REPORT ON Attack against Kabul University

Case 04/2015: ISIS

REPORT ON Attack against Kabul University

March 24, 2018

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights is an autonomous juridical and ethical body that responds to the Buddhist mandate to protect and liberate all sentient beings;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights reports on the terrorist suicide bombing carried out in front of the Kabul University, where around 30 people died while the Persian New Year was celebrated, when an explosive vest was detonated in the crowd;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights takes into consideration that the terrorist attack has been claimed by ISIS;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that the new terrorist attack occurred 200 meters from the Karte Sakhi mausoleum, which had already been attacked by ISIS in 2016, when 18 people were murdered in the framework of the Shiite religious celebration of Ashura;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights agrees with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai that the terrorist attack was a crime against humanity;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights claims that peace in Afghanistan is continually being threatened by ISIS and Taliban guerrilla, these groups being representatives of False Islam for having caused the death of thousands of defenseless civilians despite the fact that the Afghan government has proposed starting peace talks;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights states that while the US invasion of Afghanistan was a crime against peace, this fact does not provide any kind of legitimate excuse or ethical support for terrorist crimes;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights perceives that ISIS and the Taliban would control almost half of the Afghan territory, which requires asking for international aid;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights condemns all kinds of violence, which is why the terrorist attack on Kabul University is declared as a Supreme Offense against International Morality and the Sanctity of life;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights affirms that the Islamic People is being defamed, persecuted and destroyed by pseudo-Muslim terrorist organizations.

Always with spirit of Reconciliation (Maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Act on Norway’s Whaling

Case 40-2018: Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Act on Norway’s Whaling

On March 15, 2018, an International Repudiation Act is issued to the Minister for Fisheries Per Sandberg of the Government of Norway. He publicly stated that he will authorize the hunting of 1278 whales in just one year, thus violating the International Customary Law established by the International Whaling Commission that prohibits whaling. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights makes this repudiation because in recent years Norway would even be doing an ecocide and extermination of whales much worse than the one that Japan is carrying out.

While it is recognized that Norway claims historical and cultural rights in the practice of whaling, these rights are not above the right to life and peace that non-human persons have, especially when these beings possess high levels of feeling and intelligence, such as whales and dolphins. In addition, as with human rights, Norway should learn that International Law is constantly evolving, so that it has the duty of accepting the agreements contributing to its progress. Therefore, it is confirmed that while it is supported the fact that the government of Norway continues its great ecological system of sustainable development in favor of forestation and the lowering of carbon emissions, such country is also required to respect International Law and the rights of non-human beings, especially beings with evolved consciousnesses. Otherwise Norway will be disrespectful of the sacredness of life, committing crimes against nature. Ergo, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights dictates that every government carrying out whaling, such as Japan, Norway and Iceland will be carrying out acts of ecocide, crimes against nature and violations of International Law.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Notification on the Imperial-Way Buddhism

Case 40-2018: Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Notification on the Imperial-Way Buddhism

On March 10, 2018, an International Notification to Japanese Sanghas is written due to the False Buddhism that was practiced in Japan during its imperialist era, when several schools and Buddhist lineages adhered to the Japanese government in its crusade or holy war against the rest of the nations of the world, even collaborating with Nazism in the framework of the Second World War. Several schools and lineages, including Soto and Rinzai, would not only have supported the genocidal war and crimes against humanity carried out by the Japanese government, but would also have assisted in the commission of such crimes, revalidating them ethically and spiritually, in the same way that in the contemporary world Ashin Wirathu and the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee have supported the genocide of Myanmar.

