Footwear store in Geneva uses Buddha statue to hang shoes
26 June 2009
26 Jun 2009, 0009 hrs IST, Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN
PATNA: Sight-seeing in Switzerland does not leave a vacationer horrified, but Patna’s Prabhat Choudhary, his wife and daughter were shocked to see a Lord Buddha statue garlanded with a pair of shoes at a footwear shop in Geneva.
“We were strolling on shopping street when my 15-year-old daughter insisted that we got into ‘Anne Fontaine’, a designer footwear shop. There in the shop, we saw a 4-ft statue of Lord Buddha on the shelf displaying shoes and slippers, garlanded with a pair of shoes,” Prabhat, a realtor, recalled.
The family was shocked. Prabhat’s daughter, was furious. Though her parents were a bit frightened, she persuaded them to let her shoot the sight with her videocam. The girl, a student of Patna’s prestigious Notre Dame Academy, accomplished her mission without anyone – the shop staff or the crowd of customers – knowing about it.
Back home, Prabhat has sent a letter to the ministry of external affairs, requesting it to take up the matter with Swiss authorities.
Courtesy: The Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Shop-in-Geneva-uses-Buddha-statue-to-hang-shoes/articleshow/4703382.cms
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Its really sad to know that such thing are happening in other parts of the world..how dear can they do this with Buddha;s status..to whom we worship a lot…..forget about hanging shoes on it we can;t even display buddha;s status anywhere they like…
If I had the authority I would sent those peopple whoever haev done this to life prison……anyway thans to the Author who broght this to the notice os the autiorities in Swiss
Teepee…………don’t befool yourself that you are religious person now. Why create mess about this stupid thing. A statue made by man is not a buddha himself. It is just an image. But I undertand your stupidity since we all are brought up by those so-called religious person to mistake such stupid statues as something and forget ourselves as buddha. Humanity is not important but all these stupid things like statues, scriptures and all. All statues, scriptures and history of any nation should be burnt once and for all so that humanity can be brougth back. At the moment in the name of all these religions, which are just nonsense the humanity is lost. That stupid daughter of those couple from Patna is simply conditioned as Buddhist living near Bodhgaya. What is your comment had the statue been Jesus’ or Krishna or some other famous religious leaders of the past like Sidhartha Gautama.
So you want that shop owner to be sent to prison for this simple act? Let people do whatever they like with any statues. Who are we to bother. Don’t show your stupidity and degenerate buddhism. Buddhism has been degenerated because of stupid people like you who think that you all are religious. Those stupid Tibetan lamas and all who does not know ABC of meditation but full of rituals and worshipping those lifeless statues.
May you know the real spirituality in this life. I pity you.
This is outrageous!
I find this Tulku Sergyel Bomdhen very ironic. Are you really Tulku or a fake one cheating people. Are you not stupid yourself to call others stupid on many counts? What makes you perfect? Every word that you speak inflicts pain to others.
You must be one of the socialist who thinks religion is poison. You are one mad tulku. May you live in peace and not cause harm to others.
One who cannot recognise the image of Buddha cannot recognise his owner nature of mind. I donot understand why the trulku sergyal Bomdhen is not supporting the preservation of Buddhist culture. As a title of Trulku he should be suppporting other people in spoiling the Buddha’s image. Whenever we support the Buddhism, Trulku Bomdhen disagrees. I think you are not Buddhist Trulku or you are disguising to be buddhist Trulku. You donot deserve this title and if you are right you can visit the BBS Live show so that Bhutanese can put off the question to your unholiness trulku.
For your kind information you donot deserve to be trulku and i want to know which rimpoche have recognise you as an trulku. Guru rimpoche have predicted that at this degenerate age, evils and devils will born as an holy one and that is you.
Plez donot misuse your Buddhist title of Trulku and i am sure you are the muslim trulku who dislikes the Buddhism.
No one is going to appreciate your comments. if You speak infront of the public, you will never see the next day. How dare you could blame the Tibetan lama who are well skill in Medatation or ritual. You care the empty vessel which can create more sound
To : Tulku Sergyel Bomdhen
I think you are not a real tulku but infact the way u write trying to distort and mislead, u resemble like one of those cunning fanatically obsessed missionary guys who is greatly frustrated by repeated failure to make much break through with all means of lurement upon the innocent people of Bhutan whose centuries of unwavering faith to Buddha Dharma have shown them the door to exit.
