2007年5月6日日曜日

Islam

From newspaper 29/April/07
There was suicide bomd attacks which uses a car bomb in Karbala where is holy ground of Shiite Muslim. The attacks claimed at least 60 lives and wounded 170.
The main cause of this attack is background of Sunni Mslims and Shiite Muslism relations.

My opinion
I often hear about Islam from newspaper and broadcast. Then I have seen tragic scene many times.
So I know there are lots of bomb attacks but I have no idea about why do they attack and why do they repeat same kind of attacks again and again.

Buddhism

I think most of Japanese don't so much care about our religion in our dairy life.
However, we defnitely connect with Buddhism in our whole life.
For example, if one of my family die, we will cremate a body and call a monk to read a sutras.
It is typical Japanese funeral.
Many people receive company holidays during the Bon period and go back to their hometowns. Because, It is believed these spirits return to their families during the period, so we must go back to our hometown to comfort these spirits.
Japanese supiritual also connect with Buddhism.
Actually, we tend to believe "Gokuraku" . Especially, "Mujyou" is heart of Japanese spirits.
It means everything gonna be changing and goes around.