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[Julia Dodoo]

TheSinhala-Buddhist spin that Rāvanā, like many other cultural icons and symbols, has acquired in the post-war context, however, embodies a fundamental contradiction. The association of Rāvanā with Sinhala Buddhism is problematic for the simple reason that Rāvanā predates both Buddhism and the Sinhala ethnicity as we know them today. Prince Vijaya who arrived in what is today known as Sri Lanka with a group of companions in the sixth century BC is widely seen as the founder of the Sinhala ethnic identity. The Mahāvamsa, which is the main historical chronicle of Sri Lanka, associates Vijaya with the Sinhala ethnic identity in such a way that he and his companions become the first generation of the Sinhala ethnic community.[5] Although this particular understanding of the origin of the Sinhala ethnic identity has been challenged and attempts have been made to place this point of origin centuries, if not millennia, back in time,[6] in a context where the authority of the Mahāvamsa largely remains unchallenged, especially in the eyes of the mainstream elements of the Sinhala community, the argument that Vijaya was the founder of the Sinhala identity continues to remain valid. At the same time, Buddhism, as we know it today, begins with the Gautama Buddha who is believed to have lived in the sixth century BC. Although, according to Theravada Buddhism, there have been twenty-seven Buddhas with their own traditions of Buddhism prior to the Gautama Buddha, the present tradition(s) of Buddhism, especially that found in Sri Lanka, is attributed solely to the Gautama Buddha. Accordingly, the furthest that the origins of the Sinhala ethnic identity and Buddhism, as we understand them, could be traced to is the sixth century BC, which is millennia away from the time of Rāvanā. In a context where the mainstream understandings regarding the two largely remain unchallenged, or at least, a discourse on the problematic nature of those understandings is absent, the proclaimed association between Rāvanā and Sinhala Buddhism is fundamentally contradictory.

Accordingly, it is evident that the current conceptualizations of Rāvanā within the Sinhala Buddhist nationalist discourse are ridden with multiple contradictions. Any serious attempt at building a connection between Rāvanā and Sinhala Buddhism, in my view, invites a radical reevaluation of the established understandings regarding both Buddhism and the Sinhala ethnicity.

This is nothing new when people or the rulers when they are powerful they change the history according their will ! Ravanan is a Hindu Tamil devote of lord Siva !! Sinhala bhudist history start with the landing of vijajan !!

Looks like Dipawansa and Mahawansa lost out on Ravana Imaginations, Along with the other Imaginations. when these two Chronicles were written for Lanka, the Land of Native Veddah Aethho. Did Buddha Visit Lanka 3 Times, and fly to the top of the Mountain to deposit his Giant Foot Print?

Thank you CT editors for publishing this article by Nandaka Maduranga Kalugampitiya .

The timing is good. It is pre-election period.

Hope many Sri Lankan readers and particularly the Sin hales Buddhist readers will read this, think rationally and post their comments.

Of course I would urge PhD holders like Dayan, Rajiva, Nalin De Silva , Gomyn to respond this article.

It will be a shame on them if they chicken out.

Simpleton like HLDM & others are also welcome to respond.

All the island populations, except some subgroups of the Vedda, form close genetic affiliations among themselves and with majority of the groups from the mainland suggesting the origin of the majority of the island population on the Indian mainland.

No definite association of the Sinhalese with any specific ethnic or linguistic groups of India was, however, detected in this study; thus, their exact origin on the mainland remains yet to be confirmed.

The post feudal world of homelands are mostly based on ethnicity and language. So within the Indian sub-continent you have an homeland for Tamils called Tamil Nadu and an homeland for Sinhalese called Sinhale or Sri Lanka.

Through a comparison with the mtDNA HVS-1 and Part HVS-2 of Indian database, both the Tamils and Sinhalese clusters were affiliated with Indian subcontinent populations than Veddah people who are believed to be the native population of Sri Lanka.

Hey This paper is just one out pf many.No person with good scientific background would make conclusion based on one paper. Sinhalese are a mix/ , bengali origin or Tamil origin are occlusion of most on these papers. So most of these studies contradict or inconclusive

Aryan and Dravidian are language classification NOT race. Some PESO-intellectuals may be use these words to show off but these have no values in real world anthropology. All most all indian people are caucasians with australoid admix.

