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Hindus set to convert to Buddhism
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tigeress19
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15 Oct 2006 13:04:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dillont
no, the admin may wanted to enlighten the southern folks that they are one time tamils. |
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15 Oct 2006 13:09:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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no, the admin may wanted to enlighten the southern folks that they are one time tamils.
I DO NOT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE SAID BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE GERMAN ARTICLE??
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15 Oct 2006 13:17:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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German sanctions are good and i would like to see more EU countries stopping aids to the pariah state srilanka.
yes the admin could have gave priority to that article but did not.
well i will send him a link, let see if he will put it for discussions. |
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no, the admin may wanted to enlighten the southern folks that they are one time tamils
If SInhalese were tamils sometime back, all tamils will become Sinhalese in the future.
So tamils are fighting with their future generation.
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15 Oct 2006 13:25:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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More freezing seems likely to this 'pariah state' as you put it should the present trend continue...
Mr.Browns have put that article in 'another section' of the website that is very often 'overlooked'.....Business Section... |
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15 Oct 2006 13:27:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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What is surprising is not that Dalits are running away from caste-laden Hinduism but they are doing it so slowly and in long intervals. 50 years since Ambedkar and still there are large numbers of Dalits who are Hindus. Something wrong somewhere. Any body care to explain?
Probably has to do with measures introduced by Dr Ambedkar, in the Constitution he wrote for India. Via provisions for higher education for 'dis-advantaged peoples', large numbers of so-called 'low-caste' folk were able to advance, go to university, and secure well-paying jobs. You may see a parallel in the advancement of afro-americans in the US. The intelligentsia emerging from the 'bed-rock' of dalits, I believe, in large measure were content with their lot, and ignored the rest still trapped into 'dis-advantageous circumstances'. Comes a 'breaking-point', and you have people coming forward - as in the present instance - from amongst the dalit community to voice their dis-satisfaction, and to do some-thing about it.
Conversion of 2,500 or even double that number is not going to solve this issue. Would be more appropriate, if the Indian Govt were to address this subject, squarely - of integrating its dis-advantaged people.
Edited By - SenaM - 15 Oct 2006 13:34:42 GMT |
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What this news article does not say is that tens of thousands have been converted to Christianity in India and Sri Lanka through unscrupulous means by thousands of Christian Missionaries, compared to few that have been converted to Buddhism through genuine understanding.
It is a sad fact that Christian Missionaries exploit weaknesses in societies and cultures to take advantage to convert them to their faith. Christianity is the most commercialised religion in the world circulating Trillions of Dollars around the world, controlling world-economies, nations, the UN, the EU and the global arms trade. |
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15 Oct 2006 15:23:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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the present day Sinhalese are one time Tamils who were discriminated by the Hindu caste system.
caste system is a horrible subject to talk but you keep claiming that low caste tamils became sinhalase later. I think you have missed the fundamentals.
To make it simple let me remind you that tamils and Sinhalese are races and Hindu and Buddhism are religious. Both Sinhalase and Tamils have their own caste systems.
Tamil has two caste system and one confined to the north and the other to the east. Like wise Sinhalese have two different systems in the west and the south.
Hindus are discriminated by caste system but Buddhism has no influence by caste system. So that hindus become Buddhist to enjoy that freedom. Once they converted they became Tamil-Buddhist.
May be you are not aware that the caste system still exists amongst sinhalase. Caste played major in the past but today it is insignificant. Budhism is not the only reason to deny the caste based discrimination; people have changed their attitude and they are educated enough to realize the stupidity.
But you may notice that caste system still matters for some sinhalase especially in marriages.
Since both races have caste system, converting one's race (in this case becoming sinhslase) does not help her to get rid of the discrimination based on the castes. Those tamil who converted to sinhalase had to adopt another caste system definitely. it simply don't make sense. Low caste tamil would have enjoyed the benefit by changing their religion but not the race so that they are still tamil but budhist and less discriminated.
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15 Oct 2006 17:13:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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This is interesting..few days ago tigeress19 said low caste tamils converted to Sinhalase.
So do these so called 'high caste' tamils still practice Incest by marrying their cousin brothers? |
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This may be an opportunity to say some-thing about the practice of ordaining young boys into the budhist order. Can any-one comment whether this practice was followed during times of the Sinhala Kings - prior to the arrival of the Portugese ?
Budhist priests, and lay-people alike came under severe persecution from the Portugese authorities, when they were in power. Practice of ordaining young boys may have been adopted during this period, as a measure to keep the religion alive. .
Also, does the scriptures tell us how old the young prince Rahula was, at the time of his ordination ?
(I would strongly recommend ordaining age for samanera monks should not be lowered below this age).
Edited By - SenaM - 16 Oct 2006 10:51:54 GMT |
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