{"id":104743,"date":"2020-07-22T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104743"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:52:40","slug":"pre-historic-lanka-to-united-sri-lanka-sociological-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/22\/pre-historic-lanka-to-united-sri-lanka-sociological-revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"PRE-HISTORIC LANKA TO UNITED SRI LANKA-Sociological revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"

By.Dr.Sripali Vaiamon<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Hon. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a very religious conscious kind personality.I saw recently He has gone to UDAMALUWA OF SRI MAHA BODHIYA, ANURADHAPURA and keeping askance of his face on the Bo brach with leaning his head on it in most sentimental devotion. I fully realized he is ideally matching the great Indian King Dhrmasoka who offered us the BUDDHISM to Sri Lanka, through his son, MAHINDA and daughter SANGAMMITTHA and treated every other religion as of his own by propagating through Edicts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reminds me I\nhave published so many extracts relevant to his philosophy and activities by\nBuddhist philosophers  in my VIEWS ON\nBUDDHISM, parts one to three and also about Mr.Rajapaksa\u2019s experiences and activities\non the 28th <\/sup>Oct.  just prior\nto his electionof the new post in the LANKA WEB as it will provide some help\nfor voters.Our President  with his\nbrother was fully involved in terrorist settlement until  the end of the war which went of for 25\nyears. For the information of others I will republish that short description  from my book ,PRE-HISTORIC LANKA TO END OF\nTERRORISM,PUBLISHED IN 2012.TRAFFORD PUBLISHERS,USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOST OF THE\nCOUNTRY PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE THAT THE DEFENCE SECRETARY ,WHO IS A TOWER OF\nSTRENGTH  TO THE PRESIDENT ,(MAHINDA)WAS\nAPPOINTED TO THE POST NOT MERELY BECAUSE HE IS PRESIDENT\u2019S  BROTHER BUT HE IS A HIGHLY QUALIFIED AND  HAVE  LENGTHY\nEXPERIENCE ON THE FUNCTIONS OF DEFENCE STRATEGY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HE WAS A LIEUTENANT\nCOLNEL OF THE SRI LANKA ARMY.HE JOINED THE ARMY IN 1971. HE HAS SERVED IN THE\nSINHA REGIMENT,RAJARATA RIFLES,GAJABA REGIMENT AND  VIJAYABAHU INFANTARY REGIMENT .HE SERVED IN\nTHE BATTLE FRONT OF VADAMARACHCHI IN 1987.HE HAD MILITARY TRAINING IN\nRAWALIPINDI AND QUETTA, IN PAKISTAN,JUNGLE WARFARE IN ASSAM,INDIA.FOLLOWED A\nCOMMAND AND STAFF COURSE AT DEFENCE SERVICE STAFF COLLEGE IN WELLINGTON.ADVANCE\nINFANTARY OFFICERS\u2019COURSE IN FORT BENNINGTON, \nUSA. HE HAS RECEIVED AWARDS FROM M\/S J.R.JAYAWARDANA,RANASINGHE\nPREMADASA AND D.B.WIJETUNGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a person was\nnever appointed to the post of the Defence Secretary earlier.The abominable war\nis now over so he has been added with another massive task,\u2019the urban\ndevelopment.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relevant  involvements and experiences I clearly explained\nperhaps may be useful for present context too. It was something similer to what\nDharmasoka regained  after the final\nwar,the war at KALINGA. It was at the Kalinga war he dropped all his armaments\nand ordered his battalion to drop all their weapons. When he returned to the\nPalace and seated melancholy  he saw on\nthe road a saint type young priest walking, he commanded a soldier to summon\nthe priest.When he arrived at the Palace king inquired and learnt he is novice\nNIGRODA.On request He preached pleasant discourse APPAMADA VAGGA from DAMMAPADA  and the king was fully comprehended!Therafter\nthe king  became a saint like\npersonality.Changed his name as DHARMA-SOKHA- Earlier it was Chandasoka . He\nthereafter engaged in maritorias activities immensely.This has well elaborated\nby Prof.LILY  DE SILVA IN my  BODU MATHI MATHANTARA,RELEASED BY Rev.KIRAMA\nWimalajothi thera,Buddhist Cultural centre,dehiwala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SANGAMITTA BROUGHT\nTHE BODHI SAPLING<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D.C.WIJEWARDANA  IN P.49-THE \nREVOLT IN THE TEMPLE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanghamitta\nTHERI,THE SISTER OF MAHINDA THERO,followed her brother to Ceylon that she might\nestablish THE ORDER OF THE BHIKKUNIS in \nlanka. She braught with her  a\nbranch of the sacred Bo-tree,under which Gauthama had attained Enlightemment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The branch\n,received by Tissa himself,was planted \nwith great pomp and ceremony at ANURADAPURA and still flourished\nthere.It is the oldest historical tree in the world,and object of profound\nveneration  to million of Buddhists\nthroughout the world.To this tree,the symbol of gratitude,Anuradapura,through\nall its vicissitudes of countries,owes its escape from the oblivion which has  other mighty cities elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within two\ncenturies Buddhism spread into every inhabited part of the Island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEVANAM PIYATISSA GUARDED THE\nbotree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devanam Piyatissa is reported to\nhave assumed the role of a gate-keeper for 3 days to honour the Bodhi\nTree.immediately it was braught to Ceylon. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p.63-ocial History of Ceylon-Dr.Hema\nEllawala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASOKA AFTER THE WAR.\u2014Legends of\nIndian Buddhism ——by.Eugene Burnouf–<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warrior who had\nspreaddevastation and murder throughout India began to engages in works of\npeace,in making roads,in digging of wells and planting trees,in establishing\ncharities and providing for their business like distribution.Many were the\ngreat monasteries and temples built by the converted Asoka.Throughout the vast\ndominionwhich his conquest had added to his original empire of MAGADHA.,on\npillers and on rocks he engraved the articles of Buddhist belief.These\ndescriptions are described as edicts.They are the only known contemporary\ndocuments  for the history of Asoka`s\nreign and for the study of religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 12th<\/sup> Sunday ADA\ncarried a pleasant surprise where new look has been given to the  MtLavinia beach which highlighted future\ndevelopment quite similer to the PORT CITY and the 100 projects almost\ncompleted duringthe past tenure of the former President with which contry\npeople could have fiture HOPES.–\n\nFrom \u2013sripaliv@gmail.com\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By.Dr.Sripali Vaiamon Hon. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a very religious conscious kind personality.I saw recently He has gone to UDAMALUWA OF SRI MAHA BODHIYA, ANURADHAPURA and keeping askance of his face on the Bo brach with leaning his head on it in most sentimental devotion. I fully realized he is ideally matching the great Indian King […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}