Shame on you. You are like a cunning jackal wearing a sheep clothing and misleading people. We all know that a clay can never be a human. But once a clay has been sculptured in the shape of Buddha then it is supposed to represents Buddha. To exploit Buddha in such demeaning way is to discredit for what he stands for – universal peace, compassion, and goodness of all beings.
A picture of you or ur family member would represent you or your family member and if someone spits or pisses on it infront of everybody would u still be able to maintain that wry smile of wisdom of yours. Remember that statue is of no ordinary being and it inspires us and lots of other people to do so many good things in life. If it was the statue of Jesus or Krishna we would have condemned it in the same way.
The time has not yet come when the likes of Buddha be garlanded with shoes and the likes of Osama bin ladin be garlanded with flowers. Such demeaning act will never be normal for us. To defend such case is a sign for you to visit some mental hospital and we will pray for your quick recovery.
Buddha statue hang shoes,Hi Pratha, not only you I too felt sad seeing Buddha Statue living in poor conditoin,
Hi Teepee, You are right, Every nation has religion and laws to follow, If Lno laws peopele will act as they wish.
Ven Trulku,
Your teachings is really good to the public so that they can understand which the real Buddha was.
Buddha statue hang shoes,Hi Pratha, not only you I too felt sad seeing Buddha Statue living in poor conditoin,
Hi Teepee, You are right, Every nation has religion and laws to follow, If no laws peopele will act as they wish.
Ven Trulku,
Your teachings is really good to the public so that they can they understand which the real Buddha was.
********* -Tulku Sergyel Bomdhen-Send me your Image..I will make your status and make it your image in the shape of Toilet pot and distribute all over for use so that every one can sit on your image and pass stool…nothgin more than this you would deserve.
Also never use the Title Tulku since you are making us comment negatively on such titles when we are never intended to do so….if you do not do it yourtself at least appreciate what others do and if not just keep your dirty mouth shut….the more you speak the more evil you become……
Just send me your phot to be made toilet pot and place in everyone’s toilet……
This trulku is I guess living in Toronto amidst dollars donated by foolish Jindas. What will he know other than to dupe the canadians. He is a classic example of rich lama bent to destroy the religion which is actually giving all the dollars. If Buddha were to look from heaven he will cry by looking at tulku like bomdhen and repent for establishing buddhism.
To hell with Tulku Sergyel Bomdhen. If Buddha’s statue is not to be respected then why should we have Lhakhangs and chortens which explicitly contain statues of Buddha and great lamas. Any answers Mr. Imposting Tulku?
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA……….so religious you all are. Please go ahead and fight for that buddha statue and die like muslims do in the name of jihad. This is the compassion of Gautama the buddha you all have understood. Go and die and also if you all wish to kill me. Come to Toronto. I will give all my phone number and address. Not only that if you don’t want to be caught by the police just tell me to come to an unknown place. You all can show your compassion and religious nature that way, which you all are already doing that. Don’t think that you are doing something great by being so unconscious like this. Muslims are better off since they have a clear cut plan to kill and harm others and they don’t say that they are religious like you all. They are not. You all are so religious that you possess all such feelings. See the stupidity and the rediculousness of being carried away by something which is curved by man. None of the statues dedicated to Buddha look like him. He is suppose to look like one of the Bahadurs since he was of Nepali origin. All the buddhas look like some Indians or Tibetans since they are either made by Indians or Tibetans.
You Bhutanese can go on deceiving yourself. You are not following your culture. you are simply following either Indian or Tibetan culture. Just extended form of it. You have all those spiritual charalatans annointed by Tibetan group of lamas as great reincarnations and you all throw your hardcore earnings and receive so-called empowerment. Just touching your head with that dirty hand which collected sweat and blood of inocent people. And someone has said that my image should be made into toilet pot and circulated. This is a very good apprach. Why don’t you use latest photoshop and make me naked and getting sodomised by some of you. This is again a very religious feelings of you people. But my heart aches so much when I see through and through what sort of calamity you all will be encountering the moment you stop breathing. I mean during the time of your death. All these bullshits like buddha images and all are just nothing other than mirage. The buddhahood that you carry will be lost in unconsciousness and again you will have to come back to the school called earth in various forms to undergo schooling and to polish your wretched soul.
May peace be upon you.