Although after the Second World War all Zen schools entered into a generalized amnesia about the Truth of their active complicity with war, in 1992 the Soto Zen lineage issued a Communiqué of Repentance for its active cooperation in militarism, and other Buddhist schools have followed the same example since then. However, the condition of enlightened master has never been cancelled for those people who in the name of Buddhism participated in those crimes against peace. In this way, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee considers it is fundamental to impugn the ethical and spiritual condition of masters who, obsessed with nationalism, have committed crimes through supporting war, since they introduced a perverse and bizarre nihilism within the Spirituality, so that the Buddhist master degree of the following individuals is de facto nullified because of having totally perverted the pacifist doctrine of Siddhartha Gautama:

·        Zen Master Sawaki Kodo of the Soto lineage, for being a soldier and actively supporting militarism, nationalism, imperialism, Japanese violent invasions to other countries, worshiping the Japanese emperor, and including receiving a medal of honor for his work in promoting public interests of the Japanese Empire;

·        Zen Master Kumazawa Taizen of the Soto lineage, for calling to kill the enemies as part of the practice;

·        Zen Master Soen Shaku of the Rinzai lineage, for claiming that fighting against Russia was fighting evil and also for considering that the war against enemies of Japan was a compassionate war and an essential part of the spiritual training of Zen Buddhism;

·        Zen Master Nakahara Nantembo of the Rinzai lineage, for assisting in the Japanese war against Russia and also for affirming that there is no practice of enlightened beings that is superior to the practice of compassionately killing;

·        Zen Master Seki Seisetsu of the Rinzai lineage, for promoting the synthesis of Zen and Bushido, teaching that worshiping the emperor is identical to the practice of Mahayana Buddhism, as well as calling for the extermination of the communists;

·        Zen Master Yamamoto of the Rinzai lineage, for training soldiers and for defending the killing of civilians, even claiming that Buddhism allows killing people in the name of maintaining social order;

·        Zen Master Nakajima Genjo of the Rinzai lineage, for actively participating in the Second World War as a soldier, and for carrying out an act of denial of the genocide that took place in China during the massacre of Nanking, where in a few weeks more than 350 thousand people were raped, tortured, killed and beheaded;

·        Zen Master Harada Daiun Sogaku of the Soto and Rinzai lineages, for teaching that the synthesis of Buddhism and War is the manifestation of the supreme wisdom of enlightenment, the king of meditation, considering that the Japanese are a chosen people with the right to control the world through war and death of the enemy;

·        Zen Master Hakuun Yasutani of the Sambo Kyodan lineage, for promoting war, right-wing nationalism, militarism, anti-communism and anti-Semitism, even affirming that not killing the enemy would be betraying compassion;

·        Master Shiio Benkyo of the Jodo lineage, for exposing a defense of Imperial-Way Buddhism as a nationalist cult.

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee affirms that schools and lineages that consider such individuals as enlightened masters or living Buddhas will not only be committing complicity with crimes against humanity and peace, but will also be transmitting a False Buddhism that absolutely betrays the ethical principles and compassionate wisdom founded by Master Siddhartha Gautama. Although the Soto, Rinzai, and Sambo Kyodan lineages have extraordinarily manifested public repentance for their support and complicity with the imperial Japanese militarism of the past, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee affirms that while this is a good first step it would not be sufficient, since restorative justice measures have to be taken in order to repair the damage caused, expelling those who committed international crimes against humanity from the lineage of free and enlightened beings in order to maintain the ethical and spiritual purity of the Way. This means that the kind of apology made by Master Jiun Kubota, of the Zen lineage Sambo Kyodan is a mistake, because he considers that an enlightened master is able to transmit the Dharma and simultaneously have a right-wing ideology in favor of war, discrimination and hatred, without considering that it compromises essentially his spiritual teaching. The International Buddhist Ethics Committee teaches that True Buddhism is a Reconciliation Pathway that contributes to establishing a world of peace, justice, knowledge and ecology, so that any contribution or support to war constitutes a complete betrayal of the Buddhist Path. Indeed, taking refuge in the Buddha-Dharma-Sangha should never be replaced by loyalty to the Ego, the Ideology and the State.

In order for Buddhism to follow the Way of Truth, maintaining itself as an authentic spiritual tradition, the lineages and schools must recognize the fact that a spiritual master who supports Nationalism over Peace will be violating the fundamental ethical principles of Buddhism, thus becoming a false and perverted master, a pseudo-enlightened master. Collaborating with war or with armies is something that intrinsically violates the Buddhist Law, because it associates the Spirituality of the Master Gautama with practices that produce the death of millions of people and that betray the compassionate wisdom of any True Awakening.

