(Lanka-e-News- 01.March.2016, 11.30PM) A directive has been issued from the highest echelons of the government to the General treasury to gift a vehicle worth Rs. 10 million to Ven. Mahanayake Galagama Athdassi Thera of the Siyam Nikaye of the Asgiriya chapter , based on reports.
Doubts have proliferated whether the mahanayake is going to receive this vehicle as a bribe.Though the Malwatte mahanayake agreed for the opening the road in front of the Dalada Maligawa which remains closed now , the mahanayake of the Asgiriya chapter was bitterly opposed to this .
Spending Rs. 10 million of public funds to secure the willingness of mahanayake to open a road for the benefit of the people is a clear manifestation to what lowliest level a mahanayake who ought to be the sentinel of Buddhism and a custodian of its pristine tenets has descended.
Meanwhile officers of the treasury revealed , without an expenditure allocation from the treasury ,monies cannot be spent on a motor vehicle to be given to mahanayake is not possible. If necessary , it might be possible to grant a vehicle to the Ven. mahanayake duly under the Ministry of Buddhist affairs , the officers pointed out.
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Whom are we to get advise ?
-- by Sriyani mangalika on 2016-03-02
It seems that every government that comes into power wants to bribe the buddhist leaders. Who's money is this . can someone tell the people what they use for their travelling and how many and how old these vehicles are. Please spend these monies for the rural schools who even do not have teachers.
please prove that you are for the masses and not for those who try to praise the government for their greed
-- by roger on 2016-03-03
According to the hallowed teachings of our Lord Buddha, genuine monks are supposed to walk barefoot seeking alms - not to travel in chauffeur-driven air conditioned super luxury vehicles at the cost to the tax payers. Rs 10 million will suffice to fatten the waistlines of hindrends of alms-seeking monks for several years, certainly longer than some politicians of the yaha paalanaya may survive their erstwiley careers.
-- by Aduljadej Thera on 2016-03-03