11 Responses to “දිවයින ට ආවේශ වී අති  සොලොමන් ලා  ගේ පුහු චින්තන හොල්මන්- I”

1. Senevirath Says:
   September 14th, 2017 at 5:45 pm

   නාරද කරුණාතිලක is with Bodhi Sabhawa.
   16 hrs ·
   හෙලේනා පැට්රොව්නා බ්ලැවට්ස්කිගේ මවුපියෝ රුසියානුවන් වෙති. සාර් රාජ පරපුරට සම්බන්ධ වංශවත් රුසියානු පරපුරකට අයත් ඔවුහු, එකටෙරිනෝස්ලෝව්හි විසූ හ. පැරණි රුසියානු කැලැන්ඩරයට අනුව, 1831 ජුලි 31 වැනිදා හෙලේනා බිහි වූවා ය. මෙය කොලරා වසංගතයෙන් යුරෝපය ම පෙළුණු අසුබ කාලයයි. හෙලේනා උපන් ප‍්‍රදේශයේ ද බොහෝ දෙනා
   කොලරා වසංගතයට ගොදුරු වූ හ. හෙලේනාගේ මව ද ඊට ගොදුරු වූවා ය. ඈ බෞතිස්ම කරන අවස්ථාවේ ඉටිපන්දමක් වැටී පූජකතුමාගේ ලෝගුව ගිනි ගත්තේ ය.
   හෙලේනා සීයාගේ සෙවණේ හැදුනා ය. 1849 වසරේ අවුරුදු 18ට පා තබන විට සීයාගේ මිත‍්‍ර ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයකු වූ නිකිෆර් බ්ලැවට්ස්කි සමග විවාහ වීමට ඇයට සිදු විය. ඔහු සාම්ප‍්‍රදායික ක‍්‍රිස්තියානි මතධාරියෙකි. සැරපරුෂ වයස්ගත පුද්ගලයෙකි. එබැවින් හෙලේනාට සාර්ථක විවාහ ජීවිතයක් නොවී ය. ස්වාමියා හැර පලා ගිය හෙලේනා, ඔහු මිය යනතෙක් ම සැඟ වී සිටියා ය. සැමියා මිය ගිය පසු රටින් පිට වූ ඈ ඉතා රහසිගත ව විදේශ චාරිකාවක යෙදුණා ය. මිසරය, පර්සියාව ආදි රටවල්හි සංචාරය කළ හෙලේනා කැනඩාව, මැක්සිකෝව යන රටවලට ද ගියා ය. අවසානයේ ඉන්දියාවට ගොස් දෙවසරකට වැඩි කාලයක් එහි වෙසෙමින් ඉන්දියානු දර්ශන, තන්ත‍්‍රයානිකයන්ගේ විජ්ජා, යෝග ශාස්ත‍්‍රය හා බුදුදහම හදාරමින් භාවනාව පුහුණු වූවා ය. ඇය වරක් මිසරයට ගොස් ගුප්ත ශාස්ත‍්‍රඥයන්ගේ සංගමයක් ඇරඹීමට ද වෙහෙසුනා ය.
   බ්ලැවට්ස්කි ආධ්‍යාත්මික දැනුම ඉන්දියාවෙන් ලබාගත් බව කීමට බොහෝ දෙනා පෙළඹීමට එකම හේතුව, ඇය කාලයක් ඉන්දියාවේ ගත කිරීමයි. ඔවුන් පෙන්වන ලෙසට ඇය ඉන්දියාවේ දී ලද ගුප්ත විද්‍යා දැනුම නිසා නොයෙක් හාස්කම් කිරීමට සමත් වූවා ය. ඕල්කොට්ගේ පැරණි දිනපොත්හි ඔහු ඇසින් දුටු බ්ලැවට්ස්කි කළ හාස්කම් පිළිබඳ සිද්ධි ගණනාවක් සඳහන්ව ඇත.
   ”වරක් සිම්ලාහි තියෝසොපි රැුස්වීමක් පැවැත්වුණි. ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉහළ ම හමුදා නිලධරයකු, ඔහුගේ භාර්යාව ඇතුළු ඉන්දියාවේ නායකයෝ කිහිප දෙනෙක් ම ඊට සහභාගි වූ හ. රැුස්වීම ආරම්භ වී ටික වේලාවකට පසු කතා කළ අයෙක්, අතීතයේ මෙවැනි විද්වත් සමාගම්වලට දෙවිවරුන් ආශිර්වාද කළ බැව් කී හ. බ්ලැවට්ස්කි ඉහළ බලා, ‘දැනුත් එහෙම වෙන්න පුළුවනැ’යි පැවසුවා ය. මොහොතකින් මල් සුවඳක් පැතිරෙන්නට වූයේ ය. හැම දෙන විස්මයට පත් කරමින් අහසින් මල් වැටෙන්නට විය.’’ ( ඕල්කොට්ගේ පැරණි දින සටහන්*
