{"id":85963,"date":"2019-02-28T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85963"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:51:27","slug":"while-sri-lanka-tamils-do-not-want-buddhisisation-of-north-a-portuguese-buddhist-monks-initiates-buddhisisation-of-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/28\/while-sri-lanka-tamils-do-not-want-buddhisisation-of-north-a-portuguese-buddhist-monks-initiates-buddhisisation-of-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"While Sri Lanka Tamils do not want Buddhisisation of\u00a0 North, a Portuguese Buddhist Monks initiates\u00a0 Buddhisisation of Portugal."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Suren Raghavan, immediately after being appointed as the Governor of Northern Province announced \u00a0that he is against Buddhisisation of the North. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Well he is not alone, there are many more Tamil politicians still with their Dravidian instincts like that of \u00a0animals, such as the TNA MP the Christian Tamil Sumandiran, who wants to distance Tamils and Jaffna Tamils from the teachings of \u00a0the Compassionate \u00a0Buddha. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But this stupid statement coming from a Governor of a Province is not tolerable. A Governor is the representative of the President of Sri Lanka in the respective Province. He should be the uniting force that brings the people-the Communities in to the national fold. He should be a symbol of unity in the Province to bring the people \u00a0together, not to separate them. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Governor Suren Raghavn has a Doctorate\u00a0 in Federalism, that does not put him into the category of an intellectual, as much as Wignesvaran, who had spent all his professional life as a Judge dealing with thieves and criminals who have rubbed off their\u00a0 evil thinking \u00a0to Wignesvaran. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore these ignorant morons have no minds to think positively and constructively. They do not know what a priviledge it is to live \u00a0in the land sanctified \u00a0\u00a0by the visit of the Compassionate \u00a0Buddha long before the Dravidians had even heard of Jaffna- Jaffna -the land of the Nagas. <\/strong><\/p>\n

These unfortunate Tamils are ignorant that today\u00a0 learned men all over the world- academicians, scientists and psychiatrists\u00a0 are awakening to the teachings of the \u00a0Buddha, and accepting the teachings and setting up temples and Buddhist Centres of Buddhist Studies in USA, \u00a0Europe and in far away Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suren Raghavan when he is planning to stop Buddhisisation of \u00a0Jaffna, a group of savage Dravidians in Mulathivu occupied the Mulathivu Nayaru Khandha Ancient Buddhist Temple on the Pongal day, threatened the resident monk Venerable Kolamba Medalankara Kiththi Nayaka thero and dug a foundatiuon for a Kovil in the Temple premises. In which century are they ? Are \u00a0there\u00a0 civilised people living in the North?<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/divaina.com\/sunday\/index.php\/visheshanga1\/7975-2019-01-17-09-04-54<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is interesting in this context to see what is happening in Portugal. A Portuguese man who is ordained\u00a0 as a\u00a0 Buddhist Monk Ajhan Dhammiko, \u00a0understanding the great teachings of the Buddha, considering that the Portuguese had \u00a0wronged the Sri Lankans by converting them to Christianity, has built\u00a0 a Buddhist Monastery\u00a0 called Sumedharama which \u00a0spreads out over 25 acres of land in Lisbon, wants to compensate Sri Lanka\u00a0 for the wrongs done to the people of Sri Lanka by the Portuguese, by spreading the teachings of Buddha in Portugal. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But this uninformed ignorant Raghavan \u00a0speaks of Buddhism as a plague with which he does not want to infect his people in the North. Raghavan is also a Christian with a special devotion to Jesus , who according to some historians was in India, \u00a0and was \u00a0perhaps a disciple of the Buddha. Is Suren Raghavan a civilised man ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not strange that Sri Lankan Tamil politicians have an aversion to Buddha and his teachings, as \u00a0their mental development has still not gone beyond their ancestral Dravidian instinct to understand the greatness of the teachings of the Buddha. Hence they rejects Buddhism \u00a0as a blind man kicks a jewel he steps on while walking, not knowing what it is. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore Raghavan as much as other anti Buddhists Tamils amoung the TNA MPs having the same Dravidian Genes still do not know the value of the Buddha and his teachings. They prefer the blood soaked floors of Kali Temples, to a clean peaceful simplicity of a Buddhist temple.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having primitive Dravidian genes is not a disease or an unsurmountable handicap, but the Tamil politicians thrive living with this \u00a0undeveloped mindsets and do not allow the poor Tamils to rise above these ethnic handicaps. These Tamils activists be they TNA politicians or of other political or non political groups are all the same. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore, it is best that the Sinhala people who wants a true unity with the Tamil Community think even for an instance they have found hope for such a unity in \u00a0Arun of the AAWA Group, because it was evident from the interview with him carried out by the Derana TV that he is a big farce, a trickster, he is not \u00a0different from the Tamil politicians from the North or the Tamils of the diaspora..<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ordinary Tamils are beautiful people. We know many like Muralitharan, Kanthar Balanathan , and\u00a0 Dr. Nadesan from Australia who are wonderful people who like to have close contact with Sinhala people and even accept and respect Buddhism. ( I have visited Jaffna where I met my friend Radha Manohar , and his family and friends who received \u00a0me with sincere affection. I do not want to hurt their sensitivity by any of what I have written against the Tamil Politicians and their ilk). <\/strong><\/p>\n

