{"id":51129,"date":"2016-01-16T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51129"},"modified":"2016-01-16T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T20:30:36","slug":"pinnacles-of-yaapalanay-sri-lankan-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/16\/pinnacles-of-yaapalanay-sri-lankan-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacles of Yaapalanay, Sri Lankan Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM\u00a0Wellington ,\u00a0New Zealand<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p>Relentlessly pursue with yet unsubstantiated allegations and litigation \u00a0the liberators of SL from three decades of terror, \u00a0release and pardon those alleged with the highest level of complicity with this terror, \u00a0remove the state obligation to protect Thervada Buddhism in Sri Lanka something which even the British undertook to do in the Kandyan Convention of 1815 (which true to the best of \u00a0 British tradition, they \u00a0paid no heed to at all) and legislate to punish and imprison the Buddhist clergy for a litany of activities which the clergy of other faiths would be free to practice, permit evangelists and NGO\u2019s aligned to them to descend &amp; proliferate in SL unchecked \u00a0 seem to be the pinnacles of good governance ( Yahapalanaya), in todays Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>On a relevant \u00a0note, on our recent visit to Sri Lanka , seeing the glittering lights of Christmas decorations &amp; Christmas fervour \u00a0strewn across the length and breadth of not only Colombo but many parts of Sri Lanka, an accompanying New Zealander not used to any where near this level of extravagance back home, \u00a0inquired innocently whether Sri Lanka was a Christian majority country. I explained that at 7% they were the smallest religious minority \u00a0behind Buddhist, Hindu\u2019s and Muslims. However \u00a0the festivity that was seen \u00a0was evidence of what a secular country Sri Lanka is.<\/p>\n<p>However, this inquiry may well be prophetic of what is likely to happen to Sri Lanka, if Yahapalanaya \u00a0is allowed to bulldoze along it\u2019s merry way unchecked, \u00a0given South Korea\u2019s experience of seeing Buddhist majority \u00a0turned into a Minority in the face rapidly expanding Christian majority in a matter of half a century.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n<p>Wellington ,<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM\u00a0Wellington ,\u00a0New Zealand Dear Editor, Relentlessly pursue with yet unsubstantiated allegations and litigation \u00a0the liberators of SL from three decades of terror, \u00a0release and pardon those alleged with the highest level of complicity with this terror, \u00a0remove the state obligation to protect Thervada Buddhism in Sri Lanka something which even the British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51129","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=51129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}