   ”එම්.එච්.බී. අකුරු තුන සඳහන් එම්බ්‍රොයිඩර් කළ අත් ලේන්සුවක් ඈ ළඟ තිබුණි. මේ අකුරු මකා වෙනත් නමක් කියවෙන ඉංග‍්‍රීසි අකුරු සටහන් කර පෙන්වීමට ඇය සමත් වූවා ය. ලංකාවට පැමිණ එතුමිය කරන ඒ හාස්කම දැකීමට ඇතැම් භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේලාට අවශ්‍ය විය. බ්ලැවට්ස්කි භික්ෂූන්ගේ නම්වල මුල් අකුරු ලේන්සුවෙන් පෙන්වමින් උන්වහන්සේ සතුටට පත් කළා ය.’’ (පැ.දි.ස.*
   ”එඞ්ව්ඞ් ෆාම් හවුස්හි දී ඇය නරඹන්නන් මවිත කරවන විජ්ජා කළා ය. අඹ ඇටයක් සිටුවා එය ලේන්සුවකින් වැසූ ඇය, ලේන්සුව ඉවත ගන්නා විට එහි වූයේ අඹ පැලයකි. පැලය ලේන්සුවෙන් වසා නැවත ලේන්සුව ඔසවද්දී අඹ පැලයේ ගෙඩි දක්නට තිබුණි.’’ (පැ.දි.ස.*
   ”තියෝසොපි නායකයන් ලංකාවට පැමිණි නැවේ කපිතාන්වරයා යාඥා කරමින් සිටිනු දුටු බ්ලැවට්ස්කි, ‘ඔබට ඉක්මනින් ම මුහුදු රස්සාව වෙනුවට ගොඩබිම රස්සාවක් කරන්ට වේයැ’යි පැවසුවා ය. මේ අනාවැකිය අසා නැවේ කපිතාන්වරයා බඩෙන් පවා සිනාසුන නමුත් ඊට මාස දෙකකට පසුව බ්ලැවට්ස්කිගෙන් සමාව ඉල්ලා ලිපියක් එවා තිබුණි. ඈ අනාවැකි කී ලෙසට ම ගොඩබිම රස්සාවකට යන්නට ඔහුට සිදු වී තිබුණි.’’ (පැ.දි.ස.*
   බ්ලැවට්ස්කි පුද්ගලයන්ගේ මුහුණ බලා ඔවුන්ගේ අතීත ආත්මය පැහැදිලි කළා ය. ”බුදු සසුන ලොව පැතිරවූ ධර්මාශෝක රජතුමා ඔබ යි’’ කියා ඕල්කොට් සමග පැවසූ ඈ තවත් මෙවැනි හෙළිදරව් කිරීම් රාශියක් කළා ය. මරී මියුසියස් හිගින්ස් ලංකාවට පැමිණියේ එවැනි කතාවක් ඇසීමෙනි.
   මරී, ජර්මනියේ මැක්ලන්බර්ග් නගරයේ වයිස්මර්හි විසූ සුප‍්‍රසිද්ධ ක‍්‍රිස්තියානි දේවධර්මාචාරයකුගේ දියණියකි. ඈ ඇමරිකා ජාතික තරුණ ඉංජිනේරුවකු සමග පේ‍්‍රම සම්බන්ධයක් ඇති කරගෙන දෙමව්පිය කැමැත්තෙන් විවාහ වී නිව්යෝක්හි පදිංචි වී සිටියා ය. මෙම ඉංජිනේරුවා තියෝසොපි සාමාජිකයෙකි. ඔහු හදිසි අනතුරකින් මියගියෙන් තරුණ මරී අතිශයින් ශෝකයට පත්වූවා ය.
   බ්ලැවට්ස්කි ඈ සනසමින් ඉතිහාස කතාවක් කීවා ය. ”ඉන්දියාවේ විසූ අශෝක අධිරාජයාගේ දරුවන් දෙදෙනා ලංකාවේ භික්ෂු හා භික්ෂුනී සසුන් පිහිටුවීමට මුල් වුණා. මරියා, ඔබ ලංකාවේ භික්ෂුනී සසුන පිහිටුවූ අශෝක අධිරාජයාගේ දුව, සංඝමිත්තායි. ඔබ ජීවත් විය යුතු රට ලංකාවයි. එහි වැසියෝ ඔබව පිළිගනීවි. ඔබට ආදරය කරාවි. බොහෝ ගරු සත්කාර දක්වාවි. එහි යන්න.’’ (තියෝසොපි අප‍්‍රසිද්ධ අත්පිටපත්*