The ordinary Tamil people in the North \u00a0cannot be ruled out as anti Sinhala Buddhists. It is the Tamil politicians of the TNA who keep the ordinary Tamil people from demonstrating\u00a0 their affection to the Sinhala people. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It was seen recently where the villagers of Visvamaduma in Jaffna gathered to bid farewell to Colonel Ratnapriya Bandu who was leaving the Military Camp on transfer. The people surrounded him weeping and lamenting. They garlanded him and held onto him as he was one of their beloved elder relative.\u00a0 Suren Raghavan should goto Visvamaduva and ask the villagers what was the reason for them to show such warm affection to that Sinhala Military officer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The politically motivated Tamils are ready to reproach\u00a0 and accuse the Sinhala political leaders and the Afrmy, but none comes forward to speak gratefully of them, who had helped the ordinary Tamil people to live peacefully and in security having saved them from the clutches of terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not too late for Governor Raghavan \u00a0to learn a little about the teachings of the \u00a0Buddha if he wants \u00a0to be a suitable man to be the Governor of the Northern Province. <\/strong><\/p>\n

During the time of the Most Compassionate Buddha in India there were 62 different philosophies in the North of India . The South was where the Dravidians had been chased\u00a0 \u00a0by the advancing Aryans.\u00a0 The Dravidians or the Tamils had more primitive religious worships and it was later that a cannibalised\u00a0 form of \u00a0Hinduism came to be practiced; prominent amoung them the worship of \u00a0Goddess Kali.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no mention of the Buddha Visiting South India.\u00a0 Even today the Tamils, \u00a0except the Dalits, \u00a0\u00a0have not accepted the teachings of the Buddha. The Tamils of Jaffna do not seem to know that the Compassionate Buddha had visited Jaffna. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They prefer their primitive religious practicesn and \u00a0insult and despise the great teachings with which they have been priviledged to live side by side. Even though the decorated Mandapas of\u00a0 Hindu Temple in\u00a0 North India are beautifully crafted, the Gopurams of \u00a0Hindu Kovils in South India and in Sri Lanka are ugly and frightful with large eyed, big bellied, large breasted fantasy figures of Yakshas and Yakshanis. <\/strong><\/p>\n

There were very few Buddhist in South India when Venerable Buddhaghosa was engaged to translate into Pali the commentaries to the teachings of the Buddha made in Sinhala by great Buddhist monks \u00a0and perhaps Noble Arahaths.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

That was perhaps a mistake done by Venerable Revata Maha Thero of Mahavihara. Perhaps Venerable Buddhaghosa did a good translation of those Commentaries and prepared the Visuddhimagga. But no one could \u00a0verify what he had included in it and what he had not.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Venerable Buddhaghiosa before he became a Buddhist monk, was a South Indian Hindu who was learned in the Vedic literature, therefore there is no doubt that he had \u00a0included in Vi<\/strong>suddhimagga his own Hindu views as for instances the 40 objects of meditation which had not been mentioned by the Buddha in his discourses such as Maha Satipatthana Sutta.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the Commentaries\u00a0 in Sinhala had been handed over to Venerable Buddhaghosa giving him a carte blanche \u00a0for their translation. Mahavihara Bikkhus had trusted him and no one had even been given to assist him. Therefore it is questionable whether Ven. Buddhagosa read and understood correctly the Sinhala commentaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no way to verify the correctness \u00a0of the Pali text of Ven. Buddhaghosa by comparing it to the original Sinhala commentaries as it is said that Venerable Buddhaghosa after writing the Visuddhimagga burnt all Sinhala commentaries that had been handed over to him, without leaving any trace of them.\u00a0 That was a great act of betrayal as those original commentaries were of immense importance.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

That is how South Indian mentality worked even at that time.\u00a0 Destruction of Buddhism is in the genes of the Tamils. Venerable Buddhaghosa\u00a0 should have respected the ancient Sinhala Commentaries and handed them\u00a0 back to Mahavihara. But he probably wanted credit for himself for what is \u00a0written in \u00a0the Visuddhimagga..<\/strong><\/p>\n

But these present day assailants of Buddhism do not understand that it is Buddhism that Identifies Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Suren Raghavan says that the terrorist war was a one-sided victory. All victories are one sided and there is nothing intellectual about his pronouncement.\u00a0 He calls the present situation a period of victors justice\u201d Perhaps the appointment of \u00a0Suren Raghavan was another attempt in reconciliation which has badly \u00a0misfired. It is better that a Sinhala Buddhist is appointed as the Governor of the Northern Province and remove Suren Raghavan as he is a misfit as a Governor of the Nothern Province .<\/p>\n

The ordinary Tamils in the North and East will certainly prefer to have a Sinhala Buddhist as their Governor as they can expect justice and a fair deal from a Sinhala Buddhist Governor. It is only the extremist Tamil politicians that would\u00a0 protest against a Sinhala Buddhist as a Governor in the North or East.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera Suren Raghavan, immediately after being appointed as the Governor of Northern Province announced \u00a0that he is against Buddhisisation of the North. Well he is not alone, there are many more Tamil politicians still with their Dravidian instincts like that of \u00a0animals, such as the TNA MP the Christian Tamil Sumandiran, who wants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85963","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=85963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}