Saint - February 26, 2008

Editor James Shaheen,

Dear Editor of Tricycle and Associate Editors,

I was shocked and speechless at the out set to see a picture of “Gandhi’s” and
article related to him on the latest issue of Tricycle. I would like to ask you a
simple question, please help me understand “is this tricycle” a Buddhist
Journal/magazine or a Hindu periodical or are there efforts to sabotage “Tricycle
by Hindus”??.

No conscious human on earth will ever make any effort to write about Gandhi on a
Buddhist literature, as it is demeaning and betrayal to our great Lord Buddha and
certainly a great insult to Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, the greatest Buddhist revivalist
after Lord Buddha.

This man Gandhi believed, practiced and preached human discrimination based on
color, job and families??. He believed in preserving and practicing caste based
society, where one human claims to be higher than the other, he strongly believed
in untouchability where people treat other human as a creature below animals.
Gandhi strongly believed in Caste discrimination and Varnashrama.

The amount of literature available on every evil aspect of Gandhi, his own words
and own writings are available everywhere on the internet, besides books and
documented texts, images and videos.

A man who is 360 degrees apart to the Buddhist believes dusted off from shelves to
decorate a Buddhist magazine run by respected people of America in itself is a
great insult me and millions of my fellow Buddhists and Buddha’s followers.

Buddhism was constantly attacked, Buddha’s teachings were constantly sabotaged by

Hindus throughout the human civilization. Hindu’s like muslims and other invaders
of India in the ancient period destroyed Buddhist shrines, burned the Buddhist
monks alive, Sangha's were brought to ground, Buddhist people were chased out of
their domiciles besides got killed in huge numbers.

In such cruelty and savagery hindu’s will take the top place, besides all of those
invaders who attacked Buddhists.

Hinduism in truth was always sabotaged Buddhist teachings and practices, they
always try to own Buddhist belongings as if it belongs to hindus. And one of such
people is Gandhi, he was without any doubt belong to a society that is a constant
threat and humiliation to Buddhists.

If there is a celebration or tribute that Tricycle wants to promote, you must take
Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, the true Buddhist revivalist of India and the world, the savior
of Dalits and poor in India and the most importantly a great Human, almost
considered as the modern Buddha by hundreds of millions of Indians.

Leaving Dr.Ambedkar behind and putting up Gandhi on your front page is just a
shame to this humanity let alone to the Buddhist society. I hope, I can be of any
help to further provide you all the evidences you may need to understand about why
this is not good for Tricycle like magazines.

I sincerely hope you will consider my appeal to avoid Gandhi on Tricycle, a

Buddhist should believe and practice what our Lord Buddha taught us, I am hopeful
to see your response and immediate actions in this regard.

Many thanks,
In Dhamma,
Dr.Saint, USA

Whether you are going to accept or ignore, I will post this in my blog as
thousands of the world Buddhists are going to read it over there, but I believe
you will be Buddhist enough to give it a thought.