About the blue bit:
[quote name='Husky' date='10 November 2013 - 06:49 PM' timestamp='1384089093' post='116892']
Many famous Tamizh Hindu villages and regions in SL were taken over for Buddhism in the recent past. But in those places harbouring a famous Kovil, the Buddhist Sangha usually spends some years starting a "movement" to send Buddhist laity to invade the space en-masse to supposedly "worship" at the Hindu temple. Large masses start arriving suddenly. Hindus think these new-comer Buddhist masses are like the rarer occasional lay Buddhist that popped up to genuinely pay their respects to the Hindu Gods. [...] Then, with the Buddhist masses inundating Hindu temples and setting up shop in the locality, the Tamizh Hindu region is Bauddhified, the Bauddha Sangha officially invades, takes over the Hindu temple by force or edges out the Hindu priesthood at the temple and then Bauddhifies the rituals. Then the Bauddha Sangha invents and circulates back-projected myths about how the Hindu Temple and presiding Hindu Gods are "equally" Buddhist. [...] [color="#0000FF"](SL Hindus had documented this for several famous historically-Hindu areas in SL.)[/color]
The irony is that the familiar pattern in SL matches things seen Elsewhere too.
* Actually, similar things happened in E Asia to Daoist and Shinto temples and in SE Asia to Daoist temples. But then, Buddhism etc is nobody's ancestral religion.[/quote]
I can't track the page I was originally thinking of, but found something else that touches on it (it's more angry though). The modus operandi is apparently more involved, but some of the other examples provided sound even more like cases seen in E Asia.
lankanewspapers.com/news/2009/7/46210_space.html
"The state sponsored destruction and desecration of Hindu Temples is continuing in the North East."
(Don't know how dubious/one-sided the site is - "LTTE Ra Ra" sites tend to call themselves "Lanka" not "Sri Lanka", since christianism is allergic to the very Hindu "Sri" prefix - but at least some of the data in the article is verifiable and substantiated in a more reliable source that I had seen earlier.)
The main article as well as the quoted text in the first comment to it are all that's relevant. The latter is a Temple Restoration plea which speaks of "[The Thiruketheeswaram Hindu temple severely damaged by the SL state/army] is revered by the Buddhists too & referred to in the Buddhists chronicles" and "Hindus & Buddhists are members of the same family of Religions."
The rest of the comments at the link descends into the usual "You Sinhala"/"You Tamizh" and "You Buddhist/You Hindu" type retorts, which won't end any time soon.
Note it's from 2009, an era when the christo LTTE was still around and christoconditioned SL Tamizhs - ready to believe christianism was their dear trusted friend - were of course the norm.
Maybe the SL Buddhists' need to take over/Bauddify Hindu majority areas stems from their fear of Tamizh-only demographics leading to or fueling further dreams of "Eelam". However, if that were the sole case behind the ongoing SL govt (and Buddhist monk) anti-Hindu violence, they wouldn't be violently attacking Hindu temples.
Interesting is this bit:
One of the comments by a SL Tamizh person at that link declared that India's Hindus were labouring under the misconception that eelam was a christian conspiracy.
Typical SL LTTE supporters including once-were-Hindu brainwashees tend to defend SL christianism. But there is no such thing as a Hindu who works with christianism. And eelam *is* a christian conspiracy. That is why the remnants of the LTTE have migrated (under new names) to TN India and is working for christianism and against Hindus there: to still implement "christian eelam". So no, it's not a figment of Indian Hindus imagination. Christian successes among Hindus in SL is amazing. And surprisingly also the christian success among the Buddhists in SL.
Amazing how christians are to be found everywhere in key places to whisper their brilliant "ideas" into the ears of both Buddhists and Hindus. A la Cyril Matthew above or the innumerable SL christian "Tamizhs" supposedly agitating on behalf of SL Hindus, but really just working on creating and cementing "Tamizh" as sole and overarching identity and rope all Tamizhs into their eelam plan.
