Comments on: The Role of Writers and Artists during Turbulent Political Times https://groundviews.org/2011/08/04/the-role-of-writers-and-artists-during-turbulent-political-times/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-role-of-writers-and-artists-during-turbulent-political-times Journalism for Citizens Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: xy https://groundviews.org/2011/08/04/the-role-of-writers-and-artists-during-turbulent-political-times/#comment-35220 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:04:17 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=7227#comment-35220 Beautiful reflection on writers and artists and politics.

]]> By: Vino Gamage https://groundviews.org/2011/08/04/the-role-of-writers-and-artists-during-turbulent-political-times/#comment-35168 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:19:44 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=7227#comment-35168 Thank you, Lionel.

I would like to start here:
I appeal to Sri Lankan Buddhists to make 16/17/18 the compulsory minimum age to become monks:

”A novice monk(an infant) seeking alms near the Slave Island police station on Wednesday” – http://www.island.lk/ – accessed 04.08.2011.

http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ROSA/article/view/3519/2212

”Chandra R. de Silva implies that Buddhist monastic opposition to a non-unitary state has contributed to the conflict. He appreciates the reasons for this, but pleads for a system of monastic education that would expose monks to other religions and cultures. ….
I have no hesitation in recommending this volume as a serious contribution to the understanding of one of the most complex and intractable conflicts in the world’’, Dr Elizabeth Harris(Liverpool Hope University), Review(2007) of Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka(2006)

”expose monks to other religions and cultures” is, as far as I am concerned, is completion of a minimum of decent secondary education.

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