I have forgotten to clarify one more thing. The word Trulku means someone who is a carbon copy of his past life. He is not original. He is just a Xeroxed being who follows that age old tradition and repeat things like parrots do. He does not know abc of meditation like most of you.
by following the image of buddha how many Bhutanese have gone to that so-called western land of pure bliss? From where do you collect such statisitcs.
Again somebody has said that I should have live interview with BBS and probably won’t see the next day since you religious people would kill me to show your compassion.
See the religiousness of you people! When I hear such things my hope of raising human consciousness becomes ZERO.
Trelku sergyel bomden is a witch/demon in the form of human being. you are the one to demolish bhudha…is it.
hey man you cant do that ok…. you are filled with loads and loads of negative karmic actions.
for going aganist bhudha, you will see the real consequence in this life itself.
demons get lost …………………
wildbeast………as the name suggest you are a real wildbeast. You don’t even know what this word buddha means. It simply means a person who is awakened. It has got nothing to do with the Sidhartha Guatama who also became buddha ofcourse, meaning awakened. The moment you hear the word buddha immeditately your petty little mind will always almost think of Shakyamuni buddha of Bihar, which you and your forefathers had been worshipping for centuries and prolonging your own buddhahood from flowering.
There is not point powering water onto a closed container but I am sharing this insight for the sake of others. For a person like you it will mean nothing. Still you are not accepting the fact that the image made by man is not a buddha. And you are saying that I am a buddha destroyer. If buddha can be destroyed it is worth destroying. Buddha seems to be very powerless. He can be destroyed so easily. But I know the understanding of buddha for you people is something to do with lies. So lies can only be destroyed so easily not the truth.
Once again out of my compassion I would like to remind you to awaken. Don’t wait for some buddhas or saviours if you are a christain and so forth to redeem you. You are really becoming so unconscious and perhaps unconsciousness is the sin. And with the sin you still think that you can attain to buddhahood. I know you are thoroughly spoilt by many things like religion, so-called rituals that will bring you wealth and peace of mind or some lamas or gurus can set your soul free. All esoteric bullshits!
Truelku Sergyel.
Reverend Frank!
You are right. I am not a Tulku in your sense. I have not been annointed by those idiotic group of old Tibetan monks. They did not certify me. I am not a carbon copy of somebody in the past. I am an original. My enlightenment or my destiny. Only I know. I cannot be represented by those stupid and idiotic lamas of Tibet who certify who is who. I am not that type of Tulku who is like a soldier following the commands of some army captains. I am a free man who educated in the west and also thoroughly studied buddhist texts and found them that they all are just rubbish like bible, koran, gita, upanishad and so forth. I have realised and awakened all by myself and known that the consciousness is neither Buddhist, nor Hindu nor Islam or Christain. It is not even Bhutanese or Chinese or an Indian. It is an end unto itselt. And there is no path to it other than remaining conscious all the time. One cannot approach as a buddhist towards buddhahood. That is why there are thousands of buddhist temples containing monks and nuns. None of them have become buddha. What is the matter? At the most they become gays and lesbians. Ofcourse they also become parrots–repeating scriptures mechanically and also following their so-called rootguru or trunk guru or an apex guru—-I don’t know.
Apparently one does not see one’s own tragedy in life. Life is slipping from one’s hand every moment and one goes on deceiving oneself that one knows what the ultimate truth is. There cannot be a greater deception in one’s life than this.
May you know the bliss of the divine!
Truelku Sergyel.
Kota and Jigme,
You don’t even understand why the statues of buddha are kept in Lhakhangs and Chortens? They are placed there to keep people blind and make people stupid like two of you. See how two of you conform to it so religiously. When devil losts his jobs these lamas and stupid group of monks took over his job of constructing temples and chortens.
Yes I gulp the dollars of those Canadians. They recently gave me 2 million USD. I did not accept it since two of them were greedy capatalists……old and wretched. Don’t know where they are going in this life. At last to throw away their guilts of exploiting and robbing people legally ofcourse they have come to me wtih that money. I sent them back. They will soon find those religious people from either India or Tibet to accept that gifts and shower blessings for their good happenings after life. They may even construct Chortens and Lhakhangs as you say and keep the statues of Buddha. So they are religious like two of you.
All the best for two of your stupidity in this life. But please have a trade mark and copy right of it so that others cannot have right of such stupidity and can only remain with two of you.
