Проект ООН и ARC:Many Heavens, One Earth - буддийские общины

We are living on a planet where the environment is deteriorating, and where many of the natural resources are increasingly being stretched. This is often seen as an external issue, but in the Buddhist teaching  (translated as “our habitat is created by our hearts”) it is taught that our environment is caused by the “shared action” or “karma” of humankind.

Following from this teaching, Buddhism believes that the only way to begin changing our existing environment, is to change our inner mind. But how can people’s minds be open to change when they are already lost in the pursuit of high-consumption lifestyles? How can such people’s spiritual realm and sense of social responsibility be enhanced? We believe that this is the shared responsibility of the world's Religions and that the Shanghai Buddhist community should also make our own commitment.

Increasing destruction of the natural environment and climate change are probably the biggest global challenges to human development and to the welfare of all life on earth. ... We believe it is therefore a time when the major religions of the world must take a lead - sharing their wisdom, their insights and their hopes, and working through their faithful to address these issues in a holistic and comprehensive way. ...

The temple was destroyed during the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Fortunately the jade Buddha statues were saved and a new temple was built on the present site in 1928. It was named the Jade Buddha Temple. …
Although the history of the Jade Buddha Temple is not very long, the old-time and classical architectural style makes the temple unique and inimitable in this modern city.

May 19, 2010:

GANDAN MONASTERY, ULAAN BAATAR. Mongolian Buddhists today announced the first draft of a Long Term Plan to protect the environment.

The Eight Year Action Plan will include promoting the use of traditional construction practices for monasteries, providing solar energy to monastic communities, raising public awareness on forest fires, educating young monks and members of the lay community on environmental practices, reducing waste, and looking for the ancient ecological teachings that can be found in the ancient sutras which were hidden during the 60 years of communist rule last century.

This first version of the Eight Year Plan was discussed by an assembly of some 55 lamas and nuns from all over the country. They were attending the Second Compassion and Conservation Conference at Gandan monastery in Ulaan Baatar today. The meeting was hosted by the Gandantegchinlin Monastery and organized by the Tributary Fund with the assistance of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), the World Bank, the Government of the Netherlands and the Mongolian Buddhist community.

The monks will spend a further session tomorrow discussing the ideas and timescales, and many intend to return to their monasteries and come up with a full draft of an Eight Year Plan within the next 12 months. Link here for our latest blog - about a new vegetarianism movement in Tibetan Buddhism.

Context of the Mongolian Plan

It is the latest in a series of commitments by faiths around the world to protect the environment, as part of the ARC/UNDP programme to find ways to incorporate care for the environment into how believers around the world act and work and think, for generations to come. The UN has called it “the biggest civil society movement to prevent climate change.”

The first 30 plans – made by a variety of traditions from nine major world faiths - were launched and announced at Windsor Castle in November 2009, by Prince Philip, founder of ARC, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, in advance of the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen the following month.

For the Baha’is, Daoists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Shinto and Sikhs a single overarching plan was created, with various traditions and communities taking it and adapting it for their own needs. The Buddhists and Christians took a different approach, with each tradition creating a plan that would be special to itself. Although only one Buddhist plan was launched at Windsor – by the Shanghai Buddhists, who plan to roll out their initiatives throughout China, and who had their China launch last month – this Mongolian plan is the second.
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What is included in the Plan?

The key points so far are:

• Monks will be tasked to research and study the traditional construction practices of monasteries. They will then use these for new and renovated buildings, and teach their finding to others.

• A century ago there were taboos in certain sacred places in Mongolia which included avoiding digging in certain places, not polluting rivers, cutting trees, not destroying grass roots nor disturbing nests or killing animals unnecessarily. During their ceremonies at sacred sites monks will revisit some of these, and educate the community about the traditional environmental practices.

• Monastic fortune tellers will encourage people to rehabilitate threatened environments, plant trees and clean river sites to improve their fortunes.

• The traditional practice of liberating animals as an act of compassion will be revived.

• Blue silk khadag scarves are often offered to mountain spirits and left on ovoos, or stone piles. The problem is that when tied around living trees they can stifle their growth, and they last for many years in the countryside. Monks will advocate biodegradeable khadags and collaborate with shopkeepers, media and others on conveying messages to communities.

• Monks will continue to look for the sacred texts or sutras about the environment, many of which were lost under communism. Now, of Mongolia’s 600 plus sacred sites in Mongolia, at least 280 have rediscovered their own associated sutras. The monks believe that more might be found. Monks will collect them, publish them in modern Mongolian and talk to the relevant local communities about what they mean.

В 18-19 веках в Монголии функционировали небольшие передвижные монастыри. В 1809 г. специальная школа для изучения высшей» буддийской догматики при монастыре Чжебцзун-Дамбо Хутухта выделилась в особый монастырь Гандан, названный так в честь одноименного монастыря в Тибете. Со временем Гандан стал главным буддийским монастырем Монголии.

Первый храм монастыря Гандан был заложен в 1838 г. пятым главой ламаистской церкви Монголии Цултэм Джигмед Дамби Джанцаном (Chultem-Jigmid-Dambijantsan). Он был построен в основном из дерева, а крыша покрыта золотом. В 1840–1841 гг. построен каменный храм  Важдратары.
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В конце XIX в. монастырь занимал обширную территорию, на которой только монахов-лам жило около четырнадцати тысяч.

В конце 30-х годов ХХ столетия его постигла общая участь всех монастырей страны – он был закрыт. В 1949 г. по просьбе верующих монастырь снова открыли. Гандантекчинлинг был практически отстроен заново

Мы надеемся, что Вы, сделав обращение к руководству компании «Евраз Груп С.А.», даст ей понять, что наш небольшой монастырь - это дело и забота не только горстки верующих,

нужно съездить в Иволгинский дацан к Пандито Хамбо ламе Д.Аюшееву. Он официально является главой буддистов России.
Он состоит в Высшем межрелигиозном совете при правительстве РФ. У него хорошие взаимоотношения с В.Путиным. Это единственный вариант.

Хонгорма, Вам нужно съездить в Иволгинский дацан к Пандито Хамбо ламе Д.Аюшееву. Он официально является главой буддистов России.
Он состоит в Высшем межрелигиозном совете при правительстве РФ. У него хорошие взаимоотношения с В.Путиным. Это единственный вариант. Он строгий, но справедливый человек. Если Вас притесняют, он реально поможет.

Знаем мы этот "монастырь". Настоятель, бывший КГБ-шник,   как монахом стал - непонятно
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Так что Хонгорма, бегите вы из этого "монастыря" быстрее в традиционную общину.