On the other hand, some academics stated that such criminal acts of supporting war by Buddhist masters should be understood within the historical cultural framework of great pressure suffered by the spiritual communities (sanghas) during the Meiji Era, when the Shinto cult was reinstated and thousands of Buddhist temples were closed, thousands of statues were destroyed, and Buddhist masters who were critical of the State were persecuted, causing that a large part of the schools survive through the support for the Japanese imperial system. Thus, during the Meiji Era, the Way of Buddhist Zen was replaced by the Imperialist and Militarist State Zen (Kodo Zen), replacing the worship to the Buddha and Dharma with the worship to the Emperor and to the Empire. However, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee confirms that the perversion that occurred in Japanese Buddhism was not born during the Meiji Era, but occurred at the very beginning of the Tokugawa Era (1600-1868), when half a million Buddhist temples were built, keeping complicit silence while the Japanese government committed a holocaust, genocide and total extermination against the Japanese Christian brothers and sisters. In fact, even the Japanese Buddhist temples would have carried out the task of inspecting or evaluating whether the people were Christian. The result of not approving such inspections was the death, which shows that since the seventeenth century the Japanese Buddhism actively participated in genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, totally exterminating the Japanese Christian people.

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee makes this repudiation against the Japanese Buddhist lineages in order to try that history is not repeated again, because although Japan has abandoned its genocidal militarism of crimes against humanity, however, the Japanese government has adopted an ecocidal capitalism of crimes against nature. Even though the lineages and Buddhist schools of Japan are not directly collaborating in these crimes against non-human beings, they are undoubtedly keeping complicit silence in the face of such barbaric acts. The Buddhist Law requires that apprentices, masters and spiritual communes practice active contemplation, compassionate wisdom and humanitarian ethics, performing acts of support and solidarity to all sentient beings. Therefore, it is confirmed the fact that not only those masters and communities that have practiced Imperial-Way Buddhism are repudiated, but are also repudiated all those who are silent against the ecocidal crimes that Japan is committing against non-human beings that are advanced in emotions and intelligence, such as dolphins and whales. Ergo, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee dictates that all spiritual communes (sanghas) that perform acts of direct support or acts of silence in the face of international crimes will be totally violating Buddhist Law.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Proclamation on UN Corruption

Case No. 20/2016: United Nations Organization (ONU) & Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Proclamation on UN Corruption

March 8th, 2018

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights,

Recalling that United Nations (UN), led by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, was condemned by the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights for the serious charges of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes, Corruption, Violation International Human Rights Law, and High Crimes against Peace;

Considering that many of the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes committed by the United Nations (UN) include exploitations, human trafficking and systematic and widespread sexual abuses, which have continued during 2017 when 40 new cases were reported;

Concerned enormously by the cases of sexual abuses undermining the foundational values and principles of the international body;

Deploring that the United Nations' official, the lawyer Alfred de Zayas, who has ties with the Cuban government, scandalously stated that in Venezuela there is no humanitarian crisis and that this idea would be imposed by the USA in order to overthrow Maduro's regime, ignoring that Venezuela is faced with one of the worst catastrophes of refugees in the world, being a crisis as strong as those in Syria and Myanmar;

Analyzing that in 2006 the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso expressed critically that in order to stop poverty and armed conflicts, there would be an end of the corruption and antidemocracy existing at the highest levels of the United Nations (UN), which would be an international institution that would yield to the arrangements of the great nuclear superpowers, which usually control other nations through the UN Security Council;

Taking into consideration that Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, acknowledged that the UN has not done enough early to avoid the horrors that are happening in Burundi, Congo, Myanmar, Syria and Yemen, which would have become prolific slaughterhouses of human beings;

Examining that Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, accused the permanent members of the UN Security Council of being responsible for so much suffering in the world;

I.                  Absolute solidarity is expressed to the thousands of victims who have been killed and raped by the military and civilian members of the UN.

II.               It is declared that crimes against humanity committed by the UN are not outside International Law, so that impunity must be immediately resolved.

III.           UN is condemned for committing High Violations of the Rights of children and women, as it has continued to commit torture and physical and psychical harm to hundreds of the most defenseless people in the world.

