buddha's soldiers... a buddhist hymn

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A Power Point Presentation of a Buddhist Hymn by The Wayfarers. Dedicated to all Dhammafarers or Dhammaduta workers. May they continue to spread the Dhamma out of compassion for all. Pics taken by Bro. Teh Kee Keang during a Buddhist Pilgrimage to India.

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Have you heard the sound of footsteps

As of soldiers marching on?

Lumbini

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Have you seen their banners waving?

Have you heard their battle song?

Lumbini

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Lumbini

Have you watched their blazing torches Lighting up their columns long?

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Have you heard the sound of footsteps

As of soldiers marching on?

Bodhgaya

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Yes, we heard their footsteps thunder In the watches of the night

Bodhgaya

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And we saw their banners waving

By their torches' flaring light

Bodhgaya

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And the stirring songs they shouted

Filled our hearts with strange delight

Sarnath

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Yes, we heard their footsteps thunder

In the watches of the night

Sarnath

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It was sad to see them marching

To some battlefield of pain,

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There to leave their youthful bodies

‘Mid the fallen and the slain

Kusinara

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That some earthly king or monarch

On his golden throne might reign

Kusinara

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It was sad to see them marching

To some battlefield of pain

Kusinara

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Nay, these are the Buddha's soldiers And the foe they seek to slay

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Is illusion's self that hinders Mankind's progress day by day

Kapilavastu

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Savatthi

Righteousness the sword they carry Wisdom's torch that lights their way

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Nay, these are the Buddha’s soldiers And the foe they seek to slay

Savatthi

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For no earthly king or monarch Do they march to meet the fight

Vesali

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But to spread the Buddha's Teaching In the darkness of our night

Rajgir

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And to crown the Truth triumphant In the splendor of Love's Light

Rajgir

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For no earthly king or monarch Do they march to meet the fight

Nalanda

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Bodhgaya

The End

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