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Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake used his Poson Full Moon Poya Day message to call for the revival of Buddhist values, as he moved to further position himself alongside the islands powerful Buddhist clergy.
Marking the Buddhist festival, Dissanayake said that it was on a Poson day that Buddhism was brought to the island, describing it as a moment that sparked both "a spiritual awakening and a far-reaching social transformation".
He went on to describe how Buddhism shaped Sri Lanka’s cultural, social and political order.