Rev Walpola Piyananda  Dear friends, Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara organization has planned to give the opportunity to a team of youngsters (age 17+) to be sponsors and organizers of the 2022 Kathina ceremony. Our goal is to give full responsibility to this young team for conducting all the tasks and events from the initiation- Kathina […]

Dhamma talk of Ven. Bhante Wimala  Since 1999 Venerable Bhante Y. Wimala has been the head monk and the spiritual teacher of the Theravada Buddhist Center in Nairobi, Kenya. The Center is located in a beautiful suburb of Nairobi called Loresho, just a few miles away from the city center. The center was built by […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Princeton University Social Anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeysekere has said that Theosophists led by Col. Henry Steel Olcott introduced a protestant” and purified” form of Buddhism in Ceylon when Buddhists in the island were demoralized” by the disestablishment” of their religion by the British rulers. But Obeysekere’s view is challenged by […]

Courtesy News18 Rajapaksa will land at the new Kushinagar International Airport which will be inaugurated the same day by Modi. In what will be a major diplomatic visit next week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh on October 20. The Sri Lankan President will be accompanied […]

Senaka Weeraratna In November 1968 Sepala Amarasuriya took an initiative to form a Buddhist Youth Forum and invited a number of his classmates, school friends, and friends outside these two circles to join the Forum. The Office bearers were: Anusasaka or Patron: Ven. Piyadassi Thera of the Vajiraramaya President : Hiranthi JayasuriyaVice President: Tilak GunawardanaJoint […]

Courtesy MailOnLine People in March 2021 watch a three-dimensional projection of the Salsal Buddha at the site where the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001 Sri Lanka called Wednesday on the world to safeguard the Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan under the Taliban, who provoked outrage by destroying […]

Courtesy ANI Foundation for Buddhist Brotherhood commends India’s work for maintaining ties with neighbours Read more At: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/foundation-for-buddhist-brotherhood-commends-indias-work-for-maintaining-ties-with-neighbours20210918230831/

Harindra Jayalal නේරංජනා නදිය අසබඩ ඉපදුණු රෝෂන් කුමාර් නමැති හින්දු තරුණයා ජීවිතේ සැබෑ සුන්දර බව පතා නිරෝධ සාමණේර නමින් බුදුමගට පිවිසි අයුරු.

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 30 (Ceylon Today): Sir Edwin Arnold, a 19 th., Century Indologist,  journalist, poet and author of the immensely popular Light of Asia on the life of the Buddha, campaigned hard, both singly and in collaboration with the Ceylonese monk Anagarika Dharmapala, to retrieve the ancient Buddhist shrine at Buddha Gaya from […]

Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok, Thailand The Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok, Thailand in collaboration with Sri Dalada Maligawa, Sri Lanka Tourism & Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (MCU) in Thailand presented the very first live telecast of Sri Lanka’s most historic and colourful cultural event Esala Perahera Randoli in Sri Lanka on MCU TV Channel in Thai Language […]

