The Holy Triple Gem for ALL BUDDHISTS are the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.
If you do not respect one, you do not respect the other two also.
Receiving a basic degree or even a PhD is no reason to shun those who teach the Dhamma.
Colombo University has for decades been the hunting ground for INGO and Marxist anti-Buddhist mercenaries. The international agencies and the Western Embassies have a permanent gravy distribution station in Colombo campus. Paragoda Hamuduruwo sings hosannas on Ven. Walpola Rahula Hamuduruwo as Vice Chancellor of Vidyalankara University. Actually Ven Rahula was the VC of Vidyodaya University. He left Vidyodaya in 1969 because of his disaffection with the political regime. He was the first Bhikkhu to become a Professor of a Western University as well as a revered scholar at Sorbonne University.
It is said that his book Bhikshuvakage Urumaya (Heritage of the Bhikkhu) was a strong voice in the Buddhist Nationalist movement that led to the 1956 electoral victory of the SLFP under the banner of the Sangha, Weda, Guru, Govi, Kamkaru flag.
Every year thousands of Sri Lankan applicants wait in the new students’ registration queue at British Universities. Of those, hundreds apply to Manchester University willing to pay between £20,000 (Rs. 5,364,631.87) to £47000 (Rs. 12,606,884.90) per annum for academic fees alone! They know the value of a British University degree. Their free educated compatriots in Sri Lanka revel in inhuman ragging of juniors while being unquestioning sycophants to the teachers in the hope of securing at least a 2nd Upper degree. Hence the calamities one observes within our campuses.
Shame on those arrogant youth who selectively shunned a Bhikkhu because of his yellow robes than any other lame excuse!
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