"If I go to Bagan, what will I see...?"

While many foreign monks have benefited greatly from the Dhamma of the Golden Land, a surprisingly small number have responded back with an openness of reciprocate at a time when the country is truly in need. Ashin Sarana is one of those whose concern has not been on his own comfort or even safety, but rather the welfare of the Burmese people. In the following short multi-lingual post which he asked us to share, he reflects on how the sacred pilgrimage spots in the country have now been riddled by gunfire and stained by terrorism.

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If I go to Kyaik Hti Yoe, Bagan, or another sacred place,

What will I see?

A Buddha?

Or a bullet?

I thought UNESCO protects Bagan... How?

* The picture with Golden Rock is from Myeik, not Kyaik Hti Yoe.

ဦးဇင်းက ကျိုက်ထီးရိုး၊ ပုဂံ စသည့်

မြင့်မြတ်တဲ့ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာနေရာ သွားဖူးရင်

ဘာ တွေ့မလဲ....

ဘုရား တွေ့မလား။

ကျည်အစစ် တွေ့မလား။

* ပုံမှာ ကျိုက်ထီးရိုး မဟုတ်ပါဘူးလို့ သိပါတယ်။ ကျိုက်ထီးရိုး တကယ်သွားရင် ဘာတွေ့မလဲလို့ မေးတာပါ။

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