{"id":93052,"date":"2019-09-16T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93052"},"modified":"2019-09-16T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:57:31","slug":"maha-sangha-and-yahapalana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/16\/maha-sangha-and-yahapalana\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHA SANGHA AND YAHAPALANA"},"content":{"rendered":"

KAMALIKA PIERIS<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Yahapalana\u2019s attacks on the Maha Sangha are\npart of its attack on Buddhism, Buddhists and Buddhist worship. This\nanti-Buddhist strategy has clearly been planned well ahead and given to\nYahapalana to implement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka observed in 2016 we can\nsee that strategies are being discussed among various NGOs and the present\nrulers seem to be going along with them,  one instance is the Katikawata Bill,\nthe intention was to suppression of the sangha. There is no need for a Katikawata bill, the\nVinaya rules are sufficient. \nKiribathgoda Ananda has over a 1000 monks under him. They conduct\nthemselves well.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uduwe Dhammaloka continued, there is now a\nmove by NGOs to say that ordaining young boys as monks is child abuse.  We know that as far as Buddhism is concerned\nadult ordination will never work. Monks have to be ordained when they are young\notherwise they will never be able to conduct themselves in a manner required of\nmonks. We now see subtle attempt to portray the ordination of children as child\nabuse. There was a video clip of a young samanera crying for his mother that\nwas shared on social media networks some time ago. These subtle campaigns which\nstrike at the very root of Sinhala Buddhist culture. If child ordination is\neliminated the sangha will be gone in one generation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Derana   news on 10.9.19 showed a young man\nrepeatedly slapping two samanera bhikkhus repeatedly for allegedly taking an\nitem from a shop. An onlooker came forward and stopped him but only after about\nhalf a dozen slaps had been given. The next day Derana news showed the two\nsamanera in hospital. The man was arrested and the camera showed him\napologizing for his action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samanera bhikkhus are also featured elsewhere.\nThe popular teledrama \u2018Sidu\u2019 features a village temple, its chief priest, his\nassistant Ven.  Rahula and two little\nsamaneras, Soratha and Subhoda. \u2018Sidu\u2019 thus shows the three levels of bhikkhus\nin the Sangha community, senior, middle and junior, their role and the\ndifference in attitude among them.  The\nsamanera are shown to be normal, mischievous little boys, training to be\npriests. Before it became a soap opera, Sidu\u201d was a lovely film. Buddhist\nphilosophy was  woven beautifully\ninto  a relaxing film which offered,  suspense, melodrama, excitement, \u2018pight\u2019,\n\u2018comit\u2019 and \u2018luv\u2019.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The international conspiracy leaders have\nstudied the Sangha as individuals and selected the most suitable bhikkhus for\nwhat they had in mind. These handpicked monks talk and behave in a manner\ndesigned to turn Buddhists against Buddhism. That is the nature of the\nconspiracy. Getting the monks involved\nis part of the conspiracy. This has also happened in Burma where monks were\nbrought into disrepute., said Uduwe Dhammaloka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a small group of monks playing a\nmajor role in creating disturbances in the country.  They paved the way for the present government\nto come to power. These monks were completely unheard of until they started\ncreating disturbances on the streets. This is a small minority of monks with\nsuspicious linkages to the west.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is these monks who were arrested at\nHomagama. They were brought to court\nlike criminals with their heads covered, Things that were not done even in\ncolonial times are being done now. Our\nmonks are now aware of what is going on, we discuss these matters, concluded\nUduwe Dhammaloka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pin\npettiya in temples is also targeted. Some time ago, the pin petti of Alutgama\nand Dambulla viharas were sealed by the Department of Buddhist Affairs. The\npublic protested and the Department gave in. In\nSeptember 2019 another round of pin petti sealing  started. The pin petti at Badulla raja Maha\nvihara were sealed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September\n2019, the audit Division of the Department of Buddhist affairs had come\nTissamaharama Raja Maha vihara to do a surprise check of its pin petti. The\npetti were sealed to be taken for examination to the Department of Buddhist\nAffairs. The auditors has said that the temple had not maintained proper\nrecords of the pin petti money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The\nchief priests at Tissamaharama told Derana that they were unable to get the\nmoney they needed for the next perahera due to the bomb blast. They needed\nabout 1.3  million .They needed  another 50 lakhs or so, to keep the chaitya\nwhitewashed and  pay the workers and feed\nthem for about two or three months. The Chief priest also observed that there\nwas a Christian Church in Tissamaharama which had about three hundred acres of\nland. Are they checking there as well, he asked. ( This is an extract from the\nrevised version of   Yahapalana versus\nMaha Sangha Pt 4\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KAMALIKA PIERIS Yahapalana\u2019s attacks on the Maha Sangha are part of its attack on Buddhism, Buddhists and Buddhist worship. This anti-Buddhist strategy has clearly been planned well ahead and given to Yahapalana to implement. Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka observed in 2016 we can see that strategies are being discussed among various NGOs and the present rulers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kamalika-pieris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93052","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=93052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}