{"id":73258,"date":"2017-12-30T03:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T10:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73258"},"modified":"2017-12-30T03:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T10:55:01","slug":"eastern-governors-wife-interferes-in-temple-issue-is-it-reconciliation-sanhindiyawa-%e0%b7%83%e0%b6%82%e0%b7%84%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b3%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/30\/eastern-governors-wife-interferes-in-temple-issue-is-it-reconciliation-sanhindiyawa-%e0%b7%83%e0%b6%82%e0%b7%84%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b3%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%80\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Governor&#8217;s wife interferes in temple issue- Is it reconciliation ( Sanhindiyawa\u00a0\u00a0 \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0\u00a0)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We all know that most of the wives of discarded politicians visit Kali Amma Kovil in Modera \u2013Colombom15 . These wives visit the Kovil to curse on the opposition members begging divine help to bring the husbands to power .I wonder whether the VIP visited the Kovil to seek divine help ?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure this Kovil in Muttur has been a place where Adivasi Tamil speaking community patronize \u00a0to seek help to punish people who may have done something wrong to them.<\/p>\n<p>If it is a historical Buddhist archeological site, independent commission should be formed with members of Buddhist clergy\u00a0\u00a0 and ascertain the correctness the claims by \u00a0both parties.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sarath301217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sarath301217.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sarath301217-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If one visits Kathatagama Devalaya .one can see the prominence is given to God Kathargama who is a Hindu God and Buddhist Temple ,Bo tree and all other gods of your choice are given a place inside the premised .<\/p>\n<p>During this period of reconciliation ( Sanhindiyawa\u00a0\u00a0 \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0\u00a0)\u00a0 <strong>spearheaded<\/strong> by none other than Ex-President of Sri Lanka ( Whose father was instrumental in creating the rift between two nationalities for political gains and killed by a Buddhist monk) ,Mrs Chandika Bandaranayake \u00a0can chair the commission and find an amicable solution to this Temple \/Kovil problem .<\/p>\n<p>My suggestion is to provide space for both communities to pray the god they prefer if they wish.<\/p>\n<p>Real Buddhist should preach Metta .Karuna and act with Upeksha \u00a0and preach for reconciliation .<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0 We all know that most of the wives of discarded politicians visit Kali Amma Kovil in Modera \u2013Colombom15 . These wives visit the Kovil to curse on the opposition members begging divine help to bring the husbands to power .I wonder whether the VIP visited the Kovil to seek divine help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73258","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=73258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}