IV.           It is confirmed that the UN not only continues to hold corrupt officials, but it is also a structurally tyrannical and undemocratic system that allows a handful of governments to control the fate of the rest of humanity.

V.              It is stated that the UN cannot and must not behave like a non-governmental organization, since it has vast political and economic resources, so it should not only present reports of human rights violations, but should also immediately judge genocides by using all the tools of International Law in order to create a world of peace, justice, education and ecology for all.

VI.           It is stated that as long as the UN does not fulfill its function, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights will have more and more humanitarian importance in the world.

VII.       The teachings of Siddhartha Gautama are recalled as well as the Maitriyana Spirituality, whose compassionate wisdom has the ability to save humanity through supreme ethical leadership.

Written two thousand six hundred years after the founding and independence of the Great Buddhist Nation.

President and Judge: H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

Act on Lula da Silva

Case No. 26-2017: “NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE”

Act on Lula da Silva

On March 8, 2018, an Act of International Repudiation for Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was made, since he publicly affirmed that he will support the candidacy of Inácio Lula da Silva to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights makes this repudiation because Lula da Silva has recently been sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption offenses, as well as being tried in many other criminal cases related to crimes during the exercise of his Presidency in Brazil. In fact, the Brazilian criminal justice and police would be preparing the arrest of Lula da Silva to serve the 12 years of sentence. Even if it were recognized that the government of Lula da Silva reduced poverty and social inequality in Brazil, this does not mean that this individual should not be condemned for his crimes, much less that his criminal acts should be ignored and endorsed with a Peace Prize. Carrying out this kind of support acts, such as those of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, only contributes to discredit what peace really means: to live in righteousness. Therefore, it is confirmed that Lula da Silva not only should not receive a Nobel Peace Prize in the future, but also that the UNESCO Peace Prize previously received by him should be annulled. Ergo, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights dictates that any government carrying out social welfare measures but simultaneously having high levels of corruption will be no more than a populist, undemocratic and illegal government. Defending of True and Adequate Peace is to criticize those who usurp the name of peace in order to validate their crimes.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Act on PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

Case No. 39/2018: Tom B. Clark

Act on PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

On March 7, 2018, an International Act of Repudiation was made to the PSYCHOLOGY TODAY company, as the evidence analyzed by the International Buddhist Ethics Committee showed that Tom B. Clark had carried out acts of fraud and Scams by means of the diffusion of false academic titles in PSYCHOLOGY TODAY website. In addition, PSYCHOLOGY TODAY company claimed to have "verified Tom B. Clark", which is also something fraudulent because the company never contacted Maitriyana Buddhist University to confirm whether this supposed therapist had graduated there. In fact, Maitriyana Buddhist University contacted the company PSYCHOLOGY TODAY to confirm that the account of Tom B. Clark was committing a crime and academic fraud, although this company never decided to make any response.

Therefore, it is confirmed that PSYCHOLOGY TODAY company has not only assisted this false psychologist, Tom B. Clark, in the commission of his crimes, but has also decided to continue to keep this scammer within the PSYCHOLOGY TODAY web page. Ergo, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee rules that PSYCHOLOGY TODAY is committing complicity with criminal acts as long as it supports and keeps active the profile of the swindler Tom B. Clark.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Judgment about Japan

Case 40-2018: Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

ETHICAL JUDGMENT

Dear Prosecutor, Public Defender, Ambassador, Secretary and Jury Members of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR), regarding Case 40-2018 against "Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe", on March 4, 2018, it is hereby put on record that the trial has been concluded to analyze the violation of Human Rights and of Buddhist Ethics made by the accused. This Case has been carried out as a result of the "Peace Recognition to Sea Shepherd".

