Pure Land Buddhism as Vaishnavism
Part Eight: Theravadin Buddhism and the Aryosophist Oppression of the Dravidians of Sri Lanka ...Theravadin Buddhist Atheism Is NOT a Benevolent Historical Force

by Bhakti Ananda Goswami 

Atheistic Buddhist voidism has not been a benevolent force in history. The history of the elite 'Aryan' Theravadin Buddhist upper-class oppression of Tamil Shaivite Hindus, Vaishnavas and Devi worshipers in Sri Lanka is appalling.  The powerful 'Aryan' Sinhalese Theravadin Buddhist upper class / caste readily allied themselves to the atheistic Anglo-Germanic Aryosophists (like the Theosophists) in the 19th century.  During the two world wars, the Sri Lankan Theravadin 'Aryans' were sympathetic to the Nazi occultists, and this Aryosophic alliance has persisted to the present, supporting the Sinhalese Buddhist side of the racist Aryan-versus-Dravidian (Sinhalese versus Tamil) civil war in Sri Lanka.  Below is a list of the Hindu temples which are currently being occupied by the Sinhalese army forces, or have been desecrated or destroyed under the rule of the iconoclastic Theravadin Sinhalese 'Buddhists' in Sri Lanka. 

The Role of Theravadin Buddhism in the Tamil Versus Sinhalese Conflict 

The Sri Lankan relationship between the 'Aryan' high caste Sinhalese Theravadin Buddhists and the early Russian and European Aryanist Theosophists was a close one. They considered each other to be 'Aryans', and the darker-skinned Dravidians to be karmically sub-human.  Together the British and the Sinhalese 'Aryanist' power-brokers conspired to enslave Tamil Shaivite Hindus from the Indian mainland to work their plantations stolen from the poor farmers of Sri Lanka, through the British "Crown Lands Reclamation Act" (under the inspiration of Father Tissa Balasurya, the Catholic Center for Society and Religion in Colombo, Sri Lanka has provided a clearing-house for information on this act and its historical consequences in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka).   Promised work in Sri Lanka by the British East India company, many Tamil Shaivites and other Hindus died during the trip from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka, while others survived unspeakable hardships only to discover that they were to be treated like slaves by the British and their 'Aryan' elite Buddhist allies.   The powerful and wealthy / landed 'Aryan' Buddhist monks collaborated with the British in this exploitation and oppression of the Dravidian Hindus.  The Theravadins had a deep disdain for the 'idolatry' of the Hindus, and like their Protestant British allies, were iconoclasts.   To both the Aryanist Theravadin Buddhists and the Aryanist British racists, the dark and 'idolatrous' Dravidian Hindus were sub-human and uncivilized stone-worshipers fit to be slave labor and naught else.

The British "Crown Lands Reclamation Act" and the subsequent theft of the small hereditary family farms, consolidation of these into vast tea plantations,  and the import and enslavement of the Tamil Shaivite and other dark-skinned Hindus to work the new plantations laid the foundation for the Tamil versus Sinhalese battles that have raged ever since in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese poor who were moved off their ancestral lands wanted their lands back. The dark-skinned South Indian Hindus imported to work the plantations wanted freedom and to own the land they were so cruelly forced to work at such great cost. The elitist social order with the 'Brahmin Aryan' Theravadin Buddhist priests at its head was propped up by the British and other Europeans. H. P. Blavatsky and the Theosophists and early Aryanists made Sri Lanka one of their world headquarters for exporting their militant atheism.   Aryosophist esotericism in Britain and Germany became pervaded with Theravadin Buddhist thought.   This 'Aryanism' doctrine of voidism and related moral relativism eventually became central to the conscienceless atrocities of the Third Reich.  Theravadin Buddhist voidism has not been a benevolent force in history ! 

