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Item Relocating Dharmapala thought in postmodern society(Ministry of Buddha Sasana and Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Jinadasa, M.Dharmapala thought had been instrumental in the Buddhist revolution in the late colonial period in early 20th century. However, use of Dharmapala thought in solving contemporary ethnic issue related to post-colonial Sri Lanka remains isolated in the perspective of ethnic and religious extremism. This paper studies the allocations and limitations of Dharmapala thought in the context of modern post-liberal political and economic policy. Using a critical appraisal, which, form a central part of the systematic review process, this study reviews the validity and generalizability of the Dharmapala thought, while comparatively analyze it with the postmodern thought of Deconstruction originated by Jacques Derrida. As Buddhist thought was instrumental in forming the Dharmapala thesis , this study assumes the use of essence of Buddhist thought to relocate the Dharmapala thought provide a more platform for a multicultural nationality for a more diverse soft power in establishing a Sri Lankan Nationality in 21st Century.Item Asian Information Philosophy for E- Learning; Case of Open and Distance Education in Sri Lanka(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jinadasa, M.A difference that makes a difference is defined as Information by Gregory Bateson (1972). Information Philosophy is a modern discipline of thecritical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilization and sciences andthe elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems ( Floridi,2003) merging of both Philosophy and Information Sciences. Information philosophy has been developed as a result of the amalgamation of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Sciences, Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy. Cybernetics is one of the interesting contributions made by Norbert Wiener, Alan Turing, William Ross Ashby, Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver in the mid 20th century, when they had to explore the telecommunication and information channels for American Bell Company. Luciano Floridi in 1990 termed this as Philosophy of Information. Despite of the fact the e- learning, which is introduced for third world countries (in recent higher education modification policies) as an effective mode of education, it is highly found in the western philosophy that provides a plat form of non-local remote culture and behavior of human. However, this study tries to explore the contents and capacities of Asian information philosophy, so that application of e- learning could be possible with sustainable and productive implementation that avoids the differences and limitation on non-grounded philosophy for local clients. Assuming that if there is a proper understanding on the Asian information theory, that discusses the existing cognitive and neuro-linguistic apparatuses, it could be possible to manage the existing issues emerging in the phase of initiating E- learning in the open and distance education system for Sri Lanka. For this study it is used first a conceptual and analytical exposition on what is Asian Infroamtion Philosophy and How it is content on our traditions and philosophies, and second, to search for necessary avenues for implementing e-leaning on the proposed audiences, it uses on-going and well as received responses and existing applications of the case of Open and Distance Education program of the University of Kelaniya.Item Psychology of the Cultural Public Relations in Sri Lanka; Case of the Tsunami in 12/24/2004(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jinadasa, M.Sri Lankan Culture has been fundamentally formed by the Asian religious and cultural foundation.. Yet, Sri Lanka has been colonialized by three European countries in last three hundred and forty three years of period, hospitality, cooperativeness and participatory involvement at the face of others misery and pathetic situations are highly embedded in the culture of Sri Lanka despite its multi- religious and multi-cultural differences (Peris, 1962; Obesekara, 1993Blundal, 1995). This study used the methods of participatory observations, in-depth interviews and textual and discourse analyses reference to the case of Tsunami 12/24/2004. In addition, real world experiences in the remote rural and urban societies were also used for the descriptive analysis of this study. Data were comparatively and descriptively analyzed. The social organization of the Sri Lanka is largely distinguished by many locally constructed features of agriculture and Buddhist religious practices along with the origin and development of Sri Lankan society. Endowment is the noblest and life-long contribution to the survival of human society which has been significantly reflected by the use of vernacular language in their inter-personal communications and cultural exchange in their life. Providing shelter, foods, water for others, when they are so depressed by calamities and disasters are some of the key elements of the Sri Lankan national culture. Living with the harmony with different ethnics and identities is the overwhelmingly galvanized concept of the local people. This ethnic and cultural harmony has been disturbed by the colonial attitudes of some of the middle class generation, However, when they had to face a national calamity, they save others.Item Deprivation of Dharmapala thought in Local History of National Freedom and the Dominance of Western Ideology and the Problem of Local Thinking(Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jinadasa, M.National freedom struggle from Britain in the early 20th century has been much concentrated by the works of urban elite class, who were comprised by both communist labor leaders and the people who educated at the British Ox-bridge tradition. However, the contribution of Anagarika Dharmapala on the Freedom Struggle has been underestimated by the contemporary political and social discourses. Resurrection of Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism is the most popular and much focus concern of Anagarika Dharmapala. This has not limited only towards the Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism but also it has earlier influence for the construction of freedom struggle before the scattered opinion among local people. However, widely accepted notion on the freedom achievement drew from the western educated and urban labor leaders, has established in the spheres of political science and Mass communication studies. In Conclusion, Dharmapala has immensely contributed for making a pre-conditional concrete social thought and national political environment for national freedom in Sri Lanka. However, dominant social and political thought were establishing from the British colonialism and urban elite class from the very beginning of mid-19th century. As a result, contribution of Dharmapala was neglected by the colonial educators at the mid-20th century simultaneously with the construction of British ruling and educating system in the national policy planning. This was mostly due to the facts that British educated local people, who were represented in the parliament and the negligence of the contribution of Dharmapala by ill-treating and misconceptioning on narrow ethnic and cultural perspectives by the local people.