion so cheap n low class cos always running around to beg others join yr religion. others told me that a christian volunteer in spore even kneel down to beg a guy to join the religion on the street, so do u think that is something u can feel proud of????
anys christians talk crap all the times n basically they dun even talk common sense and i feel pity for them…… as simple as that is others will respect U when U can show respect to them too.. so all bhutanese must stand united as ONE all the times and and dun be so easily taken in by sweet talk by intruders!!! if u guys can understand the meaning of life, am sure u won’t ever be easliy being convert by others!!!!
It is so nice to rread this article!!
THESE POEPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO CONVERT INNOCENT SOULS INTO OTHER RELIGION DO NOT KNOW THE REAL MEANING OF RELIGION.
I SAY THEY DONOT AT ALL KNOW WHAT RELIGION IS…..WHAT GOD IS…. WHAT TRUTH IS…..
IF THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED THE ESSENSE OF GOD, THEN THEY NEEDNOT HAVE TO ACT LIKE THESE……
IF ANY ONE IS ABOUT TO MOVE INTO IT…….THEN TAKE MY WORD
” THESE POEPLE DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SIPRITUALITY & RELIGION…. YOU ARE BEING FOOLED BY THEM”
YOUNTEN
Hi fellow friends you will never end up your talkings regardings religions and you will never find end solution for the problems of the religions. We are all playing the drama on this earth that is assigned by your karma of previous birth. Or the God has sent us to find the end solution of the religion to make the world as one reigions. That is why we all are on the process of finding the correct religion to born as human being on the next life.
joining Christianity means short termly benefited that even soccer can do.
however not so truly benefited.
bhudhhism ,christainity or any other religions of the world do not contradict so much when it comes to the philosophical concept of its teachings.all the religions does not belief in killing or hating eacother. they all belief in one thing i.e, to love all. so there is no need of conversion. yes the christains who tend to encircle the innocent bhudhists under their dominance should understand that the feild of religion does not entertain the making of other alien people forcefully to belief what they belief
Mental transformations ought to be encouraged. Why forbid people to believe as their conscience tells them? Those who call for making conversion illegal are really very much in the business of controlling other people’s minds. If by anti-conversion laws you mean just that people should be forbidden to use money or property as a way of persuading people to change religion… Well, I agree with you there! But if it just means passing along literature and talking to other people. That’s what we mean by freedom. Buddhism accepts mental transformations as part of life in sangsara, and as necessary for dealing with it. A little Lojong is really in order here. And some flexibility, thinking how different things help different people at different stages of their spiritual development.
I don’t blame those who are converting to christians, i blame ourselves and our religious system, Budhhist, so-called mahayanists have become cultist and we even didn’t have highly respected hindu priest for hindu to respect and clear their doubts though all of us know that Buddhism sprung out of hinduism though some buddhist religious fanatics will disagree.
Besides, cost of being buddhist has become so high. Idol worshiping, feeding thousands of monk from our tax, disciple walking lama who is giving wang to collect money.. so called wangyoen in their bulky sack, indisciplined monks bragging and flirting with girls, lots of money are wasted on building monuments.
Mahayanist Buddhism also affect freedom of belief, You cannot argue against your teachers, sign of Khandom (beautiful woman) to be exploited by young truelku who know more about anatomy woman than meaning of religion, the theory re-incarnation, which are more than one which led to confusions, the motive behind nominating reincarnation.
so, it is better to change orthodox concept of our religion( both buddhism and hinduism) than talking aboout curtailing their right to choose religion through some laws.
have you ever found our venerable lamas trying to build charity house and help lesser beings other than their, “Tharpai Gophang) teaching though they couldn’t attain themselves but fool people in believing that they came back for well-being of sentients being. if there is so-called re-incarnation, they came in well-being of their majestic monastery.
Believe it or not, most of what our lama practise are not taught by Buddha. you can called it as progressive teachings just like christians paid fare(conversion fee) to gateway of Heaven.
please continue to debate, and to question, it’s good. i live in the u.s.a. and am 52 years old. after much corruption in the catholic/christian church here i left many years ago for Buddhism. this allows me to learn more,and to be more compassionate.our last president even used dreams in his christianity to take us to war! christians feel they must convert the entire world to their belief system.please don’t let that happen to you. diverisity is a wonderful thing. we should respect and love each other and understand as Lord Buddha said lessons are taught in many ways so people of different ways may understand.thus i allow my christian brothers to learn in their own way, but i must correct them when they try to push this onto everyone else. also, please, there are many so called christian movements in america reaching out all over the world but only to keep up multi billion dollar churches and incomes. they are caught regularily here but continue to operate. so please be careful. we always think things are better someplace else, but wake up to find out it is not always so. peace and coexist from america,,,,,rick….
hi,
religion, no religion.. Buddhism no Buddhism, christian no christian……..so on and so forth…. doing something good for all the sentient being should not meant that they should be what you are.. all the gods are same and one. help the sentient being you are equal to the god.
nothing is beautiful than to realize that everything is good..
Hi ! everyone ..I respect all the religion …but bhutan must be remain only buddhist country. I think all our bhutanese citizen must protect our own religion ( buddhisim ) . Don’t let other religion to involve in our beautiful religion and peaceful country bhutan. If we do not care about this matter then it will cause many problem within country in near future .
jimi
Hi ! everyone ..I respect all the religion …but bhutan must be remain only buddhist country. I think all our bhutanese citizen must protect our own religion ( buddhisim ) . Don’t let other religion to involve in our beautiful religion and peaceful country bhutan. If we do not care about this matter then it will cause many problem within country in near future .
jimi
California
USA