Truelku Sergyel Bhumdhen.
Tulku Sergyel Bomdhen is an animal born in human form..tyhat god he atleast knows how to read and write…..
I give up once and for all now. I won’t be coming in next life so there is no chance for all of us to meet each other. Bye forever. I still wish you all to realise your buddhahood. I am really pissed now. Even the moderator here seems to have cut off most of my messages.
Evil Truklu Sergyel Bomden, The demon which was not able to tame by Buddhas Love and compassion was tame with ferious nature of Guru Rimpoche to stop the future obstacle to Dharma.
It is very sad to know that in some parts of the world people are trying to humilate others religion.. Hey u sergyel bumden or whoever you are, i know that you are evil and silly orthodrox.. If u dont like bhudhism you just mind your own business and ever try to past dirty comments on it..
Who ever done such thing like hanging shoes on bhuddha statue.. They are just coward and the time will come they will have to face the misfortune in their life..
Trulku Sergyel, seems you know little bit about buddhism but remember little knowledge is dangerous.. People like you will find impossible to know what buddhism is because you are posseesed with evil spirit inside you..
No one can demonstrate live of attaining enlightment, not even other religions can.. It is something to with our self and experience our self..
So you stupid Sergyel try to do research yourself and write some thing meaningful. First try to learn the ABC of the topic, analyze carefully and then comment.. I did not know that there will be such person like you in this world.. You are really stupid, fool, evil, who have just came in the human form.. You are born unfortunate in this life itself.. In your next life also you will be born as worse as now..
To: Sergyel Bomdhen=Mindu Dorje= Ignorant Fool
I know u vl be back to read what response u get :
Let me point out that ur attribute is as fake a person as ur claim to be a tulku. As a human being u are a blot and a shame to your parents who gave birth to such spineless character whose mission is to indulge in negativity, sow disharmony and find extreme joy in such attempts. You are a COWARD and thats what u vl always be. You cannot come in the open becoz you urself are not confident about what u say. Mark my words- u vl always remain a coward and indulge in more negative activities and be more frustrated and restless than u already are. And dont worry, u vl never find birth in human world again coz u vl be rotting for aeons in hell. Dont think u vl live forvever and remember that death can strike before tomorrow. The more sins u commit the more sins u vl feel like to commit. And u vl always try to distort Buddhism and try to create obstacles in the way of the Dharma. You vl be wasting your whole life in chase of such evil activites. Your comments like carbon copy is laughable and shows how silly and ignorant u can be. It also shows why u act in the way u do. When u will read this ur mind will be more frustrated. Your circle of people who nourish such mindset are also sic ! What one sows is wat one vl reap. Even for high money incentive and other lure I wud not stoop so low. What kind of sic belief u hold? Either u are brainwashed or u are a mental case. But dont worry I will pray for your quick mental healing and recovery from blurred vision. I will also pray for those people who have poisoned ur mind and believe such act a success and a cause to pursue. Om mane padme hun!
Dear commenters,
I’m 19 years old, native Austrian (Europe) and interested in bhutanese culture and people. That’s how i found this page and after i did read the article and a major part of the discussion i decided to say somrthing about that issue.
To all people, who ” would sent those people, whoever have done this, to life prison” I want to say that you have to keep in mind that this happened in a place thousands of kilometers away from the next buddhist country. I doubt that the shopkeeper and his customers know about Buddha and how important such statues obviously are to some of you. For them it’s just a nice accessoire, which gives the shop a somehow “exotic” touch. Furthermore you can’t practise all bhutanese moral standarts here in Europe, as I couldn’t do with all of mine in Bhutan. In Europe religious symbols are not that important in every day life, everybody is allowed to practise his/her faith, but must acceppt, that there are other religiouns, which have to exist peacefully next to each other and to the people, who don’t belive in any religion.
But I also want to say something to Tulku Sergyel Bomdhem. Although I aggree with you in some points e.g. that faith doesn’t have to be bound on rituals and statues, you have to acceppt, that there are people, who see those things as an important part of their religion. Of course you are free to post your opinion, but you could have done that in a less offensive way. You cant’t force them to aggree with you, as they can’t force you to aggree with them. In my opinion the best thing to do would have been to write down your meaning in a friendly way and invite people to think about it, instead simply insulting them with every word.
