What Buddhists do at Christmas - on the BBC
Dharmacharinis Munisha and Vajramudita, Vajramudita's family and the FWBO's Manchester Buddhist Centre all appeared on BBC1 TV last Sunday morning (7th December).Their short series 'Christmas Voices' is taking a very short look each week at how people of other faiths celebrate Christmas. This week it was the Buddhists' turn.
Munisha says: "The interviewers asked me what Buddhists think about Jesus. I was sorry they didn't use the bit where I said most Buddhists worldwide have probably never heard of him! But it was very good that they featured Manchester's Chinese Buddhist temple as well as us. After all, minority ethnic groups account for about 60% of UK Buddhists but are very marginalised. (In case you wonder, the Chinese Buddhists were invited to be interviewed but none was willing.)"
Click here to see the programme on iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fzb7y/Christmas_Voices_Series_2_Episode_2.
Skip ahead to about 18 minutes – and stop when you see Munisha! (Note - this link may stop working after Dec 20th)
Labels: Interfaith, Manchester, media
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3 Comments:
I thought the video was a nice snippet of how Buddhists celebrate Xmas
hey - fyi people outside the UK can't watch this ....see message below. sp
Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you. Why?
If you are in the UK and see this message please read this advice.
One thing we Buddhists could do on the 25th is celebrate Dr Ambekar's burning of the Manusmrti.
Jayarava
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