{"id":82331,"date":"2018-10-25T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82331"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:12:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:12:24","slug":"giving-proper-place-to-buddhism-is-govt-s-responsibility-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/25\/giving-proper-place-to-buddhism-is-govt-s-responsibility-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving proper place to Buddhism is govt.\u2019s responsibility \u2013 Mahinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/14\/charunya-rajakaruna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that it is the responsibility of the government to give the proper place to Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned this to the media following an event held in Ambalangoda.<\/p>\n<p>Through the 20th Amendment to the Constitution the status and the protection of Buddhism is being removed, Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the government is attempting to wash off its hands of the responsibility of nurturing Buddhism, he further said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Constitution systematically reduces status of Buddhism in it - Mahinda\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gMyA6iwWH_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that it is the responsibility of the government to give the proper place to Buddhism. He mentioned this to the media following an event held in Ambalangoda. Through the 20th Amendment to the Constitution the status and the protection of Buddhism is being removed, Rajapaksa said. Meanwhile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,125,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-mahinda-rajapaksa","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82331","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=82331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}