2. Asanga Says:
   September 15th, 2017 at 3:06 am

   Bodhi Dhanapala and Neela Maha Yodaya,

   I guess the two of you have yet again done your level best, through highly detailed academic looking articles to discredit Nalin De Silva.

   Is he wrong in some of his deductions?? Quite possible. I don’t agree with everything he says either.

   BUT, the impact he has had by directing the thinking of many Sinhala people, particularly young people to the concept that our heritage combined with the legacy of Buddhism, has many resources that can help us become the great nation that we once were (the Hela nation, not necessarily Sinhala nation) is immense.

   He certainly had that impact on me. And for that I am eternally grateful to him.

   If only it is a disagreement that you have had with him, that you carried out through an exchange of replies,, then fine, please continue.

   But instead I believe this is a constant campaign to erase and remove what ever good he has brought about, I really do question your efforts in this venture.

   But it seems to be succeeding, so well done. I hope you are proud of your efforts.

   So I end with one humble request for you both. Since you seem also to be Sinhala Buddhists. Can you please continue to do the great service that he has done or , , as you say he is nothing but a fake, please do a better job at bringing further enlightenment to our heritage?

   Because if you are spending so much effort towards destroying his character, I think it’s the least you could do for us, those who learnt something from him.

   Don’t you think?

3. Senevirath Says:
   September 15th, 2017 at 4:17 am

   කාමසුකල්ලිකානුයෝගී දැනුම් වලට පහර වැඩෙන විට සමහරු කිපෙනවා අසංග එකය්

4. NeelaMahaYoda Says:
   September 15th, 2017 at 5:04 am

   Asanga
   As I have mentioned in one of my notes that the Indian archaeological evidence shows that when Vijaya Singhe landed in Lanka there was an advanced civilisation already in Lanka which was the Hela civilisation. Origin of Sinhala which easily be explained as union of Hela with Sinha dynasty producing a new culture and a nation now we call Sinhala.

   I have not come across any article by Nalin De Silva contributing to Hela origin. Instead he is trying to link modern science with Abrahamic religion and discouraging Sinhala only speaking kids from learning Science.

