Namo Buddhaya!
Pinwath mithurani,
Thought to provide you an extract of "Eleven years in Ceylon; comprising sketches of the field sports and natural history of that colony, and an account of its history and antiquities (1840)" [source: http://www.archive.org/details/elevenyearsincey01forbuoft ] which provides a first hand account of the first ever exposition of the Tooth Relic happened under Birtish rule.
I have emphasized few points by making the text bold; hope you won't mind that.
Please tolerate with Metta the tone used by the authors when referring to Sri Lankans; this clearly shows the grave plight the country was under the British.
This exposition takes place in a severe drought; and it was the solution the natives suggested the British to do.
And the narration ends highlighting how torrents of rain started to fell.
After that point the book continues over other topics...
But as we know this is a point where the British realized that there's something in Buddhism; and started to give some consideration.
Given below is an extract from page 290 onwards...
Theruwan saranai!
related threads:
http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157328
http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157304
Pinwath mithurani,
Thought to provide you an extract of "Eleven years in Ceylon; comprising sketches of the field sports and natural history of that colony, and an account of its history and antiquities (1840)" [source: http://www.archive.org/details/elevenyearsincey01forbuoft ] which provides a first hand account of the first ever exposition of the Tooth Relic happened under Birtish rule.
I have emphasized few points by making the text bold; hope you won't mind that.
Please tolerate with Metta the tone used by the authors when referring to Sri Lankans; this clearly shows the grave plight the country was under the British.
This exposition takes place in a severe drought; and it was the solution the natives suggested the British to do.
And the narration ends highlighting how torrents of rain started to fell.
After that point the book continues over other topics...
But as we know this is a point where the British realized that there's something in Buddhism; and started to give some consideration.
Given below is an extract from page 290 onwards...
Theruwan saranai!
related threads:
http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157328
http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157304
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