Concluding I want to say that it’s all about respecting each other as equal human beeings. Discussion is important, but it must happen without bad words!
Greetings from beautiful country of Austria to the beautiful kingdom of Bhutan,
Sebastian
Buddhism is just nothing. It is a sick religion. I say this since it produces a product like you all. You all seem to know where others will go and what others are not knowing who you really are. You are following that scrap handed down by stupid Tibetan lamas. You people are simply contradicting yoursefl. You are already in the hell. Which hell are you all talking about. All of you are just nothing but a pure carbon copies of stupid Tibetan culture. A culture of mass killings in the name of religious degeneration and many things. Buddhism although I had been part of it is one of the sick religions. It is more sick than Islam. That is why nobody becomes a buddha despite millions of monks and nuns in the temples across the globe. They cannot become one. If one comes out please let me know. I will shit on him or her and thereby have shitted to all you people’s heads. Just kidding dear brothers. I love kidding you all since you all are so immatured. You all must have ofcourse vegetated so well physically but the mental…….mmmmmmmmmm………just that sick religious mind.
i was realr sad to here so many hash words from the title call truklu.usualy they are the one which common people follow them but i wasshock to hear truklu.hope other truklu r not like u
..i don’t see the issue as an act of insult or defiance but rather, as an act of ignorance..but hey, isn’t this what we are all born into?.a realm of ignorant existence?..i don’t blame the trulku for his opinions either, our history has welcomed even the strangest of mystics with their grossest of attitude.
i am not much of a pious person myself and don’t believe in the concept of God, Heaven or Hell but i do know this; it is not wise to offend others knowingly, not in our life or theirs.
the swiss store was probably unaware of the attention that it’s advertising gimmick would draw, i believe they meant well..after all they are not Buddhists to say the least..but it is really sad to know that such an issue can cause an uproar of hatred..if History(and the Buddha) had taught us anything, it was to be tolerant of each other but from the looks of things, i daresay we have forgotten what it takes in the first place to avoid conflicts.. frankly, i don’t see what the fuss is all about, the person who should be insulted right now is the Buddha and even He has the grace to take the ‘disrespect’ silently, as he would if he were alive today..the picture should draw Pity, not Anger..or are we all forgetting his principles?
Sebastian,
I am not concerned of shoulds and should nots of other people including yours. I am not arguing anything here. And you know the sleeping minds of Bhutanese and people of other parts of the world. One needs to hammer. It is not a question of respecting each other’s religion and all those nonsense. Mankind had been doing this down the centuries and we still fight each other and destroy each other in the name of God or faith and so forth. My point here is not to dilute the truth with beautiful words. I still want to hammer that to have faith in images or God or Buddha or Christ or so forth is one of the shortest and the surest way for stupidity. Whether we like it or not this is the truth. I am not going to compromise anything. I am not arguing but sharing my light. Those who want to receive this light will receive. If it goes against some of your conditionings think that it is not meant for you all.
Bye.
Dear Sebastian,
What you are telling is that it is ok to garland lord buddha with shoes becoz
this is the moral standard of your part of the world. Since u hold so much conviction about it you thought to justify and come in defence of this action.
You say you are a 19 year old teenager and I wonder by that if u hinted that u cud be very wayward, immature and childish in thought to assert such demeaning act.
“To all people, who ” would sent those people, whoever have done this, to life prison” I want to say that you have to keep in mind that this happened in a place thousands of kilometers away from the next buddhist country. ”
Does your defence mean anyone living thousands of kilometres away can have a licence to stoop low and act in grossly undignified way towards lord Buddha. Globalisation is taking place, the world is getting smaller and buddhism is getting very popular as large number of people are embracing it in the west ( without force or material lure). It is a very peaceful dharma and I guess thats why people take advantage of it. Can the shop keeper put a garland of shoes on Quran or lord Jesus statue and put it on public display. Or if he is non-believer then can he put statue of his parents in exhibition and hang garlands of shoes around their neck. Cud u do it ? and wud u feel so much conviction and jump to its defence. I have been to Europe and I know that the people of Europe are smart enough to understand the difference between a garland of shoes and a garland of flowers.
“I doubt that the shopkeeper and his customers know about Buddha and how important such statues obviously are to some of you. For them it’s just a nice accessoire, which gives the shop a somehow “exotic” touch. ”
Nice try ! But again you imply as if no one in Swiss have any knowledge of buddha and Buddhism. Mind you, there are large number of Buddhists of Swiss national and so many more have atleast some idea of it.