5. Asanga Says:
   September 15th, 2017 at 1:50 pm

   Neela Maha Yodaya,
   I appreciate your answer. . Actually Nalin did have several articles where he commented on the Hela origin -mainly on the Divaina ‘Kalaya’ column dating back to maybe around nine or ten years ago.

   Actually, I thought just as you did when I first read his articles where he said that western science is a ‘Patta pal boruwa’ that he is actually discouraging people from learning about it. But if you read a bit deeper you see that he is not suggesting that. I think it is the same as the case of modern Quantum Physics displacing Classical Mechanics. Although Quantum Physics gives a more realistic view of the actual nature of things, Classical Mechanics is still useful in regular day to day calculations, such as what you might have used in your engineering career.

   I believe reading somewhere in Nalin’s articles him saying that he is not suggesting the abandonment of learning western science but rather learn it, knowing that in ultimate reality, it breaks down. Which I believe what guys like Schrödinger and Neils Bohr found while trying to establish a rationale behind the wave-particle duality of matter. But unfortunately I cannot remember or give a link on to a place where Nalin actually said it. Maybe someone else who has followed his writing can do that.

   The link to Abrahamic religions is his way of saying I believe that
   1. The giants of western science were the products of a civilization that operated on the core values originating from those religions, and were therefore consiously or unconsiously influenced by it,

   and

   2. as in the case of faith on the word of the bible, we as followers of the ‘gospel’ of western scientific thinking have more than a bit of blind faith in it’s principles; even though the scientific method suggests an objective experimental method of arriving to conclusions.

   He has also written some articles in arxiv.org which is sort of a depository site for scientific articles written by academics all over the world. You might be aware of it already. He has linked to these articles in several of his internet posts, so i don’t think that he is discouraging anyone from learning science.
   Thank you for taking the time to answer. I apologize for the tone of my previous post. But it saddened me to see him treated in a bad light. I honestly believe that his heart is in the right place, and that he has done an invaluable service in drawing attention to the wisdom and capabilities of our ancestors.

6. charithsls Says:
   September 15th, 2017 at 2:53 pm

   I’ve commented before to an article by NMY that I did not find any thing against Buddhism in a talk delivered by Nalin in the Buddhist TV but rather agreed with his views, some of which I felt at the time would not go down well with the standard Buddhists. I have supported his patriotic views appeared in this blog in the past. As Asanga says two three writers seem to be hell bent slinging mud at him & I feel probably for personal animosities. I whole heartedly agree with Nalin,if that what he meant, that having doctorates or degrees are useless in the eyes of Buddhism & I’m well qualified to admit it but it is no surprise half full pots make bigger noises. Also I feel a tendency that by some living abroad or have lived so, feel their views are superior, again I’m qualified to admit it. And all these mud slinging & character assassination are with so much Buddhist texts in those, my foot!

7. NeelaMahaYoda Says:
   September 15th, 2017 at 4:04 pm

   In addition to his foolish CHINTHANAYA, Nalin de Silva foolishly claims that Sri Lankans are not capable of producing top class scientists. He should read scientific journals to clear his mind or at least read Lankaeb.com.

   http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/01/28/cabot-professor-of-the-natural-sciences-isaac-silvera-and-post-doctoral-fellow-ranga-dias-of-sri-lankan-origin-create-metallic-hydrogen-on-earth-ending-80-year-quest-for-holy-grail-of-high-pressure/

   Professor Isaac Silvera and post-doctoral fellow Ranga Dias of Sri Lankan origin create metallic hydrogen on Earth ending 80-year quest for ‘holy grail of high-pressure physics’

   http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items01/180801-3.html
   CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE DECLARES HIS TEAM DISCOVERED LIFE FROM OUTER SPACE AT THE EDGE OF EARTH’S OWN ATMOSPHERE
   Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, the chief exponent of the theory that planets like earth have been seeded for life by comets
   An Indian and British team of scientists led by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe has declared that they have found what they called life coming from deep space in the edge of earth’s own atmosphere in the form of clumps of bacteria.
   Similarly, there are many scientists, professors, medical consultant specialists, Engineers and Bankers of Sri Lankan origin are working all over the world. When compared to other countries like India and Pakistan our contribution is much higher in relation to their population

