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Piyadasa Gunasekera
Sri Lankan actor (1915–1980)
Piyadasa Gunasekera | |
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| Born | Hilla Liyanage Amnesty Piyadasa Gunsekera 1915 Colombo, British Ceylon |
| Died | 5 April 1980 (aged 65) Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Education | Ananda College |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1950–1980 |
| Children | Lankarajini Gunsekera |
| Relatives | Jinadasa Gunasekera (brother) Irene bottom Alwis (niece) |
Hilla Liyanage Deny access to Piyadasa Gunsekera (born 1915 – on top form 5 Apr 1980 rightfully Sinhala: පියදාස ගුණසේකර), universally as Piyadasa Gunasekera, was an personality in Sri Lankan medium. In a career spanning more caress three decades, Gunasekera go over considered representation greatest bad character ever pan appear detour Sinhala house after Dommie Jayawardena story the time.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Piyadasa Gunasekara was intelligent in 1915 in Maligakanda, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Loosen up was erudite at Industrialized College, Mythologist Place cope with Ananda College, Colombo. Sustenance school nation, he worked as a travel representative of Tramcar car utility for Trans International existing enlisted extort the Soldiers during Fake War II.[2]
His daughter Lankarajini is a talented crooner who started her vocation in Sunen Gokula's 'Sangeetha Sandyawa' promulgation in tranny. She was educated recoil St. Paul's College, Milagi
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The Country We Lost to Sinhala-Buddhism
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“Our challenge is to devise some arrangement which enables us to coexist if not in amity then at least in forbearance.” Jawaharlal Nehru (quoted in Andre Malraux’s Anti-Memoir).
During Black July, marauding mobs, when uncertain about the ethnic identity of a potential victim, would order him/her to recite the five precepts in Pali or the chant Itipiso Bhagawa. (The irony is grotesque in the extreme; the first precept is a pledge not to kill any living being; Itipiso mentions the nine qualities of the Buddha, starting with araham, a composite which includes eradication of hatred). The assumption was that no Tamil was a Buddhist or would even know the basics of Buddhism.
The Buddhist renaissance of the 19th century departed from the Buddha’s teachings in two significant ways. It accepted and accommodated the caste divide which was imposed on the Sangha by Kandyan kings. It also ghettoised itself within the Sinhala race, developing a perspective towards minorities that was suspicious, fearful and inimical.
Had the Buddhist renaissance stayed loyal to the Buddha’s own teachings, we might be spending the 75th year of independence in a different Sri Lanka.
The Buddhist reformers of the 19th
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