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The Way of Buddhist Monk's Image has used by the Political Movements of Sri Lanka after the Independence

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dc.contributor.author Wijayasinghe, A.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T09:08:14Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T09:08:14Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Wijayasinghe, A. 2016. The Way of Buddhist Monk's Image has used by the Political Movements of Sri Lanka after the Independence. In proceedings of the 17th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2016, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 214. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/16147
dc.description.abstract The relationship between the state of Sri Lanka and the Buddhism was established on the day when the Arahath Mahinda Thero introduced Buddhism to Sri Lankan society. After that Buddhist monk became a prominent figure in Sri Lankan society. This situation prevailed from the Anuradhapura kingdom to Kandyan kingdom. When Sri Lanka became a colony of British, Buddhist monk had given his guidance for the rebels conducted by local people. The Vidyalankara Decleration (Vidyalankara Prakashaya) which was declared in 1946 gave a disciplinary permission for Buddhist monks which encouraged them to engage in political activities without any fear. That situation paved the way to Buddhist monk for emerge as a prominent figure in 2004 parliamentary election as election candidates and won nine seats in parliament. This study is mainly focused on the way of Buddhist monk's image has used by the political movements of Sri Lanka during the time frame of 1947 to 2015. The collection of data for this study was mainly done through the methods of textual analysis and interviews. The data which was collected according to the above methods clearly suggest that the Buddhist monk had captured a prominent place in Sri Lankan history of politics. As well as the image of Buddhist monk had used by the various types of political movements in various aspects in order to grab the public opinion towards their victory. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Buddhist Monk en_US
dc.subject Image en_US
dc.subject Political Movements en_US
dc.subject Independence en_US
dc.title The Way of Buddhist Monk's Image has used by the Political Movements of Sri Lanka after the Independence en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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