ABSTRACT
Many Christians in Sri Lanka remember Methodist missionaries, Daniel John Gogerly and Robert Spence Hardy, as caring, pioneering teachers. Buddhists, however, link them with betrayal, because both studied Buddhism to undermine it. As recently as 2001, the Report of the Sinhala Commission Part II identified Methodists as particularly guilty in twisting and decrying Buddhism, no doubt thinking of these two (The National Joint Committee 2001: 38).
