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WBahu
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 30 Sep 2008 03:42:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Child-abuser monk commits suicide
Monks play a highly influential role in Sri Lankan life
A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk has died from poison he drank after he was sentenced for raping a girl aged 13.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4551715.stm
Monk in sexual abuse case given bail
A person said to be a monk, who is accused of sexually abusing a young woman who was serving as an advisor to a higher educational institution, has been released on bail.
-lankadissent.lk
Sri Lanka: Monks Held In Abuse Of Orphaned Boys
Published: October 11, 2003
Two Buddhist monks and eight other men are being held in connection with the sexual abuse of 11 boys at at orphanage near Colombo, the capital, the National Child Protection Authority said.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst
YES,Buddhism the best gift to the world from Sri Lanka |
AstroLTTE
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 30 Sep 2008 03:45:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Published: October 11, 2003
Try to get a life.....or commit suicide....rather than trying to prove....:-) |
wayamba
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 30 Sep 2008 03:45:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Monk I vs Monk II.... truely Sri Lankan!
Some Tamils monks from born in TN wrote the Mahavamsa.(Buddha Rakkitha)
Eelamaya,
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EEELamaya
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30 Sep 2008 03:49:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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Was he a traitor???
In fact that is true. Also, many Tamils were Buddhists centuries ago. That is why there are some Buddhist artifacts in Tamil Eelam. But, now, the monks try to connect such artifacts in Tamil areas to past Sinhala settlements in their attempt to claim Tamil Eelam!
Edited By - EEELamaya - 30 Sep 2008 03:53:05 GMT |
Mucha-linda
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The credit should go to Myanmar, who saved our Buddhism in Kandiyan era. If not for Myanmar, entire that whould have been the end of Buddhism in SL. There were no monk available when the new Buddhist monk arrived from Myanmar.
WAYAMBA,
Buddhism was first introduced to Myanmar after the 3rd Buddhist Council held at Pataliputhra under the patronage of King Asoka. However, that did not last long and soon disappeared due to various reasons. As a result, Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka again introduced Theravada Buddhism to Myanmar which remained in tact to this date.
Your interpretation of events that took place during Kandyan era is also wrong (if not misleading). Buddhism did not disappear from Sri Lanka during the reigns of Kandyan Kings. What happened was we lost the higher ordination (upasampada) of Buddhist Monks from Sri Lanka. What was re-established during the times of Kings Sri Vijaya Rajasinghe and Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe of Kandy is this higher ordination.
It is also worth noting that Dutch did not volunteer to carry delegation of Buddhist monks in their vessels. Dutch were invited by King Rajasinghe the second to chase Portuguese out and the King handed over the rule of all low lying coastal areas (Dutch Maritime Province) to them through an Agreement in 1638. According to the article 8 of that Agreement, king Sri Vijaya Rajasinghe, under the advice of most Venerable Weliwitiye Sarananka Thero, struck a deal with Dutch to carry his delegation to Siam.
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Monk to be charged with alleged rape
Courtesy: The Morning Leader- December 13, 2006
A case is due to be filed by the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) against a chief incumbent of a pirivena in Matara over the alleged rape of a minor.
The priest, was accused of allegedly raping a girl under 14 and making her pregnant. The girl recently gave birth to a child, according to NCPA officials.
AstroLTTE's father maybe chief incumbent of a pirivena in Matara. |
WBahu
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A campaign by Sri Lanka's prime minister to recruit 2,000 children into Buddhist monastic orders to cope with a shortage of monks has met criticism from a scholar who says child ordination is against Buddhist doctrine.
Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropology professor at Princeton University, says the campaign targets children as young as 5 years even though Theravada Buddhism doctrine states that a boy must be at least 15 years of age to become a monk.
The Buddha himself ordained at just 5 years his only son Rahula, but this was regarded an exception rather than a rule, Obeyesekere said.
After being rebuked for the act by his own father, the Buddha specified that one must not only have parental consent to ordain a child, but that the child must be 15 years of age. If not, the youth must have the ''physical maturity'' of a 15-year-old.
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 30 Sep 2008 03:55:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Seeya
But, now, the monks try to connect such artifacts in in Tamil areas to Sinhala settlements in their attempt to claim Tamil Eelam!
yesterday THala said that the Tamils did not come from India and that it was the Sinhalese who came from what is knows as Orissa...so we have the birth right to do so.... find your own ancestral land. India is ours now!! |
wayamba
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30 Sep 2008 03:59:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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OK,Muchalinda
But Higher ordination is most important.
Other wise no new monks can be recruted.
I spoke with our temple thero, he too said Only a monk with higher ordination can recruit new monks. |
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