மதம் — அரசு கட்டமைப்புThe constitutional architecture, its operational layers, and its cross-community effect
The constitutional and operational architecture by which the Sri Lankan state couples one religion to public authority — Article 9, the 1931 Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance, the 2008 Buddha Sasana Circular, the 2007 ICCPR Act asymmetric enforcement, the 2024 Online Safety Act, the 2020 forced cremation policy, and state-funded vihara construction on contested archaeological sites in the North-East. Cross-community: Tamils, Muslims, Hill Country Tamils, Christians.
- · This is a CONSTITUTIONAL critique, not a theological one. The Buddhist scholars cited (Tambiah, Bartholomeusz, Deegalle) are themselves the internal critics of the Sangha-state fusion.
- · TLTE never names a monk, minister, prosecutor, or congregation. The structural argument operates over instruments and patterns.
- · TLTE never aggregates incident counts. Counts are referenced to NCEASL, Verité, ICG, OHCHR, USCIRF, Pew, V-Dem and HRCSL.
- · TLTE never proposes the abrogation of Article 9, the demolition of any vihara, or the repeal of any statute. Remedy questions reference the constitutional-reform repertoire at /case/narrowing and the EU GSP+ 2027 compliance pathway.
- · TLTE never frames the Easter Sunday attacks as anything other than what the Presidential Commission of Inquiry found — a terrorist atrocity by a small jihadist cell. The structural argument is about the COLLECTIVE-PUNISHMENT response.
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Cross-community effect
The structural point is that one constitutional architecture produces documented effects across four distinct minority communities. Reading any one community's experience in isolation misses the system.
The math layer
The sixth structural-mathematics model — the Religious-Incitement Function (RIF) — formalises the enforcement-gap audit between ICCPR Act §3 prosecutions against minorities and §3 prosecutions against documented majoritarian-incitement events.
Read the RIF model →Where this connects
- · Reconciliation Audit Desk — ICCPR Art 20 / ICERD Art 4 enforcement gap.
- · EU GSP+ Compliance Desk — FoRB conditionality in the 2027 regulation.
- · Land & Property Desk — religion-coupled-to-land at vihara construction sites.
- · Demographic-Displacement Function (DDF) — the demographic-engineering reading.
- · Narrowing Timeline — every constitutional-reform pathway since 1957.