{"id":78537,"date":"2018-06-19T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78537"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:30:19","slug":"buddha-civaraya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/19\/buddha-civaraya\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddha civaraya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pannadasa Punchihewa\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The demonstration by the Maha Sangha over the Rev .Gnanasara issue yesterday, as befitting the Sangha was very orderly, and restrained although according to some reports more than thousands participated. Demonstrations had also taken place in other places like Moneragala,Padukka,Tissamaharama and Badulla showing the wide spread discontent of the Buddhist public .This is one of the rare occasions when the Members of the Maha Sangha came out in such numbers on a matter of great importance.<\/p>\n

In the Buddhist countries it is a well-known fact that the Buddha civaraya<\/em> is held in the highest esteem .I am told that in 1942 when the Japanese attacked Ceylon, a low flying plane over Kelaniya<\/em> hit a temple premises and a British soldier who was running\u00a0 to save his life fell on the ground. A Buddhist priest seeing him, removed his upper robe and threw it over the British soldier. The Jap plane came down further down, noticed \u00a0the yellow robe and \u00a0returned to the base without attacking.<\/p>\n

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Buddha civaraya \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>is the world\u2019s oldest uniform .It had not changed over the last 2,600 years in the Theravada tradition .At the end of Vas season even the cloth that is taken around the villages in the early hours of the morning\u00a0 is held in high esteem even though\u00a0 that\u00a0 would be turned to a full pledged civarya <\/em>only after several hours.<\/p>\n

So it is nothing but correct that the Buddha civaraya be treated with the due respect it deserves.<\/p>\n

However it is surprising that particularly the English media seems to have played down the significance of the yesterday\u2019s event comparing to the publicity received by trade union activities of other organizations. Was there an unseen hand working to partially black out the publicity?<\/p>\n

A leading monk while addressing the gathering said If the sad situation continue they might refuse to participate in state functions\u00a0 .There have been instances when such action brought redress\u00a0 to others earlier!<\/p>\n

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Pannadasa Punchihewa\u00a0 The demonstration by the Maha Sangha over the Rev .Gnanasara issue yesterday, as befitting the Sangha was very orderly, and restrained although according to some reports more than thousands participated. Demonstrations had also taken place in other places like Moneragala,Padukka,Tissamaharama and Badulla showing the wide spread discontent of the Buddhist public .This is […]<\/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-78537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78537","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=78537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}