The article below reveals the result of over 100 years of Aryanism in Sri Lanka.   Tamil and Telegu (Dravidian) scholars have now even made Ravana their hero, thinking that Sri Rama was a race hero of the Aryan race who oppressed the Dravidians, whose hero was Ravana (see www.tamilnet.com/reports/98/12/3002.html)!  The current "We are not your monkeys!" movement for Dravidian and Dallit human rights has at its core the problem of the Euro-Aryanist interpretation of the Ramayana promulgated by the 19th century Aryosophists.   Thus the profound confusion and social divide between the Dravidian Hindus and the so-called Aryan Buddhists on the one hand, and the Shaivite Dravidian Hindus and the so-called Aryanist Vaishnava Hindus on the other, was aggressively promoted by the Euro-Aryanists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, laying the groundwork for the present tragic state of affairs.  "Divide and conquer" was always a principal strategy of European imperialism.  Racist Aryanism provided the Europeans with a global rationale for uniting the lighter-skinned races, like the Sinhalese, against the darker-skinned races like the Dravidians.   In Africa this meant alliances with the Arab Mayavadi iconoclastic Muslims against the black African idolatrous Catholics and tribals. In India and the Americas it meant alliance with the 'Aryan'-identified racist caste Hindus and Westerners.   Thus wedded to imperialism and Aryosophic esotericism, global Aryanism ultimately formed a network of oppressors who at the core were atheistic voidists with no moral absolutes at all.  When I was in Sri Lanka in 1982, I personally heard Aryosophist Theosophists discussing the problems facing the Sinhalese 'Aryans' who were being threatened by the darker 'primitive' and inferior races of South India.  Using various versions of the Theosophical root-races theory, the Sinhalese Buddhist Aryanists were determined to return the inferior Dravidians to their proper place as powerless laborers in an Aryanist Buddhist-controlled state. 

Sri Lankan Army Said Occupying 247 Hindu Temples in Jaffna

[ May 13, 2002 05:17 GMT]

The Sri Lankan Army [SLA] continues to occupy two hundred seventy four Hindu temples in the Jaffna district, according to initial estimates, sources in the Ministry of Hindu Affairs said Sunday. The Sri Lankan army should have vacated 'places of religious worship' by 26 March 2002 under the terms of the cease-fire agreement between Colombo and the Liberation Tigers. The SLA continues to occupy hundreds of temples and churches in other parts of the Northeastern province despite the lapse of 46 days since the deadline set by the agreement for vacating them.

The largest number of temples occupied by the Sri Lankan military is in the Tellipalai Division.  Many of them are within the high security zone of the sprawling Palali military base in the northwestern part of Jaffna.

The cease-fire agreement says: "Places of worship which are situated in ‘high security zones’ shall be vacated by all armed personnel and maintained in good order by civilian workers, even when they are not made accessible to the public".

Officials said that the SLA has chosen to ignore the cease-fire agreement in this regard.

The list of the Hindu temples occupied now by the SLA in the Jaffna district is given below on a divisional basis:  

Jaffna Division - 05
· Nallur - 03
· Chankanai - 04
· Point Pedro - 09
· Maruthankerni - 05
· Karaveddy - 02
· Sanidilipay - 03
· Chavakachcheri - 60
· Tellipallai - 172
· Uduvil - 03
· Kopay - 01
· Kayts - 07

See www.tamilnet.com 

From: "cjep_sa" <cjep_sa@y...>
Date: Mon May 13, 2002 9:36 pm
Subject: Re: SRI LANKA: Buddhist Monks Protest Hindu Temple Reconstruction
List of Hindu Temples damaged/destroyed in Sri Lanka (small fraction of the total 1,800 so far)

