Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,  Sun Jun 26 21:33:27 EDT 2005

The four Maha Nayaka Theros of the Malwatte, Asgiriya, Amarapura and Ramanya
may be called upon to issue a Sangha Agna (Command) and summon a mass
gathering of the Buddhist clergy and laity on Friday to protest against the
signing of the joint mechanism between the Kumaratunga government and the
LTTE.

Buddhist monks had already got the support of two Nikayas and they expect to
get the support of the other two Nikayas soon. A senior Buddhist monk said
though the government said they got the blessings of the Asgiriya Maha
Nayaka, the Nayaka Thero had informed his Karaka Saba that he did not agree
or approve the proposal.

The Buddhist monks opposed to the joint mechanism are also reported to be
angry that the President did not honour the promise given to the monks
during the fast of the JHU monk Dr Omalpe Sobitha. He ended his six day fast
after President Kumaratunga promised the chief prelates that she would
discuss the joint mechanism before it was signed. A senior JHU monk said she
did not have proper discussions with the monks nor get the proper advice
from the monks.

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- The Academic

Of course she should be banned from all Buddhsit temples and should be disregarded by all Buddhists. First she promised to discuss JM wiht maha sangha and then betrayed by signing it secretly. This is the time to challange her betrayals and lies.

She lied not only to the maha snagha but to her own parliamentarians. The draft distibuted among deputy ministers was not the authentic original paper. CBK is a puppet of Norway. I Norwegian citizenship is granted to her because there is no place to hide here except the cave of Pirapaharan.


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Sri Lanka is a Sinhela Buddhist country where anybody can live in harmony. Helaya has proven history for millenia and other invadres and traders settled in this country becuase of the friendliness and the tolerence of indogenius.

Asipatha wrote:

Of course she should be banned from all Buddhsit temples and should be disregarded by all Buddhists. First she promised to discuss JM wiht maha sangha and then betrayed by signing it secretly. This is the time to challange her betrayals and lies.

She lied not only to the maha snagha but to her own parliamentarians. The draft distibuted among deputy ministers was not the authentic original paper. CBK is a puppet of Norway. I Norwegian citizenship is granted to her because there is no place to hide here except the cave of Pirapaharan.

