Good Lord! Looks like those guys are trying to become like the Vatican.

Odd, isn't it, to say that "some books published recently had distorted the life of the Buddha, his doctrine and the life and times of Buddha and Buddhism"? 'Recently'? Aww... come on... Orthodox Buddhisms (Theravada included) have been quite generous with distortions for a long, long time.

I fully agree with Ralf's comment that 'the majority of the order are definitely "priests" performing rites and rituals - not even "monks" in the sense of leading a contemplative life'. In fact, I notice that Srilankans do actually generally refer to them as "priests". It seems to have become the normal English translation for "bhikkhus" there.

Oh... just another manifestation of worldly weirdness. :-)

kb

Gunnar Gällmo wrote thus at 04:36 AM 25-10-09:

>The Sri Lankan Mahanayakatheras' memorandum to the President of the country to set up a board to approve of Buddhist books has been commented at
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