{"id":11072,"date":"2013-05-25T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2013-05-25T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T05:23:14","slug":"buddhist-monk-sets-himself-on-fire-to-protest-against-the-slaughter-of-cattle-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=11072","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist monk sets himself on fire to protest against the slaughter of cattle in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11070\" alt=\"m2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m22.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m22.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m22-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m22-394x300.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a>A Buddhist monk has suffered serious injuries after setting himself on fire to protest against the slaughter of cattle.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan police said the monk set himself on fire today near the famed Temple of Buddha&#8217;s Tooth Relic in the central town of Kandy.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly had told other monks that he was burning himself to protest the killing of cattle for meat.<\/p>\n<p>The monk was brought to Colombo National Hospital in the capital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Buddhism, Sri Lanka&#8217;s state religion, opposes the killing of any life. Nearly 75 percent of Sri Lankans are Buddhists.<\/p>\n<p>Many Buddhists in Sri Lanka do eat meat, but most avoid beef because they consider cows sacred.<b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist monk has suffered serious injuries after setting himself on fire to protest against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}