I Take Refuge
- 2011
- 9m
The story of Charlini Somaweera and Ravi Amarawansa, two Sinhalese Sri Lankan Americans from Southern California, and how they able to use their Buddhist temple as a site to connect with the... Read allThe story of Charlini Somaweera and Ravi Amarawansa, two Sinhalese Sri Lankan Americans from Southern California, and how they able to use their Buddhist temple as a site to connect with their Sri Lankan Sinhala identity. Somaweera and Amarawansa talk frankly about the subtle rac... Read allThe story of Charlini Somaweera and Ravi Amarawansa, two Sinhalese Sri Lankan Americans from Southern California, and how they able to use their Buddhist temple as a site to connect with their Sri Lankan Sinhala identity. Somaweera and Amarawansa talk frankly about the subtle racism they have experienced and the notion that they are not 'Sri Lankan enough'. They descr... Read all