8. Senerath Says:
   September 16th, 2017 at 2:14 am

   Senevirath,
   සමහර වෙලාවට නලින්ට පිස්සුද කියලා මටත් හිතෙනවා. 13 සංශෝධනයට විරුද්ධ නම් කිසිදිනෙක එය ඉවත් කරන්න සටනක් ගෙනියන්වා වෙනුවට ඊට සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම පක්‍ෂපාත , එයමතම ජීවත්වෙන මහින්ද පස්සේ තාමත් ඔහු යන්නේ ඇයි ?
   ඔහු ජීවත්වන්නේ සිහින ලෝකයකයි.

9. Christie Says:
   September 16th, 2017 at 8:27 am

   Rathanayaa?

10. Senevirath Says:
    September 17th, 2017 at 11:30 am

    Just now ·
    අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමාට එතුමා ගේ ජීවිත කාලය තුළ අසාධාරණ ම විවේචන එල්ල වූයේ දේශපාලනයේ යෙදුණු ඕල්කොට් බෞද්ධයන්ගෙනි. ඕල්කොට්තුමා මෙන් ම මොවුහු ද බුද්ධගයාව බේරා ගැනීමේ වැඩ පිළිවෙළට එකඟතාවක් නො දැක්වූ හ. සිංහල ජාතියෙන් බුදු දහම වෙන් කිරීමටත් බටහිර සංස්කෘතියේ ජීවත් වීමටත් ඔවුහු උත්සාහ කළ හ.
    එවකට දේශපාලනයේ නිරත ප්‍රධාන ඕල්කොට් බෞද්ධයා වූයේ ඩී.බී. ජයතිලක මහතා ය. ඩී.බී. ජයතිලක මහතා ධර්මපාලතුමා පොට්ටනි කාසිකාරයකු යැයි මුදල් වංචා කරන්නකු යැයි අභූත චෝදනාවක් කළේ ය.
    ධර්මපාලතුමා අයවැය ලේඛනයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙන් පසු ඒ චෝදනාව බිඳ වැටුණත් ඩී.බී. ජයතිලක , ඩී.එස් සේනානායක ආදී ඕල්කොට් බෞද්ධයන් ගේ බාධා කිරීම්වලට නිරන්තරයෙන් ම ලක්වන්නට ධර්මපාලතුමාට සිදු විය. අවසානයේ ධර්මපාලතුමා රට හැර ගියේ ද ඔවුන් ගේ ක්‍රියාකාරකම් හේතුවෙන් ඇති වූ කළකිරීම නිසා ය.—සිංහල බෞධ්ධයා පුවත් පත —

11. NeelaMahaYoda Says:
    September 17th, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    Senevirath

    According to the well prepared chronology of Anagarika Dharmapala’s life published in the Maha Bodhi Journal (January 1927) Vol XXXV it was very clear how he abandoned Buddhist Theosophical Society (BTS) and started developing Maha Bodhi Society which was established in May 31, 1891 to rescue the holy Buddhist places and revive the Buddha Dhamma, in the land of its origin India. As you can see from the chronology of Anagarika Dharmapala’s life, his contribution to the propagation and spread of Buddhism through Maha Bodhi Society is enormous, but contribution to education of Buddhist Children is minimal.

