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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mdee" data-source="post: 6204467" data-attributes="member: 218633">Next tsunami coming to Sri Lanka - article published in May 2005Dear Friends, I think it is worth sharing an article I red in year 2005; few months after devastating tsunami hit our beautiful island. Why I felt that importance? it was a view of a foreign national.  Here is few extract of the article – author is a German national. Read this, see where do we stand and how far he was reasonable. Are we? The next tsunami coming to Sri Lanka will be a religious one by Christian Eckert, The Lanka Academic, May 22, 2005...I have been coming to Sri Lanka regularly for the past 25 years. My respect for the culture of this nation is great, as I have always felt greatly welcomed by its friendly people. I found it easy to move around with Sri Lankans of different ethnic groups and beliefs, as I in return easily accepted the "Sri Lankan way of doing things".  Through the years I visited, it was always my observation that although there were different religious groups, they all lived in harmony.  But this time it was totally different story. I felt sorry, angry and helpless when I got to know about this. What more has this country got to go through? ... On the other hand it is high time the leading Buddhist monasteries and organizations leave aside their often narrow minded differences and Ego trips to join forces in the one unifying task: to protect Buddhism. Not with aggressive or violent acts but in deeds in harmony.  Showing why Buddhist have no reason at all to desert their belief. It is also high time the Buddhist monks stepped out of their comfortable temple homes and visit the poor villagers in their dwellings and not wait until they come to the temple. It is high time that the often-rich Buddhist monasteries spend their wealth to uplift the living standards of the very poor. In order to succeed, the rich Buddhists must quickly close this poverty vacuum of the poor Buddhists, which has become the play- and breeding ground of fundamental Christian groups; and as we must remember, they’re only visiting Sri Lanka.  If not, if they stay and keep on doing what they’re doing, I predict that in a few years the Buddhism will only exist in form of a weak minority in Sri Lanka. The same applies to the Hindus of Sri Lanka. And sooner or later, the Muslims. An exaggeration? Well, now Christian South Korea used to be a Buddhist country, too - only three generations ago... ...Since I’m back, I keep asking myself: isn’t Sri Lanka strong enough anymore, to get rid of these so-called aid groups who have a different agenda on the back of their minds?  Sri Lanka is a nation with a written history of 2500 years. Its rich culture is built on the Buddhist philosophy. This Buddhist culture is the backbone of Sri Lanka. Every Sri Lankan living in Sri Lanka should realize, that letting someone foreign destroy its native Buddhism means destruction to Sri Lanka itself.  Link for full article: <a href="http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,1234,0,0,1,0" target="_blank">http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,1234,0,0,1,0</a></blockquote>

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