After the analysis of the presentation of the Case and the validation of evidence, the Tribunal has proceeded with the voting of 5 members of the Jury, confirming that there was 1 vote of "Innocent", and 4 votes of "Responsible" to "Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe" for the serious crimes of Ecocide and Crimes against Nature, Violation of International Law and Violation of Buddhist Law. The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has been able to verify that "Japan" and its leader "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe" use billionaire economic resources to maintain an ecocidal and illegal regime that violates the rights of non-human persons, especially the rights of animals with super-advanced consciousnesses like dolphins and whales that are exterminated by the Japanese government with total impunity in a systematic and widespread way, even though such an act is not only banned by International Law but also banned by the very Buddhist Law, which has played an essential role in the culture of the State of Japan. In this regard, the extermination of 1 million cetaceans by "Japan" and its leader "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe" are violating not only the international ban on whaling declared by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), but also violates the Buddhist ethical precept of not harming or killing sentient beings. In addition, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms that dolphins and whales are not mere fish devoid of emotions, but actually are mammals very close to the human being, both in their emotions and in reasoning, possessing intelligence and a degree of emotionality much more advanced than that of human children. At the same time, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has been able to verify that Japan is blatantly lying when affirming that this extermination of whales and dolphins is carried out for scientific reasons and for reasons of cultural tradition. This governmental deception and lie has been condemned by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), confirming that the Japanese expeditions are not scientific but are aimed at hunting and commercialization of meat, but also the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights declares that this extermination of whales is not a Japanese cultural tradition but rather is a Nordic European practice, confirming that the Japanese government is ignoring the fact that its true cultural tradition is Buddhist Spirituality, which is synonymous with mercy and spiritual love to all sentient beings, especially to emotional and rational beings like dolphins and whales. Thus, the extermination of cetaceans not only is a crime of Ecocide and a crime against nature, but also violates the conventions of International Law and the ethical conventions of Buddhist Law, being a violent and psychopathic attack against life, against Mother Earth (Pachamama), against justice and against righteousness. In a planetary context in which humanity is polluting the air and waters, destroying the forests and jungles, overheating the planet, it seems that Japan is willing to also destroy the life of the oceans, which shows a certain remnant of the worst era of Japanese Imperialism, when in the Second World War it allied with Nazism and began to oppress and assassinate several million human beings from other nations, even using Buddhism to legitimize its military campaigns and crimes against peace. Some Japanese Buddhist organizations have recently publicly apologized for having allowed themselves to be corrupted and used by the criminal government of the Japanese Empire during the Second World War, quite often maintaining complicit silence and other times assisting ideologically to validate the crimes, because their nationalism went so far as to pervert Buddhism, by considering that religious worship to the Japanese Emperor was more important than following the Buddhist ethical tradition of Siddhartha Gautama. Few spiritual communities resisted and denounced war by paying the price of arrest and torture, as in the case of Shinko Bukkyo Seinen Domei. In fact, the status quo was defended by some corrupt Buddhist organizations during the era of Japanese Imperialism, keeping complicit silence in the face of crimes against humanity and the war crimes committed by Japan during the Second World War of the 20th century. Even in the seventeenth century the government of Japan carried out a crusade or holy war against the Japanese Christians, realizing a true Holocaust and Genocide against their own people, forcing them to abandon Christianity, torturing and killing thousands of people who refused to abdicate its Spirituality thanks to the complicit silence of Buddhist organizations of that time, reason why this inquisition or purge was so effective that in a few years it completely extinguished the Christians of Japan.

As in ancient Japan reigned the ancient system of Buddhist Civilization, it is important for Buddhism not to be silent facing evil and to judge the acts of Ecocide and crimes against nature made by the contemporary government of Japan as a total Violation of International Law and of Buddhist Law, as happened in the Myanmar Case and in the Thailand Case. The Maitriyana Community does not follow the path of complicit silence and decides to face injustice in order to speak on behalf of those oppressed, offering the present Ethical Judgment to the accused, "Japan & Prime Minister Shinzo Abe", as a teaching way about how a Buddhist and Civilized Nation, in which a proper relationship with nature must be maintained, should truly behave and never deceiving society to commit abuses against ecology. As long as Japan continues to carry out extermination against intelligent, peaceful and evolved beings such as whales, beings that have minds, personalities, language and culture, the government will be totally violating International Law and Buddhist Law. Japan and its leader Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must recover the ethical and spiritual guidance of this Great Buddhist Nation, which should immediately abandon the path of greed, hatred, deceit and ecocide, to lead Japan to be part of a civilization of peace, justice, knowledge and ecology.

