Muslims hold alms giving for Buddhist monks

[Aurore]

The Buddhist practices giving alms, so does the Muslims and in fact so does all other religion. What is so awesome about this is 2 religions is they are able to find similarities to improve inter-religious relation.

This reminds me of the quote below:-
"A great relationship is about two things:
First, appreciating the similarities and
Second, respecting the differences."

[sonamdhargey]

A good effort to promote inter-religious harmony. This should be an act to be shared and done in every religious sects to encourage others to respect each other's religion and accepting that all religions only want to bring goodness for all. But it is sad that within the same faiths, there are war and conflicts that divides them.

[Tenzin Malgyur]

These are such marvelous pictures which paint a perfect scene of inter-religion harmony and respect for others' belief and practice. Even though the Muslims did not have the practice of alms offering to monks in their religion, the members of the Maligawatte Islamic Institute invited some Buddhist monks to their premise to conduct the ceremony. So much difference from pictures I seen of non Shugden monks stoning the monastery of Shugden practitioners. May there be more tolerance and understanding between religions. Thank you for sharing this piece of positive news.

[fruven]

This is a very nice example of respecting another person's belief and practice. It benefits both the givers and the receivers. Not only one is practicing giving one also practices respect of other traditions. It builds relations in the community we are living in. As we are live in a more interconnected world our actions to ourselves and others count more and more. We want respect therefore we need to respect others. We start by walking our own talk.

[rossoneri]

Nice to know and see such a scene of both very different religion coming together. Although both are very different in terms of belief and practice but there are being pull together by a single word 'harmony'. By accepting the differences of others and understand it should be the way of promoting harmonious of man-kind, war and violence doesn't work after so many thousands of years, isn't the time we should explore for another idea which is much more beneficial?

[hope rainbow]

I have found this quote by Swami Agnivesh, which says much:

"Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.
But religions, as religions, can never be at peace with each other.
To enable religions to be instruments for peace we need to enable, first, religious communities to progress from religion to spirituality."