M edia Influence on the Attitudinal Changing of the Present Monastic Buddhist Monk in Sri Lanka. Dr. Dharmakeerthi Sri Ranjan Faculty of Mass Media / Center for Media Research (CMR)\ Sri Palee Campus, University of Colombo, Horana, Sri Lanka. ranjan@spc.cmb.ac.lk / ranjan2007@gmail.com Abstract: TheravÄda Buddhism, also called Vinaya, is composed of hundreds of rules in vignette form in Sri Lankan society that regulate the lives of a fourfold community, monks, nuns, laymen and ,laywomen. The individual unconditional renunciation is the basis for the Buddhist deliberation, as well as the distinction between the worldly and the supermundane. So, communal stipulations are not absolutely insignificant but are secondary to individual freedom and religiously less meaningful. Though the Buddhist monastic renounced secular affairs, society has never completely been segregated from the local, social and material issues. As such, social, technological a...