The Maitriyana is the result of the encounter and synthesis between Spirituality and science. Therefore, while it is in favor of the survival of those that are most adequate or righteous, simultaneously rejects the idea of the survival of the strongest ones, because this thought could justify all kinds of exterminations and ecocides against animals. Therefore, the Buddhist Law supports Kropotkin’s vision, because he considered mutual support as the Force or Purpose (Dharma) of evolution. This scientific theory allows explaining then that the spiritual communities (sanghas) are the most evolved organisms on the planet, being guided by compassionate wisdom (karuna-prajña) and not interfering (wuwei) with the Universal Natural Order (Tao). This perspective allows considering the Maitriyana as a scientific, postmodern and socially committed movement, recovering once again the empirical spirit of Master Gautama, whose direct contact with reality was supreme. Thus, while Catholicism made the Judgment to Galileo as a dogmatic medieval attack against science and knowledge, instead, the Buddhist Law has made the Judgment to Ken Wilber as a heroic postmodern defense of science and knowledge against the manipulation and pseudo-religious deception. The Maitriyana goes beyond religion (zongjiao) and superstition (mixin), being a system of Spirituality that pursues the vision of ethical Evolution (Jinhua) of humanity and peaceful coexistence with all sentient beings. For Buddhist Law, if life evolved through mutual support, cooperation and Interexistence, then society should also evolve through these same means of reconciliation (maitri). In fact, Free and Enlightened Beings (Arhats-Bodhisattvas) considers that the Totality of Universe evolves through this Supreme Purpose (Dharma) of compassionate wisdom (karuna-prajña), considering that the entire Cosmos is governed by the process of interdependent co-arising or Cosmic Natural Law (Tao). The survival of the most adequate one, that is those that are most righteous and supportive, is something very different ethically with respect to the struggle for existence between those that are strongest against the weakest ones, which allows one to avoid falling into all kinds of imperialism and militarism against humanity and against nature. Unlike the ideologies of social Darwinism and Capitalism, the Maitriyana condemns the conception of life as competition, where the strongest ones win over the weakest that lose, because in reality nature works in a different way, by ensuring profits for everyone through mutual support, so that it is never necessary to oppress and violate the rights of the weakest. Following the teachings of Master Taixu, the Buddhist Law affirms that if human peoples decide to fight among themselves for the survival of the strongest, then mutual destruction will be assured. This shows that the future of humanity, if it is desired to have any future, must inevitably assume the Great Natural Order (Tao) of Interexistence, reconciliation (maitri) and mutual support, which are the great universal values of Maitriyana leading to the prosperity of the species. Like Kropotkin, who combined sociology with the ethics of the sages, the great spiritual masters teach that competition does not lead to the evolution of life, but rather cooperation, peace and harmony do lead to such evolution. Therefore, the Buddhist Law agrees with Kropotkin in the fact that the forces that guide the evolution of the species are the same forces that guide the evolution of human societies, which is evident after a study of the history of civilization where it is discovered that cooperation, empathy and altruism predominate over competition, confrontation and war. Following the visions of masters Gautama, Kropotkin and Taixu, the Maitriyana foresees that the Path of social evolution is directed toward a state of anarchy or Liberation in which the communities will be composed of people freely associated through mutual support, fading the competition and struggle between the peoples for good. The Buddhist Law considers that this evolutionary horizon can only occur through active contemplation, compassionate wisdom and humanitarian ethics, which are the three great gems of revolutionary Spirituality. But if humanity persists in continuing with the attitudes of imperialists and capitalists, then civilization will be condemned to decline and self-destruct, in addition to causing mass extinctions of species. The pathway of prosperity and progress of the peoples depends on mutual support and international solidarity. In agreement with Master Taixu, the Maitriyana confirms that the theories of Gautama and Kropotkin teach human beings how to improve their natural condition through the ethics of self-sacrifice and mutual support. In fact, the ideas of Kropotkin have been anticipated and fully realized by the Buddhist Law, which is a movement that develops models for a harmonious and self-organized society, just like the cells of a body and like the order of the very fabric of reality. However, the Free and Enlightened Beings (Arhats-Bodhisattvas) obviously warn that for there to be true compassionate wisdom (karuna-prajña) there must be simultaneously an emptiness of all selfishness, cultivating an open and full mind, which in turn is fundamental to fade the dualism and consumerism that make every strand of society gets sick. The Maitriyana then concludes that the human being who self-realizes and self-transcends him or herself then is empty of the evils of Ego, Ideology and State, directing his or her psychic and social existence toward a life of friendship, detachment, selflessness and spiritual love to neighbor as well as toward all sentient beings. Only through generosity and self-sacrifice humanity will be able to survive and coexist peacefully and healthily with the rest of Mother Earth (Pachamama), fulfilling its forgotten natural functions as guardians and protectors of the world. Precisely, this is the mission of the spiritual masters, who dedicate all their existence to the well-being and evolution of the whole fabric of life. The evolution of humanity is not really a biological process, but is a sociological process of anarchy and liberty, as Kropotkin states. But the Buddhist Law confirms that this social Liberation is not the last telos of the Path of humanity, whose real final evolution is to arrive at the Spiritual Awakening (Bodhi). Ergo, in the same way that humanity is an evolutionary step with respect to animal life, then the Free and Enlightened Beings (Arhats-Bodhisattvas) constitute the next evolutionary level, superior to that of human sapiens,[1] overcoming the illusion of the human Ego in order to acquire an awakened consciousness that is open to learning and to the Interexistence of life.