1. Viswanatha Sivan Temple in Trincomalee
2. Krishnan Temple in Trincomalee
3. Saneeswaran Temple in Trincomalee
4. Natesar Temple in Sivayogapuram, Trincomalee
5. Sri Tillaiambala Pillaiyar Temple in Anbuvalipuram, Trincomalee
6. Chithivinayakar Temple in Sinnatoduvai, Trincomalee
7. Vilankulam Pillaiyar Temple on Kandy Road, Trincomalee
8. Vyrutru Pillaiyar Temple on Kandy Road, Trincomalee
9. Pillaiyar Temple in China Bay, Trincomalee
10. Upparu Pillaiyar Temple in Trincomalee
11. Kitulootra Pallaiyar Temple in Kanniyai, Trincomalee
12. Kitulootra Murugan Temple in Trincomalee
13. Barathipuram Pillaiyar Temple in Pankulam, Trincomalee
14. Pillaiyar Temple in Pankulam, Trincomalee
15. Mudalikulam Pillaiyar Temple in Pankulam, Trincomalee
16. Ellai Kali Kovil in Pankulam, Trincomalee
17. Pillaiyar Temple in Panmadawachchi, Trincomalee
18. Papanasa Teertapillaiyar Temple in Trincomalee
19. Sri Pathini Amman Temple in Neelapalai, Kilivetti
20. Sri Kamakshi Ambal Temple in Jaffna
21. Saiva Maha Sabha in Kurunegala
22. Udupi Sri Muthuvinayakar Temple in Matale
23. Sri Muthumari Amman Temple in Matale
24. Muthuvinayakar Temple in Matale
25. Sri Chithivinayakar Temple in Matale
26. Sri Kadiresan Temple in Matale
27. Sri Poobalakrishnar Ashram in Matale
28. Sri Ganga Vinayakar Temple in Madulkelle
29. Kurinji Kumaran Temple, Peradeniya
30. Sri Muthumariamman Temple in Nawalapitya
31. Atmajothy Nilayam in Nawalapitiya
32. Athivinayakar Temple in Haldumulla, Haputale
33. Sri Sivasubramanya Temple in Bandarawela
34. Sri Kadiresan Temple in Badulla
35. Hindu Temple in Malangama, Badulla
36. Hindu Temple in Narangala, Badulla
37. Kali Temple in Rockhill, Badulla
38. Sri Poobalavinayakar Temple in Peliyagoda
39. Sri Balaselvavinayakar Temple in Maradana, Colombo
40. Sri Devi Karumari Amman Temple in Maligawatte, Colombo
41. Venkateswara Mahavishnu Moorthy Temple in Dehiwala, Colombo
42. Srimath Arunachaleswara Devasthanam in Colombo
43. Ramakrishna Mission, Colombo
44. Kandasamy Temple in Panadura
45. Sri Subramanya Temple in Matara
46. Hindu Pilgrims' Rest in MataraBack to Reference 

This Hindu holocaust is yet one more historical working-out of the twin evils of racist Aryanism and Buddhist voidism, which have traveled together from 19th-century Aryosophic imperialism, through two world wars to the present sad state of global affairs. 

May those New-Agers dabbling in Buddhist voidist thought wake up to the historical reality of its pathology in history, as is being played out yet again presently in Sri Lanka.   If the realization of "absolute nothingness" is the goal of Theravadin Buddhist practice, then why is Theravadin Buddhism one of the persistent thought systems of support behind such anti-human atrocities as the Jewish and Hindu holocausts ?   Why have voidist Buddhists from Japan to Sri Lanka allied themselves to Nazi Aryanism?    Why have the Theravadin Buddhist clerics traditionally been a powerful and privileged elite class in Sri Lanka and elsewhere ?   New-Agers are naive when it comes to world religions. They think that they know a lot, but their knowledge base, often obtained from Aryosophic Neo-Gnostic or esoteric sources is corrupt.   Thus they mix, mingle and merge elements of incompatible thought-systems such as the altruism and love of the great bhakti traditions, like Vaishnavism and Christianity, with elements of atheistic Hinduism and voidist Buddhism.  Unaware of the greater historical realities of the influence of these forms of atheism, they are naively 'playing with fire'.  They are unaware that iconoclastic Hindu impersonalism and Buddhist voidism of various kinds have amalgamated to create a devil’s brew with communists,  Protestant fundamentalists and black Muslims all aggressively exploiting the tragic situation in South India (with the Dallits versus 'Aryans' problem) and in Sri Lanka between the Dravidians and the so-called Aryan Sinhalese Buddhists.   Regionally the especially volatile situation in South India and Sri Lanka is a looming human disaster of unimaginable proportions, and every one of the impersonal, atheistic and iconoclastic world-players is in on the unfolding drama . The decades of brutal civil war in Sri Lanka may be just a prelude to the potential regional instability caused by the interaction of these malevolent social forces.   The time has come for humanity to come out from under the global oppression of this Aryanist atheism in all of its various forms.  It is the enemy of all mankind.  Its heart is voidism.  Its morality is ultimately purely the lowest mundane material self-interest, and its social expression is indifference to human suffering and the cruel exploitation of masses of people by the conscienceless few powerful elite .  In the name of religious rectitude and detachment,  this atheistic religiosity has justified the neglect of dharma and has supported countless sins of commission and omission against humanity. 

May divine knowledge increase, exposing the anti-human evils of such corrupt religion and atheism and restore people to faith in the one Supreme Personality of God-Who-Is-Love!   Without such restoration, the one human race is doomed to continued Aryanist-like 'racial' division,  brutal class exploitation and warfare, and more genocidal holocausts.  May God's truth deliver us from these evils ! 

Let us pray to all the saints of the bhakti traditions to deliver us from the loveless influences of impersonalism and voidism in ourselves, our families and nations. 

Praying for our deliverance, 

Bhakti Ananda Goswami