The fact remains that the Sinhala and Tamil are Para-Sinhala and Para-Tamil, based on scientific evidence. If the Sinhala and Tamil remained in South India, there was no need to call them Para, as they would be in their native land.

I am no expert. It maters not the least. But, I have heard it said that Karaves are Kauravas in the Mahabaratha story or so they say. The Salagamas are cinnamon peelers brought from Kerala. Then during their were Tamils brought as mercenaries to fight wars. There is no single Sinhalese race, if race is ever relevant. An identity was created later, perhaps. I must say this is all hearsay.

Sinhalese are a mixed race. They have been created by immigrants mainly from south india , and the original people probably from west Asia who brought the Language of prakrit that is related to sinhalese language and irrigation technology not available in the south India. What ever in the latter era they have been mixed with south indians due to its proximity. To claim a connection to Ravana by the Sinhalese is not far fetched except that a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since the time of Ravana. The original sinhala nation post Ravana were buddhist. So the connection is quite acceptable.

What is not acceptable is the continuous attempts at ridiculing the Sinhala buddhist inheritance by the anti sinhala buddhist elements in society. Sinhala Buddhists are the most abused community in SL. The myth that sinhala buddhist discriminate the rest of the population is a myth that needs questioning. The Sinhalese are ethnically economicaly cleansed from the major cities, They are the once slaving in the ME , they are the once that get killed if they protests as in Rathupaswala so they do not have any power to discriminate. It is time sinhala buddhist bashing stops.

Comment : This verse and others clearly mention that Hanuma crossed an ocean of hundred yojanas. At the present time the shore to shore distance between southern tip of India and Northern tip of Sri Lanka is around sixty miles. Even with a measure of 2.5 miles per yojana, hundred yojanas translate to 250 miles.

8. saH pavanaatmajaH = that Hanuma; tishhThan = stood; tasmin achale = on that mountain; dadarsha = and saw; vanaani = forests; upavanaani cha = and gardens; taam laN^kaam = (and also) that city of Lanka; nagaagre = situated on the top of a mountain.

Dr. Ken Miller talks about the relationship between Homo sapiens and the other primates. He discusses a recent finding of the Human Genome Project which identifies the exact point of fusion of two primate chromosomes that resulted in human chromosome #2.

Do you mean like the Christian Inquisition, the Sinhala Buddhist Inquisition? The Sinhala Buddhist Inquisition, headed by Monk Mahanma in the 5th Century has been active for some time, including the modern time against the Tamils, and even against the Mahayana Buddhists. ( Catholics vs. Protestants)

The Inquisition is[1] a group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy. It started in 12th-century France to combat religious sectarianism, in particular the Cathars and the Waldensians. Other groups which were investigated later include the Spiritual Franciscans, the Hussites (followers of Jan Hus) and Beguines. Beginning in the 1250s, inquisitors were generally chosen from members of the Dominican Order, to replace the earlier practice of using local clergy as judges.[2] The term Medieval Inquisition covers these courts up through the 14th century

In addition to cosmology, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Historian Frances Yates argues that Bruno was deeply influenced by Arab astrology, Neoplatonism, Renaissance Hermeticism, and legends surrounding the Egyptian god Thoth.[14] Other studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial concepts of geometry to language.[15]

This article is a nonsense, as much as people that claim they had a connection with Ravana. Ravana story is a fable, a story, written to demonstrate the good and evil that exist within humans. Those people that bring these fictitious characters to life as once tangible people, are dreamers at best or lunatics at their worst. There is not a shred of evidence to support their beliefs, no matter how strong and committed they are to these beliefs. Then comparing such fiction with something that has been and is, real and live (Sinhala Buddhists),is like comparing totally unrelated and incompatible entities. It is as bad as the sort of vision some people have that Nibbana is a nice place to go to where one could live in bliss forever. Wake up people from your fantasies!

In my assumption, Vijaya came from this region and not South India, it would be interesting to do a DNA analysis of the present day Sinhalese to establish this fact, in my opinion the Sinhala race originated by the mixing of Vijaya and his people who arrived in this island (natives of present day Bangladeshis) and the Veddhas of Lanka. I am sure the DNA analysis will prove this.

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