{"id":139717,"date":"2024-01-15T17:12:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T00:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139717"},"modified":"2024-01-15T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T00:12:28","slug":"cid-arrests-self-proclaimed-avalokiteshvara-bodhisattva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/15\/cid-arrests-self-proclaimed-avalokiteshvara-bodhisattva\/","title":{"rendered":"CID arrests self-proclaimed \u2018Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested Mahinda Kodituwakku, the self-proclaimed \u2018Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva\u2019 at Pannipitiya a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kodituwakku is accused of committing irreligious activities that are contrary to Buddhist teachings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0ddc\u0dbd\u0dd3\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0da7\u0dd4\u0d9a\u0dbb \u0d9c\u0dad\u0dca... \u0db8\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0d9c\u0dda \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dbb... \u0db8\u0dc4 \u0dbb\u0dd1 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd6 \u0dc4\u0ddc\u0db3 \u0dc4\u0ddc\u0db3 \u0dc3\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0db8\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJVOz6Jv9wk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday (12), the Colombo Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court also imposed an overseas travel ban on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, the president of Buddhist Information Centre, Ven. Agulugalle Sri Jinananda Thero had filed a complaint with the CID alleging that Kodituwakku has been misleading the Buddhist community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested Mahinda Kodituwakku, the self-proclaimed \u2018Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva\u2019 at Pannipitiya a short while ago. Kodituwakku is accused of committing irreligious activities that are contrary to Buddhist teachings. On Friday (12), the Colombo Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court also imposed an overseas travel ban on him. Earlier this week, the president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139717","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=139717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}