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We are happy to announce our "Statement of Intention: Provision of Disability Access To Places of Worship for the Buddhist Community". We thank Di Cousens for helping to put this together and she says:
Being able to get into a temple is a basic expectation of everyone within the Buddhist community. Temples provide Buddhist teachings and are the places for rituals and important life events including ceremonies for the deceased. They act as community centres and they enable connectedness within the Buddhist community. They provide access to teachers and the spaces themselves are thought to retain the blessings of the
events they host (The full statement may be read in the Foreword of the publication)..
We have today written to the Nepal Buddhist Federation about this tragic matter which was reported in the Buddhist Channel.
LETTER TO NEPAL BUDDHIST FEDERATION
Dear President and Committee,
We are writing to you regarding the recent horrifying case of the gang rape of a young Nepalese nun. According to reports in the media, she was violently raped to near the verge of death, and still is extremely traumatized.
In response to the news article “Officials bar Buddha from restaurant name” published in The West newspaper on 28th June 2011, the Buddhist Council of Western Australia’s statement to The West was as follows:
The Buddhist Council of WA feels that the use of the name of the Buddha or for that matter any religious or respected figure should only be used when it is appropriate and respectful to do so.