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				Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
				
                                        Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The Buddhist Jataka Stories and the DSM – based Mental Disorders   By Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD   Organized by Buddhist and Pali University  of Sri Lanka Youtube Link ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O4B681Cf7A
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				Monday, December 23rd, 2024
				
                                        Ruwan M Jayatunge  Your heart is a hunted mansion Appear menacing and imposingsurrounded by dead trees and plantsThe windows are dark and filled with shadowsWhen I opened the main door, I got a heavy feelingAm I walking towards my ill-fated destiny?I see flickering candles forming shadowsThe hallway is like a holograph of an eventGiving me […]
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				Thursday, December 19th, 2024
				
                                        Dr. Sarath Panduwawala and Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The ‘Post-War Period’ can be defined as the years following a major war, characterized by significant changes in the individuals as well as in the society. The Eelam War in Sri Lanka erupted in 1983 and ended in 2009. Following these years, Sri Lankan society experienced a […]
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				Monday, December 16th, 2024
				
                                        By Dr . Wasantha Sena Weliange Dr. Upali Peris Dr. Manoj Fernando Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Youtube Link ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeS1RBhyp1E
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				Monday, December 9th, 2024
				
                                        Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Cannabis; Pros, Cons, Debate, Arguments …Zoom Discussion13th of December (Friday) at 8.30 pm SL Time Discussion panel Dr . Wasantha Sena WeliangeDr. Upali PerisDr. Manoj FernandoDr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Link ;  https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81288753119?pwd=6a4ujcxOH6MrUDD1bTY3s45zURiTxq.1  https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81288753119?pwd=6a4ujcxOH6MrUDD1bTY3s45zURiTxq.1
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				Sunday, December 1st, 2024
				
                                        Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. According to the Western chronological records, the first patients who showed PTSD-like symptomatology were recorded in 1666. These records were based on Samuel Pepy’s diary, which described the bizarre behavior pattern of the survivors of the Great Fire of London.  Samuel Pepy vividly portrayed the nightmares, intrusions and flashbacks experienced […]
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				Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
				
                                        By Professor Raj Somadeva and Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge TimeNov 21, 2024 10:30 AM Colombo Meeting ID725 2642 0413 Securitychecked Passcode******** Invite LinkInvite Link https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72526420413?pwd=VrhALeRPERtZdmyvYXDyyTmwoS4lsz.1https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72526420413?pwd=VrhALeRPERtZdmyvYXDyyTmwoS4lsz.1
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				Monday, November 18th, 2024
				
                                        By Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D PhD YouTube PresentationOrganized by Dr. Vipula Wanigasekara and Team Link ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJipXqSE8gc
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				Monday, November 11th, 2024
				
                                        Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.    Odysee Video Link alternative to YouTube : https://player.odycdn.com/v6/streams/90eac9df9ddf5fbd9a76399cd6fa420aa1a74cff/98b48a.mp4
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				Thursday, October 31st, 2024
				
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				Saturday, October 26th, 2024
				
                                        Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD  Crash is a 2004 American movie that discusses racial relations in America. The movie is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles and was inspired by real-life events. Crash received several awards and nominations.  Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and the Movie Crash”  (a)    The self-fulfilling prophecy is a self-made assumption based on future events, and […]
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				Saturday, October 26th, 2024
				
                                        By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD Organized by  the  Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
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				Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
				
                                        Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D PhD Toronto Canada I was amazed by seeing “Fiddler on the Roof,” a musical drama at the Lionel Wendt last night. This stunning drama was directed by Jerome L. de Silva. This musical was based on the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Norman Jewison. The film is based on Tevye, a […]
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				Monday, August 5th, 2024
				
                                        Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Prasanna Withanage’s newest movie, “Paradise,” is based on several elements. The movie discusses racial relations in a multiethnic country.  An Indian couple (Amritha and Kasav ) visits Sri Lanka during the height of the socio-economic drawbacks and encounters a nightmare. Their main aim is to see the places associated with the […]
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				Monday, June 3rd, 2024
				
                                        Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD The Prague German writer Franz Kafka wrote some of the most brilliant, disturbing, difficult, harrowing, and prophetic literature of the twentieth century (Hoffman, 1974) and his literary genius was discovered posthumously. Franz Kafka is a complex, even absurd, author, difficult to understand unless the reader is prepared to penetrate the […]
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				Saturday, May 25th, 2024
				
                                         Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD  Sex is a basic human need, common to all people at all times (Shokeir &, Hussein, 2004) and exclusively a biological function, defined based on that individual’s individuality and socio-cultural background (Kumarasinghe et al., 2022). Ancient Sri Lankans had varied sexual lives. The ancient folklore and texts unveil the traditions […]
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				Thursday, February 8th, 2024
				
                                         Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in progress)  Recently Dr Mahinda Pathirana of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, made an attempt to explain reincarnation via quantum mechanics. He uses the Buddhist teachings, Milinda / Nagasena debate and some of the ideas of the 2nd Century Buddhist Philosopher Nagarjuna.  He is bringing Quantum entanglement to explain […]
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				Sunday, January 21st, 2024
				
                                        වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග M.D. PhD (in Progress) තමා බෝධිසත්වයෙක් බව කියමින් මිනිසුන් ගෙන් වැඳුම් ගන්නා ඊජිප්තුවේ බල්ලන් බලා ගත් බව කියන පුද්ගලයෙකු සහ ඔහු ගේ කල්ට් එකක් පිලිබඳ රාවයක් මේ දින වල යයි. මෙය යම් පුද්ගලයෙකු හෝ පුද්ගලයන් පිරිසක් විසින් නළුවන් යොදා කරන කැළනියේ නයා වැනි දේශපාලන උපක්රමයක් හෝ යම් මානසික අක්රමතාවකට ලක්වූ පුද්ගලයෙකු විසින් […]
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				Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
				