    Most of the time Anagarika Dharmapala was in india. In October 1904 Anagarika Dharmapala left Benares for Colombo. On the way went to Adyar to see Col. Olcott, with whom he had an altercation because Col.Olcott insulted the feelings of the Buddhists by showing disrespect to the Tooth Relic, a copy of which he had placed under a shelf. Col Olcott showed bad temper and broke off friendship with him after a period of twenty years.Since then Anagarika Dharmapala began a campaign against the Theosophical Society and that was the beginning of his unpopularity in Sri Lanka. !n 1906 D.B.Jayathillake was the Principal at Ananda college and most of the prominent Buddhists headed by D.B D.B.Jayathillake strongly opposed to his anti-Buddhist Theosophical Society position.

    The following chronology of Anagarika Dharmapala’s life shows how he suddenly became anti-Buddhist Theosophical Society after 20 years working for the Society. Naturally the Sinhala Buddhists all over the country vehemently opposed to his position.

    1n 1986
    Anagarika Dharmapala left Government Service to work in the interest and welfare of the Buddhist Theosophical Society wherein he was engaged as general secretary of the Buddhist Section, Manager of the Sandaresa paper published by the Buddhist Press. Manager of Buddhist School and Assistant Secretary of the Buddhist Defence Committee from March 1886 to December 1890.

    December 1894
    The first organised pilgrimage by Ceylon Buddhists to Buddhagaya and other places. The ladies of the party wore the traditional sari for the first time. At madras they went ashore and visited Col. Olcott at Adyar.

    In October 1904
    Anagarika Dharmapala left Benares for Colombo. On the way went to Adyar to see Col. Olcott, with whom he had an altercation because Col.Olcott insulted the feelings of the Buddhists by showing disrespect to the Tooth Relic, a copy of which he had placed under a shelf. Col Olcott showed bad temper and broke off friendship with him after a period of twenty years. The Anagarika was initiated by him in January 1884 into the Theosophical Society.

    March 1906
    Anagarika Dharmapala began a campaign against the Theosophical Society. As the local Theosophical Society was under the control of Buddhists, it was suggested that there should be harmony with Theosophy and Buddhism and wanted the name Theosophy to be eliminated. Certain members wished to retain the name and the campaign was therefore started.

    May 1906
    Established the Sinhala Bauddhaya and Maha Bodi Press

    1906
    Erection of school building at Rajagiriya on the land purchased with the donation received from Mrs. Mary Foster of Honolulu.

    May 1907
    Burmese rest house case instituted by the Hindu Mahant at Buddhagaya for the removal of the Japanese image from the Burmese rest house.
    July 1908
    House in Baniapoker Lane, Calcutta, purchased with donation received from Mrs.Mary Foster of Honolulu.

    1912
    Started National Revival and Toured all over Ceylon.

    1913
    Left for Japan and Honolulu. Met Mrs Foster at Honolulu in June1913 and from her received a splendid donation to Establish a free hospital.

    1914
    Dedicated the house and ground at Darley Lane which was given to him by his father for the use of the Buddhists under the name of Mallika Santhagara.

    1914
    Opening of the Foster Robinson Free Hospital

    1915
    Removed the Maha bodhi college to the Mallika Santhagara

    1915
    Ceylon Riots. Many Buddhists shot and he was interned in Calcutta from June 1915 to 1920.
    Meanwhile in 1916 received communication from the Government of India that they were prepared to present a Relic of the Lord Buddha to the Maha Bodhi Society if the latter would build a vihara in Calcutta. In July 1918 work started in Calcutta at College Square, No 4 to erect a Vihara.

    November 1920
    The Vihara completed and was ceremonially opened by the Governor of Bengal, Lord Ronald shay.
    November 1922
    Laying the foundation stone to build a Vihara Saranath, Banares.

    December 1926
    Arrival in Ceylon to raise a fund for the building of Mulagandhakuti Vihara, Saranath.

    1931
    Visited Ceylon for the last time and created the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust

    13th July 1931
    Ordained as a Buddhist Bhikkhu in India

    16th January 1933
    Received higher ordination

    29th April 1933
    Died at Saranath, Banares. His last words were “Let me be reborn ………I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha’s Dhamma.

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