Asipatha,
I was a little pertubed by your signature. This is not very helpful in the current climate but I am sure you are not too bothered by my view. However, I thought you may be interested in an old introduction to a book I read recently. It goes:
"The inventive narration of the founding of Sri Lanka with the arrival of the sinhalese is a case in point. The story surrounding Vijaya, the supposed founder of the sinhalese race, as is given in the Mahavamsa is not only fanciful but sordid as well. The sinhalese people,it is said,are descendants of an 'amorous' princess in the country of the Vangas (Bengal in India) who mated with a lion! The soothsayers had 'prophesied her union with the king of beasts', says the chronicle,'and for shame the king and queen could not suffer her'. So she left her home,seeking an independent life and joined a caravan. What follows is an intriguing account that has all the drama that would make a good Hollywood blockbuster!.
The caravan was travelling to the 'Magadha country' and on the way a lion attacked it in the forest. While 'the other folk fled this way and that' the princess fled along the way by which the lion had come.'when the lion had taken his prey and was leaving the spot he beheld her from afar,love(for her) laid hold on him,and he came towards her with waving tail and ears laid back. Seeing him she bethought her of that prophecy of the soothsayer which she had heard,and without fear she caressed him stroking his limbs. The lion, roused to fiercest passion by her touch, took her upon his back and bore her with all speed to his cave, and there he united with her, and from this union with him the princess in time bore twin-children, a son and daughter'. The son's hand and feet were formed like a lion's and the mother named him Si(n)habahu. The daughter was named Si(n)hasivali. Thus they lived in the lion's cave for sixteen years.
Now, it was the lion's habbit to close the cave entrance with a rock before setting forth in search of prey. When Sihabahu was sixteen, he asked his mother:'wherefore are you and our father so different, dear mother?' So she told him. The next thing that happened was of course what could be called in contemporary terms, a case of malicious desertion! When the lionhad gone out in search of prey, young Sihabahu dislodged the rock that covered the cave, carried his mother and sister on his two shoulders, clothed themselves with branches of trees and escaped to the border village.When the lion returned and found the wife and children gone, 'he was sorrowful, and geieving after his son, he neither ate nor drank', says the Mahavamsa. He set forth in search of them in neighbouring villages, and wherever he went, the people fled in fear. They then went to the king and told him:'A lion ravages thy country; ward off (this danger) O King'. The king offered a reward of a thousand gold pieces to anyone who would bringthe lion's head. Since there were no takers, he increased the reward in turn to two thousand and then three thousand gold pieces. Sihabahu accepted the promise of reward and despite his mother restraining him went to his father's cave. As soon as the lion saw his son, he came forward with love towards him. Sihabahu's arrow struck the lion's forehead, but because of his tenderness towards his son, the arrow rebounded  and fell on the earth at the youth's feet. And so it fell three times, but 'then did the king of beasts grow wrathful and the arrow sent at him struck him and pierced his body'.
Sihabahu took the head of the lion with the mane and returned to the city  to receive a hero's welcome. In course of time, he founded the new 'kingdom of Lala', made Sihasivali (his sister) the queen, and by her had 'twin sons sixteen times', thirty two sons in all. The eldest of them was named Vijaya whom the king consecrated as prince-regent. Vijaya, according to the Mahavamsa, turned out to be 'of eveil conduct'. He , and his followers, seven hundred of them, perpetrated ' many intolerable deeds of violence' that angered the people.The father Sihabahu lost his patience, half-shaved the heads of the lot of them and put them on a ship banishing them from his kingdom. It was this Vijaya who eventually landed in Lanka and founded the Sinhala race, according to the Chronicle.
Not a pleasant way to trace the origin of the sinhala people - a story of animal descent, an over-sexed princess, a parricide father, an incestuous marriage and a wicked son banished by his people! One would have expected the Sinhalese people to have dismissed this story of a shameful genealogy from their minds, and laughed it off - given their habitual sense of humor- (unlike the Tamils, they have a greater capacity to laugh at themselves) as arrant nonsense. But alas, their politicians were of a different mould. When the leaders of predominantly Hindu India opted for the 'Asoka Chakra', with its Buddhist connotation of peace as the national emblem at the time of independence, the buddhist leaders of Sri Lanka who claim that the island is the first and final repository of Buddhism, Ahimsa and Maithreye decided to make a ferocious-looking lion holding a sword on its paw as their flag and emblem!'.

I think there is something you can learn from this.

ID, the Lion Flag is flying high in Jaffna.

And the whole Sri Lankan cricket teams wears a nice huge lion on their shirt.

Hope the Lion Flag continues to fly in all its glory.

You are suppose to read what I wrote and discuss, Member.

gulf-times.com, Mon 27th June 12:30GMT.
The National Bhikku Front (NBF) has charged that President Chandrika Kumaratunga has taken the masses for a ride by claiming that the document pertaining to the P-TOMS would be shown to the ‘Maha Nayakas’ (Chief Monks) before the MoU was signed with the LTTE. Ven Dambara Amila thera, the monk who recently staged a death-fast protesting against the P-TOMS told the media that the president had given an assurance to the ‘Maha Nayakas’ of the Asgiriya and Malwatte Chapters that the document on the P-TOMS will be shown to them before it was presented in parliament.

But what took place on June 24 clearly shows that the president had misled the Maha Nayakas, and her action clearly indicates that it was a deliberate attempt by her to make the people of this country lose faith in the Maha Nayakas, he said, and added that they should explain the real position to the masses, and take prompt action to clear their names from this imbroglio.

“It is a matter that the Maha Sangha should deeply examine and arrive at a decision whether to further accept the leadership of a lady who belittles the Maha Sangha by uttering falsehoods for her own political survival”, the monk noted.

Ven Amila appealed to the Maha Nayakes to take ‘stern action’ against those who are responsible for “betraying the nation” and the Maha Sangha.

