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5. …to answer the question if there has taken place a power shift between the “big three” in the international trading system by incorporating the results from 1-4 in synoptical comparative analysis.
RELATIONS BETWEEN BUDDHISM AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SRI LANKAN POLITICAL SPHERE. THE CASE OF THE NATIONAL HERITAGE PARTY (JHU) Madlen Krüger CERES, Centrum für religionswissenschaftliche Studien; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany e-mail: madlen.krueger@rub.de This paper presents one aspect of my research project about the Jathika Hela Urumayamovement in Sri Lanka. The JHU or “National Sinhala Heritage Party” is a new political party, which is led by Buddhist monks. The entry of Buddhist monks into national elections in April 2004 represented a “radical departure” from the practices of the so- called Theravāda-Buddhism. In no other Theravāda Buddhist society have monks enjoyed constituted political authority or ever organized themselves systematically to take control of the political realm. While it is generally held, by the majority of the Sinhalese, that in earlier times monks acted as advisors to political rulers and thereby wielded considerable influence, never before had monks sought to enter the political sphere competing with the laity in the struggle for power. According to the Sinhalese concept, a monk can take the role of a “worldly” leader or, from a common Sinhalese term, as “the guardian deity of the nation,” in case the Sinhalese people and their Buddhist culture is threatened. In this case, the Sri Lankan clergy have a responsibility to assume leadership, as „inscribed“ in the religio-historic chronicle of the Mahāvamsa. In March 2004, things changed. Monks of the “Jathika Hela Urumaya” (“National Sinhala Heritage Party”), an organisation which had been established rather hastily, appeared before the election authorities and handed in nomination papers to contest in the April 2004 elections. As a result, they hold nine seats in the new parliament. The most remarkable feature of the JHU is their official denial of seeking power. Instead, they claim that they are making a sacrifice, and going on a journey, or rather a pilgrimage, to achieve a ”dharmarajya” – a righteous state-, and a ”bauddha rajyaya” – a buddhist state -, after which they will return to their natural vocation of ministry and personal spiritual development. In making this claim, they have skillfully used a cluster of symbols, metaphors and terms derived from the vocabulary of Buddhism. For example, they use an existing political party, the Sinhala Urumaya, as a „raft“ to lawfully enter the electoral competition, utilizing to the full the associations of that metaphor in Buddhist literature, which include commitment, and detachment. As their party symbol they have selected the conch, a symbol associated with victory and auspiciousness in Hindu-influenced Buddhist royal ritual. Their election campaign was not made of rallies like those of other political parties, but of „Buddhist seminars“. Their electoral campaign itself was termed a ”paramita”, appropriating the widely known Buddhist term that denotes the perfections achieved by the Buddha in his previous
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