Gandhi On Tricyle A Buddhist Magazine, Does Not Make Sense!

Saint - February 26, 2008 Editor James Shaheen, Dear Editor of Tricycle and Associate Editors, I was shocked and speechless at the out set to see a picture of “Gandhi’s” and article related to him on the latest issue of Tricycle. I would like to ask you a simple question, please help me understand “is this tricycle” a Buddhist Journal/magazine or a Hindu periodical or are there efforts to sabotage “Tricycle by Hindus”??. No conscious human on earth will ever make any effort to write about Gandhi on a Buddhist literature, as it is demeaning and betrayal to our great Lord Buddha and certainly a great insult to Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, the greatest Buddhist revivalist after Lord Buddha. This man Gandhi believed, practiced and preached human discrimination based on color, job and families??. He believed in preserving and practicing caste based society, where one human claims to be higher than the other, he strongly believed in untouchability where people treat other human as a creature below animals. Gandhi strongly believed in Caste discrimination and Varnashrama. The amount of literature available on every evil aspect of Gandhi, his own words and own writings are available everywhere on the internet, besides books and documented texts, images and videos. A man who is 360 degrees apart to the Buddhist believes dusted off from shelves to decorate a Buddhist magazine run by respected people of America in itself is a great insult me and millions of my fellow Buddhists and Buddha’s followers. Buddhism was constantly attacked, Buddha’s teachings were constantly sabotaged by Hindus throughout the human civilization. Hindu’s like muslims and other invaders of India in the ancient period destroyed Buddhist shrines, burned the Buddhist monks alive, Sangha's were brought to ground, Buddhist people were chased out of their domiciles besides got killed in huge numbers. In such cruelty and savagery hindu’s will take the top place, besides all of those invaders who attacked Buddhists. Hinduism in truth was always sabotaged Buddhist teachings and practices, they always try to own Buddhist belongings as if it belongs to hindus. And one of such people is Gandhi, he was without any doubt belong to a society that is a constant threat and humiliation to Buddhists. If there is a celebration or tribute that Tricycle wants to promote, you must take Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, the true Buddhist revivalist of India and the world, the savior of Dalits and poor in India and the most importantly a great Human, almost considered as the modern Buddha by hundreds of millions of Indians. Leaving Dr.Ambedkar behind and putting up Gandhi on your front page is just a shame to this humanity let alone to the Buddhist society. I hope, I can be of any help to further provide you all the evidences you may need to understand about why this is not good for Tricycle like magazines. I sincerely hope you will consider my appeal to avoid Gandhi on Tricycle, a Buddhist should believe and practice what our Lord Buddha taught us, I am hopeful to see your response and immediate actions in this regard. Many thanks,

In Dhamma, Dr.Saint, USA Whether you are going to accept or ignore, I will post this in my blog as thousands of the world Buddhists are going to read it over there, but I believe you will be Buddhist enough to give it a thought.