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The Buddhist people in Lanka, Wake up!
- The sacred name of Gauthama Buddha was changed, modified and misinterpreted. Wake up!
'අපට අහිමි වූ අපේ උරුමය - 1' (The taking away of our own history from us - 1) - Preface
ශ්‍රී නාමය විකෘති කිරීම. (The distortion of the sacred name of Gauthama Buddha)
The distortion of the sacred name of Gauthama Buddha.
… in his book titled "Inscription of Ceylon",
Professor Senarath Paranavitha had made tremendous harm to the name of Gauthama
Buddha by the way of misinterpretations….
භාග්‍යවත් බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ ශ්‍රී නාමය විකෘති කොට ඝාතනය කිරීම නිසි පරික්ෂාවට භාජනය කර නිවැරදි කරන ලෙස වගකිය යුතු උතුමන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීම. (Letter sent to His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka over the harm done on the name of Buddha)
The letter sent to His
Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka, requesting to draw his attention and close observation on
the book called "Inscription of Ceylon" by Professor Senarath Paranavithana
which had intentionally made tremendous harm over the name of Gauthma Buddha.
වරද කාගේද? (Whose fault is this? - Changing the sacred name of Lord Buddha found in the inscriptions)
Whose fault is this? - Changing the sacred name of Lord
Buddha found in the inscriptions.
‘බගවත’ යන බුදුරජුන්ගේ නාමය ඉවත් කිරීම. (The removal of the name called "Bagawatha" which was used for Buddha)
The removal of the
name called "Bagawatha" which was used for Buddha.
බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේට ‘බමුණු මරුකූටයෙකු’ ලෙස උපාධියක් ලබා දීම. (Naming and insulting Buddha as "a Bamunu Marukuta")
Naming and insulting Buddha as "a Bamunu Marukuta".
බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ ප්‍රදාන තවත් ශ්‍රාවකයන් වහන්සේලාගේ නාමයන් අතහැර ලිපිය කෙටිකර වාර්තා කිරීම. (Shortening the inscription by removing the names of chief disciples of the Buddha)
Shortening the inscription by removing the names of chief
disciples of the Buddha.
ගෞතම බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ ලංකාවට වඩිනා විට ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍ය පාලකයා වූ පණිත මහරජතුමාගේ නාමය ඉවත් කර දැමීම. (The removal of the name of Great King Panitha, the ruler of Lanka when the time Gauthma Budhha visited Lanka)
The removal of the name of Great King Panitha,
the ruler of
Lanka when the time Gauthma Budhha visited Lanka.
රාවණා රජතුමාගේ නම ඉවත්කොට සෙල්ලිපියේ අර්ථය මුළුමනින්ම විකෘති කිරීම. (The removal of the name of King Ravana and giving a total misinterpretation for that)
The removal of the name of King Ravana and giving a total
misinterpretation for that.
එක් නමක් විකෘති කොට තවත් නමක් අයින් කොට ලියා තැබූ ලිපිය. (The inscription in which one name was misinterpreted and another name was totally taken off)
The inscription in which one name was misinterpreted and
another name was totally taken off.
ගෞතම බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ විසින් ලක්දිව රජු ලවා රෝපණය කරනු ලැබූ දකුණු බෝ ශාඛාව කොහේ පිහිටියේද? (What is the location of the right branch of the sacred Bo tree which was planted by the king in Lanka following the instructions of Gauthama Buddha?)
What is the location of the right branch of the sacred Bo
tree which was planted by
the king in Lanka following the instructions of
Gauthama Buddha?
බුදුරදුන්ගේ ශ්‍රී පාද ස්ථාන පිහිටි නර්මදා නදී තීරයත්,සච්චබද්ධ පර්වතයත් ලක්දිව නොවේද? (River called Narmada and the mountain called Sachchabaddha are found in Lakdiva (Sri Lanka))
Aren't the river called Narmada and the mountain called
Sachchabaddha
where the sacred foot prints of Buddha were placed are found in
Lakdiva (Sri Lanka)?
