Topic started by Eezham Tamil (@ qc-mon-pel-ap3-02-39.look.ca) on Sat May 25 07:21:37 .
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This is just an example from Canadian history- The Tamils from Tamilnadu must know.

Year 1759, the French people of New France ( Now Canadian province of Quebec) were fighting for their survival as a people/ Nation and to safe guard their French language and culture from the English dominance in North America. The French people of Canada beleived their bretheren from France will never abandon them and they will get help from them to fight the English.

But the help never arrived from france. In the plains of Abraham in Sep 13/1759 the French canadians lost their land, New france to the English. Even today, morethan 240 years after, the French canadians still have resentment against their French Bretheren of France.

History not going to judge the Tamils from Tamilnadu kindly. I think, now suffering Eelam Tamils will remember the Tamils of mainland with Sad and bitterness in the future.

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• From: Karuvayan (@ pcl-b121.lib.utexas.edu) on: Mon Jan 27 18:48:32
  
  Nisala, yes, even I agree that Dr. Subramaniam Swamy is a nut case. Apart from the fact that he is a visiting professor at Harvard University where he teaches economics, he is known as a looney person here in India.
  
  For one coming from the Hindutva brigade, I can tell you that none of the saffron brigadiers like Subramanian Swamy. We believe he is more than a nutcase.
  
  
• From: Senaka (@ w3cache.cyf-kr.edu.pl) on: Mon Jan 27 22:59:44
  
  
  "But, the kind of buddhism that is prevalent in Sri Lanka is not what the buddha taught."
  
  Theravada (pronounced -- more or less -- "terraVAHduh"), the "Doctrine of the Elders," is the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration from the texts of the Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, which scholars generally accept as containing the earliest surviving record of the Buddha's teachings.
  
  In the third century BCE Sri Lankan monks began compiling a series of detailed commentaries to the Tipitaka that were finally collated and translated into Pali beginning in the fifth century CE. The Tipitaka plus the post-canonical Pali texts (commentaries, chronicles, etc.) together constitute the complete body of classical Theravada texts.
  
  Pali was originally a spoken language with no alphabet of its own. It wasn't until about 100 BCE that the Tipitaka was first fixed in writing, by Sri Lankan scribe-monks writing the Pali phonetically in their own Sinhala alphabet. Since then the Tipitaka has been transliterated into many different scripts (Devanagari, Thai, Burmese, Roman, Cyrillic, to name a few).
  
  http://www.accesstoinsight.org/theravada.html
  
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  "The Tipitaka (Pali Canon) assumed its final form at the Third Buddhist Council (ca. 250 BCE) and was first committed to writing sometime in the 1st c. BCE. Shortly thereafter Buddhist scholar-monks in Sri Lanka and southern India began to amass a body of secondary literature: commentaries on the Tipitaka itself, historical chronicles, textbooks, Pali grammars, articles by learned scholars of the past, and so on. Most of these texts were written in Sinhala, the language of Sri Lanka, but because Pali -- not Sinhala -- was the lingua franca of Theravada, few Buddhist scholars outside Sri Lanka could study them. It wasn't until the 5th c. CE, when the Indian monk Buddhaghosa began the laborious task of collating the ancient Sinhala commentaries and translating them into Pali, that these books first became accessible to non-Sinhala speakers around the Buddhist world. These commentaries (Atthakatha) offer meticulously detailed explanations and analyses -- phrase-by-phrase and word-by-word -- of the corresponding passages in the Tipitaka."
  
  http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/postcanon.html
  
  
• From: Karuvayan (@ cs6668103-167.austin.rr.com) on: Mon Jan 27 23:04:13
  
  //edu.pl//
  
  Say, Senakar just for the heck of it, are you posting from Palestine?
  
  
• From: Karuvayan (@ cs6668103-167.austin.rr.com) on: Tue Jan 28 04:29:36
  
  OK, just checked. Howz Poland? How did you end up there?
  
  

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