... Gnanasara Thera proclaimed that " this is a country of Sinhalese and Buddhists . This is not Saudi Arabia , or United Arab Emirates , or Pakistan or Afghanistan . This is a country built by our ancestors ' blood , tears , and sacrifices ...
Historical, Political, Social, and Religious Considerations Leonard Pinto. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, addressing a crowd of 16,000 people, categorically stated, “this is a government created by Sinhala-Buddhists, and it must remain ...
... Gnanasara Thero . The Buddhist monk held similar views on the need to protect Sinhalese Buddhism . We are a very small country . Only Sri Lankans speak this language . We are the only nation who protected the special Theravada Buddhism ...
... Thera (see 2005) to preserve the heritage of ancient Buddhist sites and has become a thorny issue between Muslims ... Gnanasara Thero has, from his time before Bodu Bala Sena, a reputation of forcing the closure of numerous ...
... Gnanasara . Available at : www.lankanewsweb.net/66-special-news/74949- Burial - is - a - part - of - the - Muslim - culture -- It - is - their - religious - right --- Gnanasara- Thera ? fbclid = IwAR3gPe2IKzVJjz_FyHiljmJ3uXFv3yyXJygo ...
... Gnanasara Thero, is a former member of the JHU, as is the BBS's founder (who has since with- drawn from the movement) Kirima Wimalajothi Thero.28 Many of BBS's techniques and much of its discourse also seems to echo the JHU— even though ...
... Gnanasara Thero, general secretary of the BBS. 'Muslims have their own banking system and try to impose their ritualistic food products like halal butchers,' Gnanasara Thero said. The former government launched a special police unit in ...