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This is not Buddhism as I know it, but Sinhalese chauvinism and communalism that is promoted by the nationalistic Rajapakse regime. First the Tamils were marginalised after the civil war and now they are going after the rest of the minorities in this questionable democracy.
Nagas are semi-divine, semi-human spirits in Indian and Southeast Asian mythology. Notes from a traveler: "He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference was partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. " — Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)