{"id":52700,"date":"2016-03-08T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52700"},"modified":"2016-03-08T01:54:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T08:54:24","slug":"a-peep-into-the-past-of-the-state-of-buddhism-prevailing-in-burma-and-sri-lanka-circa-1903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/08\/a-peep-into-the-past-of-the-state-of-buddhism-prevailing-in-burma-and-sri-lanka-circa-1903\/","title":{"rendered":"A peep into the past of the state of Buddhism prevailing in Burma and Sri Lanka ( circa 1903 )"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buddhism – \u00a0The Illustrated Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 \u00a0(September 1903) \u00a0Published in Rangoon, Burma\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Disquieting News from Ceylon ( 1903)<\/p>\n

The British Colonial Govt. reneges on promises made to the Buddhists<\/p>\n

Lack of Religious Toleration<\/p>\n

Desecration of the sacred relics of antiquity at Anuradhapura – unworthy of a civilized Government<\/p>\n

Leadership given by Walisinghe Harischandra to disperse angry crowds rioting in Anuradhapura in protest against constant disregard of their religious sentiments by the colonial authorities<\/p>\n

For details please read the account prepared by Burmese Buddhists after their visit to Ceylon in 1903\u00a0in pages 149 – 151 appended below<\/p>\n

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An Account of the work of the YMBA under the direction of D.B. Jayatilaka, the indefatigable Principal of Ananda College, who was also the Editor of the ‘Buddhist’ Magazine ( page 170 )
\nYMBA was then located at 61, Maliban Street, Pettah, Colombo<\/p>\n

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A Brief Report on the work of Anagarika Dharmapala (then called as Mr. H. Dharmapala) overseas and Walisinghe Harischandra at Anuradhapura ( page 172)<\/p>\n

\"Buddhism08A\"A Brief Account on the adoption of modern methods of disseminating the Dhamma at the Maitriya Dharmasala ( Maitriya Hall ) at Lauries Road, Bambalapitiya and the work of the Vidyodaya Pirivena under the direction of Ven. Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayake Thero ( page 173 )<\/p>\n

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Buddhism – \u00a0The Illustrated Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 \u00a0(September 1903) \u00a0Published in Rangoon, Burma\u00a0 Disquieting News from Ceylon ( 1903) The British Colonial Govt. reneges on promises made to the Buddhists Lack of Religious Toleration Desecration of the sacred relics of antiquity at Anuradhapura – unworthy of a civilized Government Leadership given by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52700","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=52700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}