Full story on Gulf-Times

I have not heard or read any where a single crying out for the victims of the tsunami. In particular the buddhist victims who piously follow the religion must be disgusted at the action of the monks. The action of the monks are delaying the urgent relief work needed to get these people on foot and set them up in new life.

The monks does not seem to care about the sudderings of ordinary people.

They want to put their fingers in every aspect politics, economy, armed forces except preaching and practicing their religion.

Quote:

Sri Lanka is a Sinhela Buddhist country where anybody can live in harmony. Helaya has proven history for millenia and other invadres and traders settled in this country becuase of the friendliness and the tolerence of indogenius.

If you look at the history of Sri Lanka from Ravana period until today it had never been total peace in Sri Lanka. Sinhalese and tamils always loves to fight each other and kill each other. It had been carved into our genes.
Even buddhist clergy opposing the ruler happened so many times even in recent hsitory.
It is matter of history repeating.
I think it is probably a curse that we cannot get rid of.
Having said that all bad things have to come to end.
So be cheerfull guys!

IDP,

Tried to read your posting.
Dozed of two times in middle and gave it up.

Negombo,
I am so sorry it was too long for you to read without falling asleep. Nevermind!!

IDP,
I read your contribution and found it interesting. I know you said it was an introduction by someone. It was taken from a book called The Mahavamsa or the Great Chronicle  of Ceylon. It was translated into english by Wilhelm Geiger.Ph.D. Assisted by Mabel Haynes Bode, Ph.D. with an addendum by G.C.Mendis,Ph.D Lecturer in History, University of Ceylon.
This was published by the Ceylon Government Information Department, Colombo. (1950).

If you are interested in Sinhala, Buddhist history then it is a good read. I never thought I would discuss it with someone in a forum. It is a must read book. I would be delighted to have your comments .

Kumudini Wanasinghe wrote:

IDP,
I read your contribution and found it interesting. I know you said it was an introduction by someone. It was taken from a book called The Mahavamsa or the Great Chronicle  of Ceylon. It was translated into english by Wilhelm Geiger.Ph.D. Assisted by Mabel Haynes Bode, Ph.D. with an addendum by G.C.Mendis,Ph.D Lecturer in History, University of Ceylon.
This was published by the Ceylon Government Information Department, Colombo. (1950).

If you are interested in Sinhala, Buddhist history then it is a good read. I never thought I would discuss it with someone in a forum. It is a must read book. I would be delighted to have your comments .

Kumudini
I am interested in getting a copy of this book. do you know whether this is available in Amazon online?

Suresh,
I am not sure if Amazon will carry this title. Give it a go anyway.  Alternatively, you may try Lake house ot Vijitha Yapa bookshops in Colombo. If you are very keen then you may try Government Information department ( I am not sure if that is the name of the department now). Let me know how it goes.

[quote="Negombo"]IDP,

Tried to read your posting.
Dozed of two times in middle and gave it up.[/quote]

Hi Negombo,

When I was student (about 55 years ago) we learned this in our History Lessons and on that particular day this was told to us I joked at my mate seated next to me a Sinhalese (never felt any difference) about the family tree and how the fore fathers were born. The reply I received from him was what a beauty the great, gerat,..... grand mother would have been even fpr a lion to have been attracted. My friend was called to rest in 2002 yet whenever we meet at the Old Boy's Function, he used to remind everybody this incident.

Does our grand children enjoy thinking and living as Ceylonese

[quote="Asipatha"]Of course she should be banned from all Buddhsit temples and should be disregarded by all Buddhists. First she promised to discuss JM wiht maha sangha and then betrayed by signing it secretly. This is the time to challange her betrayals and lies.

She lied not only to the maha snagha but to her own parliamentarians. The draft distibuted among deputy ministers was not the authentic original paper. CBK is a puppet of Norway. I Norwegian citizenship is granted to her because there is no place to hide here except the cave of Pirapaharan.[/quote]

Before banning 'her' why don't you ask the monks to be where they should be  and preach people the benifit of peace???