ABSTRACT

This study explores how Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism is constructed in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, a post-war reunified state, through post-war travels. Sri Lankan government and the military forces have recreated Buddhist temples and monuments that were destroyed in the war and have re-introduced Buddhist signs and symbols. Thus, Sinhalese Buddhists visiting Jaffna gaze upon the region with a sense of ownership fueled by the triumphalism. This study adopts Michel Foucault’s discourse on power to reach its objectives and employs discourse analysis and ethnographic analysis to analyze the descriptive data. The study finds that the Sinhalese Buddhist Gaze in Jaffna is abstracted as omnipresent in a tripartite system extracted from ancient Sinhalese Buddhist notions: Rata (country), Jathiya (ethnicity), and Aagama (religion).

摘要

本研究通过战后旅行探索了僧伽罗佛教民族主义在战后统一的斯里兰卡贾夫纳是如何构建的。斯里兰卡政府和军队重建了在战争中被毁坏的佛教寺庙和纪念碑，并重新引入了佛教标志和符号。因此，访问贾夫纳的僧伽罗佛教徒以一种由胜利主义推动的主人翁感注视着该地区。本研究采用米歇尔·福柯关于权力的话语来达到其目的，并采用话语分析和民族志分析来分析描述性数据。该研究发现，贾夫纳的僧伽罗佛教凝视在从古代僧伽罗佛教观念中提取的三方系统中被抽象为无所不在：Rata（国家）、Jathiya（种族）和Aagama（宗教）。