[quote name='Husky' date='10 November 2013 - 06:49 PM' timestamp='1384089093' post='116892']
Many famous Tamizh Hindu villages and regions in SL were taken over for Buddhism in the recent past. But in those places harbouring a famous Kovil, the Buddhist Sangha usually spends some years starting a "movement" to send Buddhist laity to invade the space en-masse to supposedly "worship" at the Hindu temple. Large masses start arriving suddenly. Hindus think these new-comer Buddhist masses are like the rarer occasional lay Buddhist that popped up to genuinely pay their respects to the Hindu Gods. [...] Then, with the Buddhist masses inundating Hindu temples and setting up shop in the locality, the Tamizh Hindu region is Bauddhified, the Bauddha Sangha officially invades, takes over the Hindu temple by force or edges out the Hindu priesthood at the temple and then Bauddhifies the rituals. Then the Bauddha Sangha invents and circulates back-projected myths about how the Hindu Temple and presiding Hindu Gods are "equally" Buddhist. [...] [color="#0000FF"](SL Hindus had documented this for several famous historically-Hindu areas in SL.)[/color]
The irony is that the familiar pattern in SL matches things seen Elsewhere too.
* Actually, similar things happened in E Asia to Daoist and Shinto temples and in SE Asia to Daoist temples. But then, Buddhism etc is nobody's ancestral religion.[/quote]
I can't track the page I was originally thinking of, but found something else that touches on it (it's more angry though). The modus operandi is apparently more involved, but some of the other examples provided sound even more like cases seen in E Asia.
lankanewspapers.com/news/2009/7/46210_space.html
"The state sponsored destruction and desecration of Hindu Temples is continuing in the North East."
(Don't know how dubious/one-sided the site is - "LTTE Ra Ra" sites tend to call themselves "Lanka" not "Sri Lanka", since christianism is allergic to the very Hindu "Sri" prefix - but at least some of the data in the article is verifiable and substantiated in a more reliable source that I had seen earlier.)
The main article as well as the quoted text in the first comment to it are all that's relevant. The latter is a Temple Restoration plea which speaks of "[The Thiruketheeswaram Hindu temple severely damaged by the SL state/army] is revered by the Buddhists too & referred to in the Buddhists chronicles" and "Hindus & Buddhists are members of the same family of Religions."
The rest of the comments at the link descends into the usual "You Sinhala"/"You Tamizh" and "You Buddhist/You Hindu" type retorts, which won't end any time soon.
Note it's from 2009, an era when the christo LTTE was still around and christoconditioned SL Tamizhs - ready to believe christianism was their dear trusted friend - were of course the norm.
Maybe the SL Buddhists' need to take over/Bauddify Hindu majority areas stems from their fear of Tamizh-only demographics leading to or fueling further dreams of "Eelam". However, if that were the sole case behind the ongoing SL govt (and Buddhist monk) anti-Hindu violence, they wouldn't be violently attacking Hindu temples.
Interesting is this bit:
Quote:2) Sudden discoveries are made of such symbols in archaeological excavations in sights historically known to have been that of Hindu shrines, and thereafter the process of converting the areas into Sinhala Buddhist areas begins as aforesaid. [color="#FF0000"]Cyril Mathew[/color], a former minister and a henchman of President Jeyawardena, and rabid chauvinist was the chief architect of this scheme. He and his gang discovered over 100 ancient Buddhist shrines in the Eastern Province.
One of the comments by a SL Tamizh person at that link declared that India's Hindus were labouring under the misconception that eelam was a christian conspiracy.
Typical SL LTTE supporters including once-were-Hindu brainwashees tend to defend SL christianism. But there is no such thing as a Hindu who works with christianism. And eelam *is* a christian conspiracy. That is why the remnants of the LTTE have migrated (under new names) to TN India and is working for christianism and against Hindus there: to still implement "christian eelam". So no, it's not a figment of Indian Hindus imagination. Christian successes among Hindus in SL is amazing. And surprisingly also the christian success among the Buddhists in SL.
Amazing how christians are to be found everywhere in key places to whisper their brilliant "ideas" into the ears of both Buddhists and Hindus. A la Cyril Matthew above or the innumerable SL christian "Tamizhs" supposedly agitating on behalf of SL Hindus, but really just working on creating and cementing "Tamizh" as sole and overarching identity and rope all Tamizhs into their eelam plan.
Death to traitors.