                                        Written and Compiled by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in progress) Reincarnation is the belief that when a person dies, he is reborn again.  Reincarnation is regarded as the mental continuum of an individual. Belief in reincarnation is an ancient phenomenon and exists in many cultures. The Egyptians believed in the soul’s immortality. In India, the concept […]
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				Sunday, December 31st, 2023
				
                                        ( වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විසින් ලියන ලද The Concept of Dukkha” in Buddhist Philosophy ලිපියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය. පරිවර්තනය හර්ෂිනී ජයසුන්දර  ) දුක්ඛ” යන බෞද්ධ සංකල්පය මගින් පැවැත්මේ (existence)  සැබෑ ස්වභාවය විස්තර කරයි. එහි ගැඹුරු දාර්ශනික අර්ථයක් ඇත. “දුක්ඛ” යන වචනය බොහො විට වරදවා වටහාගෙන ඇතිවා මෙන්ම වරදවා භාවිත කරද ඇත. “දුක්ඛ” යන වචනයේ අර්ථ්ය […]
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				Sunday, December 17th, 2023
				
                                        Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in Progress)  The Buddhist concept of Dukkha” describes the true nature of all existence. It has a profound philosophical meaning.  The term dukka has been commonly misunderstood and misused. The word dukkha means not suffering. Suffering can be found in the pathogenic paradigm. Suffering involves somatic, mental, social, and spiritual forms of distress […]
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				Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
				
                                         Dr. MUPK Peris / Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge  People with schizophrenia can experience auditory perceptions without external stimuli or for any other rational reasons to explain such an experience. These perceptions known as auditory hallucinations are unintentional and intrusive. For the patients, these sensory perceptions are often compelling and experienced in quality of true perceptions […]
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				Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
				
                                        Written and Compiled by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in progress)  In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same., Albert Einstein For treatment, procedures for PTSD in Sri Lanka medications and psychotherapy are widely used. Some prefer to […]
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				Monday, November 6th, 2023
				
                                        Ruwan M. Jayatunge (A medical Doctor/ Author and an Associate Professor)  Culture consists of traditions, values, customs, folklore,   rituals, and artifacts that help to make meaning of the physical world and its transmitted primarily through language and everyday interactions.  These cultural factors frequently play as trauma buffers and help the victims to come to […]
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				Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
				
                                        වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මෑතකදී ජාතික ජන බලවේගයයේ  ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ශ්රී ලංකා විවෘත විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ සමාජ විද්යා අධ්යයන අංශයේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය, ආචාර්ය හරිනි අමරසූරිය ගෙන් විශ්ව විද්යාල නවක වධය පිලිබඳ ඇයගේ ස්ථාවරය විමසමින් මහාචාර්ය හරේන්ද්ර සිල්වා, මහාචාර්ය සුජීව අමරසේන, මහාචාර්ය සිරි හෙට්ටිගේ, මහාචාර්ය හිරාන් අමරසේකර සහ පුරවැසි මාධ්යවේදියෙකු වන අජිත් පැරකුම් ජයසිංහ හරහා ප්රශ්න ඇයට […]
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				Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
				
                                        වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ෆ්රෙඩ්රික් නීට්ෂේ විසින් 1882 දී  රචිත The Birth of Tragedy ( The Birth of Tragedy, Out of the Spirit of Music (Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik) කෘතිය ග්රීක ඛේදවාචකයේ මූලාරම්භය තේරුම් කරයි. එසේම දර්ශනවාදය සහ කලාව තරණය කිරීමට ගත් උත්සාහය ඔහුගේ පළමු කෘතිය  මගින් පෙනී යයි.  එක් ආකාරයකින්  The Birth of Tragedy 5 වැනි සියවසේ […]
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				Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
				
                                        Ruwan Jayatunga Presentation on PTSD and Combat trauma in the 30-year war in Sri Lanka by Professor Daya Somasundaram and Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge
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				Thursday, August 31st, 2023
				
                                        Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. 71 කැරැල්ල ආරම්භයේ සිට අවසානය දක්වා පුර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක් – කර්තෘ වෛද්ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග (මේ පොත දැන් මිලදී ගත හැකියි ; දුශෙයින් පොත් හළ 271 A හයිලෙවල් පාර නුගේගොඩ) වෛද්ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග විසින් 71 කැරැල්ල පිළිබඳව අධ්යයනයක් කොට කැරළිකරුවන් සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවලට ලක් කරමින් ඉතිහාසයේ සැඟව පැවති සාධකයන් ඉස්මතු කරමින් […]
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				Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
				
                                        by Professor Daya Somasundaram and Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wC8a6cHRHuW-uRfoE6ZJ1uSwv5RxiJEZ/view?ts=64eb310e&pli=1
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				Monday, August 28th, 2023
				
                                        Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. ඊලාම් යුද්ධයේ දුර්විපාක සමාජය හඳුනාගන්නා කාලය තෙක් මනෝ විද්යාත්මක රෝගාබාධයක් වූ පශ්චාත් ව්යසන ක්ලමථ අක්රමතාවය (Post-traumatic stress disorder -PTSD)  ශ්රී ලාංකාවට ආගන්තුක රෝග තත්වයක් විය. වියට්නාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ඇමරිකානු සමාජය වියට්නාම් සින්ඩ්රෝමය හඳුනාගත්තාක් සේ ඊලාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ශ්රී ලාංකික සමාජය පලාලි සින්ඩ්රෝමය හෙවත් සංග්රාමික පශ්චාත් ව්යසන ක්ලමථ අක්රමතාවය හඳුනා ගන්නා […]
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