Buddhayogi Ajit Prasad has said that the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar is an ethic issue. But there were concerted efforts by vested interests to make it a religious issue and spread the canard that there were terrorist groups among Buddhists, he said. Addressing a meeting of the Kollam unit of the Rationalists Association of India here on Wednesday, he said that Buddhism was not a religion and it did not have a holy book. Buddha’s teachings compiled by disciple Ananda were the available text.
He said the core principle of the teachings was to realise Buddha within oneself through constant reformation. “We should not believe everything and anything what people say. These should be properly analysed and tested and then believed or accepted,” he said.
