I would like to gather & show some important historical events, historical people & how much of the Sri Lankan history has been altered up to today, the year 2009. My intentions in writing this article is to collect information in the sake of Sinhala Buddhists all round the world to be proud of their glorious history & hopefully that we do much more to find, research, restore & save our history for the future generations to come. (Sri Lankan history is a very broad subject, but hear I have taken a much smaller portion from it.)
Our ''human history is dating from as early as 18,000 BC''[1] & the Buddhist history as early as lord Buddhas first visit to Sri Lanka[2]. If we talk about the first visit of Lord Buddha to Sri Lanka & the expectations of Lord Buddha, was that to establish Buddhism in the island. Who was on the island when this historical event happened ? It was a group of people who called them selves as ''Yakka''[3]. But they were not civilized & after the lord Buddhas visit, these people became civilized & Buddhists. So if there was civilised Buddhist Yakka people in Sri Lanka after this event, how can our civilization begins from ''Vijaya''[4] a banished prince from India.
What is the purpose of saying that, after Vijaya our civilization began ? Is this the truth about our civilization & our roots of origin ? Sinhala people have their origins from the ''Lanka king Ravana''[3]. From what I have heard, the idea to say that ''after Vijaya our civilization began'' was to combine the Sinhala peoples roots to Vijaya, whom had a close family roots to Lord Buddha. Personally I do not see any problem, if something is true. But if we are forced to believe something is true but it is Not, then I can not except that.
Later on we became under colonialists three times in the past. More peaces of our true history was forgotten & some times we were forced to forget ! Things like our own ancient marshal arts ''Angam Pora'' & many other cultural & historical things & some things were lost forever, only myths are left today.
I think it is now the time to dig deep & restore our true identity ones & for all in this world. It's now or newer. Further more ''it is time for us to stop believing things as it have been don for long time, but start finding the truth''(Soma thero). In addition pleas read & listen to the information from the articles & videos which are shown below. Both articles & videos contain much in-depth information about this topic & much more.
Our ''human history is dating from as early as 18,000 BC''[1] & the Buddhist history as early as lord Buddhas first visit to Sri Lanka[2]. If we talk about the first visit of Lord Buddha to Sri Lanka & the expectations of Lord Buddha, was that to establish Buddhism in the island. Who was on the island when this historical event happened ? It was a group of people who called them selves as ''Yakka''[3]. But they were not civilized & after the lord Buddhas visit, these people became civilized & Buddhists. So if there was civilised Buddhist Yakka people in Sri Lanka after this event, how can our civilization begins from ''Vijaya''[4] a banished prince from India.
What is the purpose of saying that, after Vijaya our civilization began ? Is this the truth about our civilization & our roots of origin ? Sinhala people have their origins from the ''Lanka king Ravana''[3]. From what I have heard, the idea to say that ''after Vijaya our civilization began'' was to combine the Sinhala peoples roots to Vijaya, whom had a close family roots to Lord Buddha. Personally I do not see any problem, if something is true. But if we are forced to believe something is true but it is Not, then I can not except that.
Later on we became under colonialists three times in the past. More peaces of our true history was forgotten & some times we were forced to forget ! Things like our own ancient marshal arts ''Angam Pora'' & many other cultural & historical things & some things were lost forever, only myths are left today.
I think it is now the time to dig deep & restore our true identity ones & for all in this world. It's now or newer. Further more ''it is time for us to stop believing things as it have been don for long time, but start finding the truth''(Soma thero). In addition pleas read & listen to the information from the articles & videos which are shown below. Both articles & videos contain much in-depth information about this topic & much more.
* Soma theros video is including one of the best ''Bana'' that I have listen for a long time.
A special thanks to Wikipedia.org, ''sinhalabuddhism'' & ''LankaRavana'' YouTube channels for their work.
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A special thanks to Wikipedia.org, ''sinhalabuddhism'' & ''LankaRavana'' YouTube channels for their work.
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[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X3aE_WeFHQ&feature=related
(from 6.10min in this video by Soma thero from
''sinhalabuddhism'' in YouTube)
(from''LankaRavana'' in YouTube)
(from 5.27min in this video by Soma thero from
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That is a very important and valuable article. You have done a very valuable research before do this. This is short and sweet, and this is the first time that i found the youtube channel LankaRavana, that is very valuable to learn the history of sri lanka.
ReplyDeleteI am a bit sceptical about 18,000 BC figure. There are archaeological evidence to prove Sri Lankan history goes beyond.
ReplyDelete700,000 BC: Sri Lanka inhabited by humans
500,000 BC: Humans started to use fire
123,000 BC: Oldest Human found from Pathirajawela
80,000 BC: 2nd Oldest Human found from Bundala
The list goes on..
I agree 100% with you bro ''fair7deal'' !!!
ReplyDeleteYou'r info are very important corrections to the article, Thanks!!