What u mean by ‘some of you’ ? Please, the statue is important not just to ‘some bhutanese’ as u indicated but to all milions and millions of buddhists worldwide and even to so many non-buddhist too.
How can u suggest this businessman shopkeeper does not know what statue he bought. Wud u buy a thing not knowing what u bought.
“Furthermore you can’t practise all bhutanese moral standarts here in Europe, as I couldn’t do with all of mine in Bhutan. ”
Like I said you are suggesting that the moral standard in Austria is to humilate lord buddha who signify universal peace and compassion. Even at 19, I think u cant be this ridiculous. My 13 year old nephew has alot more sensibilities and understanding than you. I think this is not the Austrian culture that u are trying to represent. Any Austrian would be in shame to hear this weird statement.
Furthermore, not only all bhutanese protest it but all decent people in different parts of the world disapprove such incident. This include people of Swiss and Austrian nationals too.
Please note well, since u failed in your all eagerness to justify, that the first person to bring this to light is a horrified Indian tourist family and of different faith – not bhutanese or buddhist.
“In Europe religious symbols are not that important in every day life, everybody is allowed to practise his/her faith, but must acceppt, that there are other religiouns, which have to exist peacefully next to each other and to the people, who don’t believe in any religion.”
Here you are contradicting urself. Now u are saying everybody is allowed to his/her faith but must exist peacefully. Do you know Buddhism is one of the major religions of the world. And that His Holiness the Dalai Lama was voted more popular than Pope in Germany. Since u now acknowledge there is multi faith in europe and must exist peacefully. Are u implying garlanding shoes on Lord Buddha is existing peacefully and being respectful of other faith that u defend such action.
Sorry to say for 19 thats sprouting such an ill informed, ill logical perception of mind. I really feel scared for you and hope that your development of mind will take a course that is fair, open, and with a clear basic understanding of what is actually right and wrong.
“Greetings from beautiful country of Austria to the beautiful kingdom of Bhutan,”
Likewise
why u bother about others? if at all want to bother…bother to forgive everyone who had commited mistakes and will be commiting in the future too…i think that is real trulku, real buddha, real human…..namo buddha, pl forgive everyone, their talk about u is never an intentional, its just through ignorance……and i simple superjack forgive u everyone who had commited mistakes and also appreciates those are truely great…pl forgive me if i too had commited mistakes…
super jack I am not going to forgive anyone of you. I am not a Christain who gorgives. I am not going to forgive you all since I am nobody. Even if I don’t forgive you all nothing will happen. I am not a Trulku who claims that it is a blasphemy if someone goes against him. He may go to hell or so forth. I was simply stating the fact.
Well Guys!
Stop it now. It was just a discussion. It is none of our business to prove right or wrong. But it brought some light unto us. That is it and nothing more. Just forget it once and for all now.
So u are back mindu dorje = mr bhomdhen ! I knew u wud.
Wat u mean its just a discussion and not anyone’s concern. How cud it be for you who lauds and supports hanging of shoes around lord buddha.
Dont try to act like a wise guy that u are not.
There are many good christians around the world and practising that faith is all very fine. The problems start when people like u, a christian convert, tries to create disharmony and division in the society. People like you think urself over smart, very educated, modern and look down on those practising buddhism primitive and full of superstitions. Thats ur level of ignorance and stupidity. U tried to impersonate as a tulku and defend something undefendable. U tried to fool people when u dont even know the ABC of being a tulku. You must have felt very proud about it like ur fanatic evangical mentors. I know many such fanatics spread rumours that in bhutan and mongolia christians heads are chopped off and are mercilessly persecuted. These lies wud only stop when u all bhutanese are converted to christians. Muslims fanatics use force and violence and christian fanatics use all kinds of lure. Is this the strenght of such religions that one has to use a sword and bribe to convert people? Y dont u people respect others ability to reason and think and act on their free choice. Y are u people hell bent to exploit poor and vulnerable people. Is this the teachings of your doctrines?
Mindu dorje seems more like ur real name. U are a coward like I said and u will remain a coward person and will always indulge in negative actions. This is the meaning of christianity for you. Bribing and force conversion must not be allowed anywhere in the world and that goes in bhutan too.