{"id":67775,"date":"2017-07-12T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T22:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67775"},"modified":"2017-07-12T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T22:46:29","slug":"cave-temples-buddhist-monks-catholic-churches-and-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/12\/cave-temples-buddhist-monks-catholic-churches-and-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"CAVE TEMPLES ,BUDDHIST MONKS ,CATHOLIC\u00a0 CHURCHES AND MOSQUES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I read with intrigue about the income generates in Damubulle Cave Temple by charging exorbitant amounts from Foreigners. It seems that temple care takers have been also running TV stations .Income generated by the temple should be used for betterment of Buddhist Temples and the poor people in the world .Unfortunately the monks in charge of these temples \u00a0have been collecting and stashing the donations \u00a0.When you go to the cave temple one or two caretakers loiter around and foreigners keep touching and some times leaning against statues ,posing for photos and nobody strictly\u00a0 follow the rules .<\/p>\n

Even though I am a Buddhist I have visited Kochikade Church in Colombo and Indigolle church in Gampaha where you could see many Buddhist and none Buddhist visitors patronize in large numbers They do not charge entry fees ,but there is a sizeable collection of donations collected in the tills .<\/p>\n

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According to a Vatican report, in 2007, donations amounted to $79,837,843. In\u00a0 2006, it was $101,900,192. The United States was the biggest donor,\u00a0 giving some 28% of the total, followed by Italy, Germany, Spain, France,\u00a0 Ireland, Brazil and South Korea. In 2008, donations totaled $75.8\u00a0 million, $82,529,417 in 2009, $67,704,416.41 in 2010 and $69,711,722.76\u00a0 in 2011. These monies are used to fund the mission of the Vatican and its work throughout the world among the needy.<\/p>\n

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I asked a Catholic friend of mine about the way they manage the collections ,and I was told that every church in the world has to keep strict accounts and inform Vatican about the income. Vatican decides where the money should go for propagation of religion or building more churches .<\/p>\n

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Although Sri Lanka is a secular state, the new Constitution re-emphasises that Buddhism is the state religion and belief in the concept of Buddhist supremacy remains widespread.<\/em><\/strong>Buddhist monks, who are influential in the villages, are the main source of persecution for Christians. Services and prayer meetings have been stopped and church buildings attacked by mobs, often led by Buddhist monks. Pastors are most vulnerable. Pressure is also felt by believers from Buddhist, Muslim or Hindu backgrounds who are seen as traitors and consequently subjected to physical and verbal assaults<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There was another paper advertisement in where London Muslim Collective asking for Sakat ^ for various services in\u00a0 Muslims in other\u00a0 countries Rohingya \u00a0muslims in Burma who have been persecuted\u00a0 by Buddhist was one sector they watred to help\u00a0 in addition to sending money to Palestine<\/p>\n

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Muslim Aid on the ground:<\/em><\/p>\n

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  • Building 5,000 homes in addition to 300 homes built earlier this year<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Rebuilt and refurbished 6 schools<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Built two health clinics in Sittwe<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Providing education to over 8700 children every year<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The people of Myanmar desperately need your help!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Should our Buddhist monks can think of using the income to be used for a society where they are needed where Buddhists are persecuted ?<\/p>\n

    They try to meddle in politics and completely forgot about their mission as preached by Buddha ?<\/p>\n

    Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 I read with intrigue about the income generates in Damubulle Cave Temple by charging exorbitant amounts from Foreigners. It seems that temple care takers have been also running TV stations .Income generated by the temple should be used for betterment of Buddhist Temples and the poor people in the world .Unfortunately the […]<\/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-67775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67775","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=67775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}