{"id":1896,"date":"2026-05-27T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:17:51","slug":"government-to-amend-buddhist-temples-ordinance-to-re-establish-dharma-court-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/27\/government-to-amend-buddhist-temples-ordinance-to-re-establish-dharma-court-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to Amend Buddhist Temples Ordinance to Re-establish \u201cDharma Court\u201d \u2013 President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that the government is taking steps to amend the Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance No. 19 of 1931 in order to re-establish a \u201cDharma Court\u201d with the authority to make decisions regarding disciplinary issues involving Buddhist monks.<\/p>\n<p>The President made these remarks while addressing the National Vesak celebration held today (27) at the Mitellawala Viharaya in Matara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that the government is taking steps to amend the Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance No. 19 of 1931 in order to re-establish a \u201cDharma Court\u201d with the authority to make decisions regarding disciplinary issues involving Buddhist monks. The President made these remarks while addressing the National Vesak celebration held today &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}