Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance No. 19 of 1931 (and successor Buddha Sasana legislation)

Colonial-era ordinance institutionalising state administration of Buddhist temple property — carried forward and expanded by post-independence Sri Lankan governments through the Ministry of Buddha Sasana (created 1990s, now Ministry of Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs). Provides the administrative architecture by which the state funds vihara construction, archaeological restoration, and Bhikkhu welfare — with no symmetrical ministry for Hindu, Muslim, Catholic, or Evangelical Christian institutions of comparable budget or statutory weight. Document this as the OPERATIONAL layer underneath Article 9: the asymmetry is not just declarative, it is line-itemed in the national budget.