Removing The Sheen From Buddhism

[Husky]

1. This bit is still related to previous posts:



The twist -



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattini

[color="#0000FF"]According to Sinhala mythology, the Bodhisatva Pattini was incarnated as Kannagi in order to rid the Pandya kingdom of its evil three-eyed king.[/color] She was said to have been born of a mango fruit, which was cut down by the god Sakra with an arrow.

(Shakra doesn't (always) appear to refer to the same in Buddhism.)





Also from the same page:

Madhu - From the time King Gaja Bahu I (114-136 CE) allegedly introduced the Pattini worship to Sri Lanka ,Pattini temple was there in Madhu Church premises (Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu) for 1850 years.Hindus called it the Amman Temple. The nearby reservoir is still called Kovil Kulam (Reservoir of the Temple).According to the "Manual of the North Central Province", by R. W. Levers, 1889, ,present Madhu Church site had a "Pattini temple" till the 1850. The Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu was established in 1876 on the same temple premises.At present , no ruins of Pattini temple can not be found there.

The catholic church loves to build "mary mother of non-existent jeebus" churches on the sacred sites belonging to heathen Goddesses and even .... female 'fairies'. There were pages on the Catharans giving some exposition on the church's modus operandi in Europe: sites of female deities were regularly taken over for mary horror centres (churches), in order to steal the power and frequent apparitions of the Goddesses at such sites for christianism.