Prabhakaran had come to personify the movement, and his end, so wretched, became the emblem of Tamil defeat and Sinhalese triumph.
“Our country is a Sinhalese one and we are its unofficial police,” one monk announced.
There are many Sinhalese Buddhists who are mortified by the turn their country has taken under the Rajapaksas.
Just as the Tooth was considered to be the palladium of Sinhalese kings.
The Sinhalese, unlike the Hindus, had no native propensity to speculation.
Sinhalese and Burmese traditions also credit him with the despatch of missionaries who converted Suvarṇabhûmi or Pegu.
Such Sinhalese kings as had the power protected the Church and erected magnificent buildings for its service.
The Sinhalese tradition agrees on the whole with the data supplied by Indian inscriptions and Chinese pilgrims.
The Sinhalese chronicles, as mentioned, say that it was brought to Ceylon in the ninth year of Sirimeghavaṇṇa.
The tooth did not, according to Sinhalese tradition, form part of the relics distributed after the cremation of the Buddha.
also Singhalese, "pertaining to Sri Lanka," 1797, from Sanskrit Sinhala "Sri Lanka, Ceylon," from simhala-, literally "of lions," from simhah "lion." As the name of a language spoken there, it is attested from 1801.
