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Degree certificates of monks will not be transferable to lay names - President

If anyone needs to de robe he should discuss with Mahanayake Theras

President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said in Parliament that the degree certificates of monks will not be transferable if monks de robe.

He said today, “a large number of people enter universities as monks but end up as laymen. Initially, we must decide that if we enter the university as monks, we will be awarded the degree as monks, and it will not be transferable. If anyone need to de robe he should discuss it with their Mahanayake Theras”.

The President said the behaviour of the monks in universities should also be linked to these discourses. If the existing method continued,   our order will be lost. That’s why I raised this issue today, he noted. “It is not possible to gain special protection by merely wearing robes and acting against the Dharma.

Sometimes, through this behavior, the issues of the Sangha society are raised by the lay people. Here we have to discuss this at length”, he said.

 


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