{"id":44735,"date":"2015-06-16T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T02:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44735"},"modified":"2015-06-16T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:58:03","slug":"unethical-practices-hijacking-buddhist-architecture-and-projecting-as-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/06\/16\/unethical-practices-hijacking-buddhist-architecture-and-projecting-as-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Unethical Practices : Hijacking Buddhist architecture and projecting as Christian!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/span>450 years of foreign invasion & occupation, 133 years of British rule cannot replace 2300 years of Sinhala Buddhist rule but they keep trying and gaining ground too. 67 years of post-independence where former colonies remain tied to and enslaved by colonial systems cannot be allowed to continue the hidden objective of removing the Sinhala Buddhist identity and denationalizing the people to facilitate foreign agendas that aspire to replace our historic culture, heritage, religion with theirs in a carefully hidden program being implemented across all former colonies still.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>We need to realize and address the covert and over attempts to systematically change Sri Lanka\u2019s identity of 2300 years of Buddhist governance following dasa raja dhamma ethics and ethical livelihood which even Indian invaders followed and the legacy of heritage, culture and irrigation marvels that continue to baffle modern day engineers.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0That the objective of Western colonials was to replace Buddhism with Christian rule is evident by the manner Portuguese, Dutch and British went on a systematic campaign to kill Sinhalese, destroy Buddhist architecture, heritage and eventually resorted to converting Buddhists dividing them into Christians\/Catholics. In short the objective of Western colonial rulers was to break the national identity and to do that it was necessary to divide or destroy the Sinhala Buddhists. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The same was done to Hindus of India. The historical colonial injustices remain unapologized, unaccounted and not even compensated while post-independence injustices are being carefully camouflaged. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0It is on the virtue of the 2300 years of Buddhist governance that even when the Sinhale nation was ceded by traitors to the British in 1815 the Kandyan Convention assured to protect the placed of Buddhism. Article 9 of Sri Lanka\u2019s Constitution is merely a continuation of the 2300years Buddhist governance that prevailed. It is nothing that anyone can make objections to and nothing they should try to change and successive governments whatever their personal or party ideologies are should not be allowed to legally\/constitutionally change this historical identity and replace it with another! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Attempts have been made through traitors of Sri Lanka to even change the place given historically to Buddhism. Sri Lanka\u2019s Constitution has a separate chapter (2) Article 9 that declares The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty of the State to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana while assuring to all religions the rights granted by Articles 10 and 14(1) (e).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Abrahamic religions continue to flirt with local traitors to dilute the place of Buddhism in an effort that remains enshrined in their mission\/vision & objectives whatever they say otherwise. Massive funds are allocated for this effort that the Sinhala Buddhists or even Tamil Hindus can only match by awareness. The introduction of liberal notion multiculturalism is meant to declare all religions\/cultures\/history as equal when it is not so. It is nations that do not have a culture\/heritage or history that jumps on the bandwagon to gain via modern liberal movements what they historically do not possess.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The manner in which historical architecture has become victim goes to show a sinister plan to remove historical artefacts\/evidence and slowly adopt Abrahamic symbols into whatever ancient architecture remains. The grand plan is to replace historical Buddhist architecture and identify it with Abrahamic and change historical records completely because even the education system denies students their right to know what really took place in the past and students are shown a history that craftily denies and omits the crimes of the Abrahamic religions and their leaders upon Third World nations. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The example to elucidate the manner in which a subtle attempt is being made to hijack Buddhist architecture can be seen on the postage stamp issued by the Sri Lanka Post on 13 January 2015 to commemorate the visit of the Pope.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The stamp shows a Buddhist Dagoba with a Christian cross. Anyone not aware of Sri Lanka\u2019s Buddhist past would think that the structure is Christian. The immediate defense would be to say we are jumping to conclusions making mountains out of molehills\u2026read further to see if we ignored bringing these aspects to light what would eventually happen to the Vedic religions presently being targeted!<\/div>\n

Moreover is there no one in the postal department that questioned why a Buddhist symbol should be projected alongside a Pope? The Dagoba has nothing to do with the Church or the Pope. Why has the Buddhist Sangha or Buddhist organizations not objected? The lack of objections inspires these mischief makers to continue to obliterate history and with time people will begin to accept Buddhist architecture as equivalent to Christian\/Catholicism (which is what the ultimate objective is) Otherwise why should Christian Sunday Schools be also referred to as Dhamma (Both Christians and Islam are using this word) The immediate defence when questioned is to say that it is on the gesture of peaceful coexistence and the much battered word \u2018reconciliation\u2019!<\/p>\n

What is obviously happening is what the Portuguese, Dutch, the British and the Church could not do directly they are getting the local traitors to agree to do \u2013 the examples of what is taking place in East Timor, South Korea and even India suffices for the need to oppose and point out the wrongs taking place.<\/p>\n

Church uses the process of inculturation with an aim to adopt Vedic (Buddhist & Hindu) cultural practices to confuse, corrupt and change the minds\u00a0of the gullible masses.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Some examples :<\/span><\/p>\n