tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post994026919964800826..comments2024-01-20T14:08:08.057+05:30Comments on Serendipity: The Dilemma confronting the Nation – realistically how can this problem be resolved? EASY, just read. It’s easier than you may have thought.Ratmale,Minneriya,Sri Lankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252632858481217930noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post-71475435786825824272018-03-16T22:50:50.667+05:302018-03-16T22:50:50.667+05:30The term 'Sinhala buddhist' as a nationali...The term 'Sinhala buddhist' as a nationalist ideology is bogus. true Buddhists will show compassion to all living beings, not cling to an identity, and certainly will recognize the impermanence of everything. if they recognize this impermanence, they will recognize clearly that they themselves are impermanent, their surroundings are impermanent, their culture is impermanent, and thus they should not be concerned with losing their "Sinhala Buddhist" identity, as it is a given fact that will manifest according to the Buddha himself. the masses are receiving teachings regularly but what have they learned? can only Brahmins understand the teachings clearly? So what is taking place is more Sinhala nationalism if anything but Buddhism is not part of it if they are taking the teachings seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post-32401094298466282612018-03-13T16:53:23.293+05:302018-03-13T16:53:23.293+05:30Historians have a major part to play in debunking ...Historians have a major part to play in debunking this myth of Govigama supremacy. It is all in the mind. Just look at Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts for a start. When the British came to Sri Lanka around 1800, what was the population in total in those districts? At most 50,000 people. So what are we talking about ? there were more people in Jaffna then. Perhaps 500,000 people. Now the Jaffna peninsula has only 200,000 people and Polonnaruwa alone has 800,000 people so demographics can easily show how wrong some of the perceptions of people are today, they are based on myth and not fact. <br /><br />Why does no one write about it, there are all the fact and figures in the archives surely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7167149547535484177.post-37122277264389145182018-03-13T16:23:53.891+05:302018-03-13T16:23:53.891+05:30Don't forget foreigners have done more for thi...Don't forget foreigners have done more for this country than Sri Lankan lately. It is purely due to their valuing the beauty of Sri Lanka that places like the Galle Heritage City has been developed. They started gentryfying the place and locals followed suit.<br /><br />Similarly in architecture, wild life, ecology, bio diversity, environmental protection, conservation, recycling, foreigners in Sri Lanka are in the forefront.<br /><br />It is time local people truly understand that foreign influence in Sri Lanka in 2018 is very beneficial to Sri Lanka, more than being destructive like the colonialism of the past.<br /><br />They can then be brought to harness both Buddhism and Sinhala language too, though not both at the same time, as some want to study buddhism and others to study Sinhala not necessarily both as it is really not connected, though there is an uneducated class trying to connect the two, for a bogus identity called Sinhala Buddhism. the sooner this canard can be removed the easier it will be for people to be open to the ONE NATION CONCEPTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com