Burma Buddhists and Bad Kings

Burma Buddhists and Bad Kings

Anawrahta established the first unified Burma
He succeeded by propagating Buddhism by Theravada
He needed the Tipitaka to standardize Sasana
King Manuha denied Anarahta’s request
He was duly dethroned and detested.

King Narathu killed his father Alaungsithu by suffocation
Murdered his brother Min Shin Saw by poisoning
Insulted the monks by lying
Pantthaku Mahathera admonished him
Narathu was beheaded by the Sri Lankese king
(Hence he is known as the “Kalakya Min”.)

King Shwe Nan Kyawt Shin was dethroned by Mohnyin Shan
Ava was over-run and ransacked by the northern men
Tho Han Bwa was proclaimed as King of Ava by his father
He ruled the country with an iron fist and torture
Men, women and monks suffered thereafter.

Min Gyi Yan Naung came to their rescue
He killed Tho Han Bwa and his men in retinue
By showing Burmese swordsmanship anew
He showed his moral and manual courage true
He renounced the kingship and manhood too.

U Ottama the monk opened the Burmese eyes
To fight for the people’s rights the British denied
He was imprisoned and disrobed
But he resisted and came out still robed
He instilled in the Burmese a hope
They fought for self determination in a ready mode.

U Wisara followed in the U Ottama’s footsteps
He too was arrested
He fought defrocking by fasting
British could not destroy his determination
He died after five months in incarceration
His statue was erected after independence in celebration.

The Japanese Fascists ruled Burma here
They ransacked, raided and raped for three years
They too were anti-Buddhist to be clear
They paid no respects to the Buddhist monks
They were chased out and flunked.

General Ne Win had two faces
One was religious to be seen by the populace
Another was murderous to all men and monks in case
They were opposing his grip on power base.

He tried to unite different sects of monks in Burma
By sponsoring seminars and selecting Sangha Nayakas
He even erected a pagoda by the name of “Wizaya”
But he disrobed and destroyed many Sanghas
He ordered his secret agents to persecute in camera.

Now SPDC is doing the same thing
Befitting the lackeys of Fascists and sons of U Ne Win
They are killing Buddhist monks and destroying
Monasteries, pagodas and Buddhist cultural things
They will certainly end in A-wi-zi hell
Like all anti-Buddhist criminals before them have dwelled.

But, it is a tragedy for the country
As it has lost the religion and democracy
Only political power matters to the SPDC
People have to fight hard and long from this tyranny
Encouraging thing is that most peoples support this struggle
Except the Russian and China double
Victory is with the Sangha and people
The fight will be through!
Hold on, Carry on!

Aesclepius B