The Maitriyana considers the fact that animals, especially super-advanced mammals, can develop spiritually and experience Liberation, for even though they do not has intellectual developments, they can certainly benefit from the Purpose (Dharma) or meaning of existence. The Buddhist Law teaches that it is not only prohibited to hurt or kill sentient beings, but also that they should be treated with care, respect and mercy, teaching them a life of peace and friendship through the practice of compassionate wisdom (prajna-karuna), and even helping them to reach the Cure (Nirvana) of suffering. In fact, when animals are members of spiritual communities (sanghas) undoubtedly spiritual effects are produced, product of love and serenity with those who are in contact, having the power to purify their mind and heart of aggressive instincts, because the power of spiritual love has unlimited effects on the  world. Thus, even if they do not understand philosophical questions or complex languages, animals can greatly benefit from the effects of Spirituality as a lifestyle, which is transmitted through attitudes and not through intellectual means. Therefore, those animals that are adopted as pets of spiritual communities (sanghas) can learn to free themselves, choosing a new place of life, changing human companions, transiting a wandering life or even deciding to return to nature. For the Maitriyana, this shows that the Human Liberation would have an aspect that is similar to the Animal Liberation: living without attachment to what is illusory but with harmony toward the Universal Natural Order (Tao) or Purpose (Dharma) of life. In short, as stated in the Judgment of "Salk Institute for Biological Studies Case", the Buddhist Law has prophesied that the last two Buddhas of the future -Buddha Tissa and Buddha Sumangala- will be two spiritually evolved elephants, demonstrating that the Dharmic nature or intrinsic dignity is found in human beings and also in other living beings, such as elephants, hominids, cetaceans and pigs.

In conclusion, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has the Purpose (Dharma) to protect all sentient beings through spiritual love and compassionate wisdom (karuna-prajña), especially sentencing governments that commit ecocides and crimes against nature . Therefore, it is established that "Japan" has violated International Law and Buddhist Law through ecocidal activities that produce a systematic and widespread scheme of violations of the rights of non-human beings protected by the global community. Undoubtedly, Japan should shed all imperialist and destructive traits, especially by abandoning the religion of capitalism in order to regain the predominance of Buddhist Spirituality and its passion for compassion to all sentient beings. Therefore, the ethical judgment against "Japan" constitutes a great lesson for this Great Nation to become again a dharmic government that stops doing evil, begins to do good and be spiritually purified.

Following Master Gautama, who developed a Community of defense of nature, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights supervises that governments and companies do not attempt against ethics and human rights, never betraying the relationship of harmony that should unite humanity with the rest of nature, so that "Japan" has been sentenced as Responsible for Ecocide, Crimes Against Nature, Violation of International Law and Violation of Buddhist Law.

With spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

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[1] Zhifeng, An appraisal of Kropotkin’s “ethics”.