{"id":55233,"date":"2016-06-02T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55233"},"modified":"2016-06-02T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:25:55","slug":"re-pro-christian-constitution-aimed-at-stripping-sri-lankas-buddhist-land-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/02\/re-pro-christian-constitution-aimed-at-stripping-sri-lankas-buddhist-land-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"RE: Pro-Christian Constitution aimed at stripping Sri Lanka\u2019s Buddhist Land &#038; Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Vajiragnana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Don\u2019t be so pedantic, today we are a nation of bastards\u201d! There\u2019s no one with pure Sinhala blood\u201d running in our veins. From the time the colonists landed the country they screwed\u201d the natives spare-ring none! It is too evident even in the same family you fine siblings of different skin tones! So, it\u2019s in namesake we talk of being Sinhala and on top of it Bauddha\u201d. Ranil has a cabinet that only knows to say we accept\u201d your proposal SIR\u201d. He is the man who was hell bent on celebrating 500years of Portuguese influence in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway don\u2019t give up that easily there\u2019s the yellow brigade\u201d to keep everything in order, don\u2019t cry in advance! However I doubt very much that the young who sacrificed their lives <strong>in vain<\/strong> to free the country from a <strong>mistakenly labeled movement <\/strong>called LTTE\u201d TERRORISTS (World has excepted them as &#8220;Cuddly&#8221; pussycats) will care two hoots just to defend few <strong><em>lines in the constitution\u201d <\/em><\/strong>this time!<\/p>\n<p>All you say on Maldives is true, was once a Buddhist nation. Today the Buddhist history has been expunged from its history books and whatever remains of Buddhist architecture is being targeted and destroyed even by attacking the museum where these relics are kept. Everywhere ground is dug some Buddhist remain appears and each time that historical monument is destroyed. \u00a0They have effectively erased all evidence of our Buddhist past,\u201d a senior museum official told\u201d. That should happen wherever there appears to have presence of Buddhism!<\/p>\n<p>Just wear your thinking cap for a short while, we were told in the profound teachings of the Exalted Thathagatha that it is the task of every Bodhisattva to find the lost Dhamma, so in a future Planet where there is no Dhamma a Bodhisattva will have to <strong><em>struggle hard<\/em><\/strong> to <strong><em>discover<\/em><\/strong> the ultimate truth to become Buddha! Just like there are no free lunches!<\/p>\n<p>Then if you are fortunate enough I shall appear as &#8220;Prince Diyasena&#8221;\u00a0 to become &#8220;Maith3Buddha! to settle all the ills of the World!<\/p>\n<p>I cannot agreemore on all you have said here, but the country is in decline, so have patience till I am born again, unfortunately my early exit was prevented by my GP fixing my Triple bi-pass!<\/p>\n<p>Vajiragnana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"noUnderline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/01\/pro-christian-constitution-aimed-at-stripping-sri-lankas-buddhist-land-heritage\/\"><span class=\"news_header\">Pro-Christian Constitution aimed at stripping Sri Lanka&#8217;s Buddhist Land &amp; Heritage<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"normalTxt\"><span class=\"author\">Shenali D Waduge<\/span><br \/>\nWhen out of 19 members selected by the Prime Minister only two (Kushan de Alwis &amp; M K Nadeeka Damayanthi opposes the removal of Article 9 \u00a0it revealed beyond doubt the objective. 70% comprise Buddhists in Sri Lanka and only 2 stood for the sacrosanct status of the country&#8217;s historical ethos. The composition of the committee was clearly aimed to be a transit constitution enroute to fulfilling the unfulfilled goal of Christian colonial rulers. This constitution is nothing but a betrayal of our history, it is a conspiracy against Buddhism and the proposals to change the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/01\/pro-christian-constitution-aimed-at-stripping-sri-lankas-buddhist-land-heritage\/\">-Full Story-<\/a><\/span><span class=\"source\"> (LankaWeb &#8211; 02\/06\/16)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"psHIxJMbzD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/01\/pro-christian-constitution-aimed-at-stripping-sri-lankas-buddhist-land-heritage\/\">Pro-Christian Constitution aimed at stripping Sri Lanka\u2019s Buddhist Land &#038; Heritage<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Pro-Christian Constitution aimed at stripping Sri Lanka\u2019s Buddhist Land &#038; Heritage&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/01\/pro-christian-constitution-aimed-at-stripping-sri-lankas-buddhist-land-heritage\/embed\/#?secret=JOiKKVsimp#?secret=psHIxJMbzD\" data-secret=\"psHIxJMbzD\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vajiragnana Don\u2019t be so pedantic, today we are a nation of bastards\u201d! There\u2019s no one with pure Sinhala blood\u201d running in our veins. From the time the colonists landed the country they screwed\u201d the natives spare-ring none! It is too evident even in the same family you fine siblings of different skin tones! So, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vajiragnana-warnakulasuriya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55233","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=55233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}