I don't need to read any website that you mention, as of course it must be an anti-Buddhist propaganda. You must know that Hinduism also teaches you to not kill and eat animals. Not only that, it also tells you to worship animals, which Buddhism of course doesn't.
The Thais and the Vietnamese are even more Buddhist than the Cambodians. For example, all the lay Thai and Vietnamese Buddhists observe at least 1 day per month of vegetarianism, which the Cambodian lay Buddhists don't. The Vietnamese even have a famous Buddhist monk, by the name of Thich Nhat Hanh, who now lives in France, and who's famous all over the world, second only to the Dalai Lama. Did the Thais and the Vietnamese also lose their lands the way the Cambodians did?? How is it that not eating meat is the cause of your losing your land?? Besides, the Canbodian people, whether in Cambodia or in Kampuchea Krom, always eat meat. About pror-hok. The majority of Cambodian peasants live in areas far away from the fishing grounds (lakes and rivers) and hunting grounds. Therefore they must have a mean to preseve meat, in this case it's the fish, all year round. The pror-hok is the mean. Yeah the pror-hok is the preserved meat for the Cambodian peasants. Other nations also have their mean of preserving meat. All is in the form of salted meat. Just like the pro-hok. In the absence of freezers, the salt is the savior. Stop your ridiculous attempt at self-aggrandizement by uttering contempts at the pror-hok. Just answer my questions in that post of mine. If you can't, then just say so, and stop blaming Buddhism for the ills of Cambodia. Grow up, and stop blaming other nations or things for what you did and/or do. On Aug 2, 3:33 pm, Neak Kampuchea <[email protected]> wrote: > Pheng Kim Vong. > Please,you should clearly understand, but you need to read this > Bisddhis website below first before you read my text. Thank you. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_Buddhism#Animals_in_the_Jatakas > > Because Buddhism had come, everything had been going in reverse as > it’s taught Khmer not to kill animal for food or for any other > purpose, so that majority poor Khmer Buddhist believers eat dead meat > and spoil-salted fish (prahock). There were neither Khmer butchers nor > Khmer fisherman. But there had still existed a lot people, who needed > fresh meat or fresh fishes and there had been questions how to get > them without slaughtering animals? > > This is the answer, why Khmer religious leaders and Khmer politicians > at that time had closed their eyes to Vietnamese and Chinese > settlements at the immigration sea gates in Kampuchea Krom delta land, > since 300 years ago, because these people could catch fresh fish and > kill animal for supplying Khmer food markets > > This is the reason why Khmer Krom monks, at that time, had been > preaching to the local not to harm those Vietnamese immigrants, let > them come for committing sin for us so that we, Khmer could get fresh > fish and fresh meat as needed in the market for making foods offering > to monks. They thought that Vietnamese and Chinese settlement had been > important for Khmer so that Khmer could be maintaining Buddhism > without committing sin of killing for meat at all. > > Businesses, which had been growing up, had encouraged more and more > Vietnamese and Chinese to come and continued, in million more. And > then there had been the arrival of French colonial, at which > Vietnamese and Viet-Chinese-Khmer integrated population had already > been reached three times more than genuine Khmers, mostly inhabited in > remote farmer groups in Kampuchea Krom (actual South Vietnam). > > At that time, French colonial had also openly received million and > million new Chinese arrivals with no need to carryout any paper works > at all for just a quick fulfill empty economic growth in Indo-China as > the whole, because those local indigenous Khmer, Lao even Viet were > only farmers. > > There have been, all over Kampuchea Krom, business agglomerated > concentrations into Chinese/Viet towns, from which most Khmer > individual pulled themselves out one by one due to culture chock of > seeing animals killing for food everyday in their surrounding > residences. They have been eagerly moving to settle in remote farm > land for being able to serenely continue practicing Buddhism. > > This has shown that Buddhist Khmer culture have been retreated in the > face of social multi-ethnic integration in which Chen+Khmer+Yuon > hybrid has been turning main stream Vietnamese. > > There have been number of Khmer individuals that could live along side > with them but later on, their children have been melted into > Vietnamese as million Chinese did. > > This Vietnamese social integration acceptance is the main factor of > great importance for Vietnamese population multiplication growth, > which has been so far 5 times more than genuine Khmers, which would > slowly extinct then warmish away in a few decades ahead. This was how > Khmer Krom is becoming minority Khmer ethnic on their own land. > > But their young Khmer generations are angry and pointing finger to > Cambodian mainland leaders, including King Norodom Sihanouk, without > realizing that this disastrous fault had been committed by their own > Khmer Krom ancestors in the past at the Southern land. > > Is this the true fact of Vietnamese invasion? Or just Vietnamese and > Chinese economic immigration settlement since 300 years ago before > immigration law had been known to be adopted in relevance to > internationals > > Unfortunately, Khmer people had been 90% Buddhism followers. They were > self-malnutrition-inflicted, because they avoided killing for fresh > meat. They just eat spoiled salted fish (prahock) or dead meat. They > never raise pig, chicken but only cows and buffaloes not for killing > for meat, but only for farm works, they will eat their meat only when > those animals die from what ever the causes, even from disease. They > turned idiots on blaming each other as they have no intelligence to > use for solving problems facing them. > > At the end of French colonial, how Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk > could oppose France, that give Independence to South Vietnam, if > minority Khmer ethnic, in Kampuchea Krom was 5 time less than > Vietnamese (Viet-Chinese-Khmer/hybrid), as following the existence of > universal human rights provision and democracy principal. > There was no map for talking with France at that moment, Khmer said > verbally their land and Vietnamese said orally their land, the fact > was base on what? > > The answer was base on population number and their occupied lands of > Khmer and Vietnamese: Le result is Khmer-1, Vietnamese-5. This is the > reason why the King Norodom Sihanouk, and Hun Sen could not oppose > against its. > > And please be recognized that eating spoiled meat or fish for > genaration like this > make people more and more ignorant. > > On Aug 2, 12:20 pm, Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Kampuchea Krom became a part of Vietnam because the French gave it to > > Vietnam, not because Buddhism was telling the Khmer people not to kill > > annimals for food, not because Khmer Krom monks preached to the locals > > not to harm > > them (the Vietnamese, presumably). > > > Isn't it ridiculous to claim that you lost your land because your > > religion tells you to not kill animals for food?? Isn't it ridiculous > > to declare that you lost your land because your monks tell you to not > > harm the occupiers?? Not killing animals for food has nothing to do > > with your losing your land. It can't be true that your monks tell you > > to let foreigners occupy your land without resistance. > > > Just answer my questions in that post of mine. If you can't then just > > say so and > > stop trying to fabricate outrageous imaginations to use to blame > > Buddhism for the mis-fortunes of Kampuchea Krom. > > > On Aug 1, 3:09 pm, Neak Kampuchea <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Buddhism is telling Khmer people not to kill annimals for food, so > > > that is why Khmer krom had closed their eyes for Vietnamese setlement > > > in South delta land. > > > At that time Khmer Krom monks had preached to the locals not to harm > > > them, let them come as much as they wanted for committing sin for us, > > > So that we Khmer could have fresh mead and fish for making food for > > > our monks. > > > > Now it's too late, what are you going to do other than wrongly > > > blaiming Sihanouk and Hun Sen. You should be pointing fingers to you > > > ancesters is more logic. > > > > Please don't be angry to Neak-Kampuchea who just wants to revail your > > > reality. > > > Read this website below: > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_Buddhism#Animals_in_Buddhist_...Hide > > > quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
