, we have “Blame me on the Divine”. For Sri Lankan readers, the contradictions inherent in racism are illustrated by Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933).The Buddhism he carried to India and to the West was a world religion, a lofty and noble Buddhism which was not sectarian but broad and...
the ideology “nation-building.” What Anagarika Dharmapala brought is nothing but the face of nationalism. Later in 1956, the Sinhala-only-bill was a result of this nation-building ideology, and it has offered us several damages. If Sri Lanka had followed or rather fixed in the philosophica...
Sinhala nationalists and propagandists link the SLFP’s win to the anti-colonial struggle, and depict the party as the successor to the martyrs of the Uva Wellassa Rebellion, Weera Puran Appu, and Anagarika Dharmapala. The nationalists’ explanation of what went wrong after 1956 is that Band...
The revolution, of course, had to start from somewhere. That somewhere was not the Buddhist Renaissance which both Colonel Olcott and Dharmapala inaugurated right before they parted ways. That somewhere was not the search for the hela basa that Munidasa Cumaratunga launched, successfully, until ...
After nearly one thousand years of indigenisation and integration with Sinhalese, Tamils, Buddhists, Hindus and Christians,Anagarika Dharmapala, the father of Buddhist nationalism, branded all Muslims aliens and demanded them to be repatriated to Arabia, a sentiment that echoes in the propaganda slogan...
that too fell under the might of British colonialists in that year and the whole country was under foreign rule till 1948. There is no doubt that these conquests by alien powers and the foremost place accorded to Christianity wounded deeply the Buddhist soul. Anagarika Dharmapala’s Buddhist ...
f)An extremist S-B outfit such as the BBS; incompetent amateurs. I have asked many friends what they think. Everyone agreed that the suspects in the ESB event had to be confined to this set and that this approach was logical and reasonable. No one even mentioned (f). I guess they hav...
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/planning-for-a-year-of-elections/ . There is no guarantee that they will be published. . Panini Edirisinhe 10 S-M When Gotta announced any one can come and take over,no one didn’t come forward, people were cueing up for days to get the ...
Dr. Matara Gunapala Once celebrated as the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean,’Sri Lanka‘s stunning natural beauty, diverse landscapes, and rich cultural heritage were complemented by a dynamic economy. Its tropical climate, fertile soil, valuable resources like precious stones, renowned t...
Anagarika Dharmapala Ratnajeevan Hoole:Heritage Histories: A Reassessment of Arumuga Navalar John Howard Griffin:Black Like Me Martin Jacques: ‘The Global Hierarchy of Race’,Guardian, 20 September 2003 Steven Kemper:Rescued From the Nation: AnagarikaDharmapala and the Buddhist World ...