Courtesy ABC News Australian quarantine is nursing a sacred sapling from a Sri Lankan bohdi tree that can be directly linked back to Buddha more than 2,300 years ago. Key points: Sapling from the famous bodhi tree in Sri Lanka is currently in Australian quarantine waiting to be planted in Bendigo The specimen is a […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් අප කුඩා කල සිට දහම් පාසලේ දී පවා උගත් ධම්මපදය මෙයට ඉතා සුදුසු සේ සලකමි. අප උගත් ධම්මපදයේ පාලි ගාථා 423 කි. බුදුන්වහන්සේ එක් සූත‍්‍රයක් ලෙස දේශනා කොට නැත. අවස්ථා තුන්සියයකදී පමණ දේශනා කරන ලද, පැවිදි ගිහි දෙපිරිසට ම අදාල මේ ගාථා පළමු සංගායනාවේ දී ‘ධම්මපද’ නමින් කාණ්ඩයක් ලෙස […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් සිහල අටුවා මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළයි දඹදිව ගයාවේ දී රේවත මහ ථෙරුන්ගෙන් ති‍්‍රපිටකය හදාරා දැනුම සම්පූර්ණ කරගැනීම සඳහා ලංකාවේ පමණක් තිබූ මිහිඳු මාහිමියන් විසින් සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් කරන ලද සිහල අටුවා හදාරා ලෝවැඩ පිණිස මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළීම සඳහා බුද්ධඝෝෂ හිමියන් පැමිණි බව සහ යෝග්‍යතා පරීක්‍ෂණයෙන් සමත් වූ පසුව ‘සියලූ සිංහල අටුවා […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් මෑත කාලයක සිට සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනයා අතර මාගධී භාෂාව සහ පාලි භාෂාව ගැන අපූරු අදහසක් මතු කොට ඇත. ඒ අදහස නම්, බුදුන්වහන්සේ ධර්ම දේශනා කළේ මාගධී භාෂාවෙන් මිස පාලි භාෂාවෙන් නොවේ. මෙයින් මාගධී සහ පාලි භාෂා වෙන් වෙන් වූ භාෂා දෙකක් බව ප‍්‍රකාශිතව හඟවයි. මේ භාෂා එකක් ද? නැත්නම් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 12 (Xinhua): A tusker, escorted by the Special Task Force is on a 10-day journey to participate in the Kandy Esala Perahera, which is scheduled to be held from Aug. 14 to 24 in Kandy. The festival is one of the grandest Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, with an elephant parade […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 8 (The Citizen):  Unsustainable claims put forward by the Sinhalese and the Tamils on language, religion and ethnicity, have muddied Sri Lankan politics in the post-independence era. The Sinhalese loudly proclaim that Buddhism is quintessentially and exclusively, a Sinhala” religion. The Tamils, on the other hand, claim with equal vehemence, that […]

By Maung Htin Aung The June 10, 1962 edition of the Times of Ceylon contained the following tales about the tooth relic, the Burma connection and other legends surrounding the relic. Excerpts from the article: Maligawa Tusker steps on the Pavada carrying the casket of relics A recent statement in the popular ‘Believe it or […]

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 26 (newsin.asia): The International Buddhist Confederation, with the support of the Indian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Mahabodhi Society of India and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations organized the annual Esala Poya Day (known as Ashada Purnima in India) on July 24 to mark the first sermon by Lord Buddha. The President of […]

By supun fernando, CEO at Helpsmaster Courtesy Thrive Global Buddhism is the dominant religion in Myanmar, Japan, Tibet, Laos, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.The Buddhist philosophy is based on the free will to search inside yourself, whatever you think is physically and mentally good for you and what isn’t (hence it’s flexibility). Buddha himself encouraged people to search […]

Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok To Commemorate the Vesak Day-2021 (2564 B.E.), the telecast of the international award-winning True Little Monk” (“True Plookpanya”), documentary series was launched on the Vesak Full Moon Poya Day, 26 May 2021 (2564 B.E. on Haritha TV during the Buddha Rashmi” National Vesak Programme 2021 held at […]

By Alison Spiegel Courtesy tricycle Representatives from the three major Buddhist traditions gathered for prayers and candle lighting. Wednesday, May 26, 2021 marked a historic moment for Buddhists in the US. For the first time ever, the White House celebrated Vesak, the holiday that commemorates the Buddha’s birthday, death, and enlightenment. Wangmo Dixey, Executive Director of Dharma College and […]

By Melani Manel Perera/Asia News Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo. May  27: Sri Lankan Buddhists are currently celebrating the two-day Vesak festival. The event, which ends today, commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha. Like last year, ceremonies are subject to strict health restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic –  such as social […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While wishing the members of the Venerable Maha Sangha and the Buddhist public, a blessed Vesak celebration, Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said that in these troubled times, when Covid-19 is afflicting our nation, it is important for us to think about our life options in the light […]

By Kalinga Seneviratne Courtesy Eurasiareview A former musician turned Buddhist monk, Bhante Sujato, an Australian, has taken up a mammoth task to translate and publish thousands of Buddhist texts known as Sutta (discourses of the Buddha) into many languages. Accompanied by Sri Lankan Kandyan dancers and drummers, he recently launched an Internet portal ‘Sutta Central’ […]

Courtesy Pakistan Today ISLAMABAD: A 14-member delegation of visiting Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka visited several archaeological sites of Gandhara civilisation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and performed religious rituals. The delegation arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday for a week-long visit aimed at strengthening cultural ties between Islamabad and Colombo based on shared Buddhist heritage. The guests visited […]

Fazal Khaliq Courtesy Dawn SWAT: Sri Lankan Buddhist monks said here on Saturday that the paradisiacal Swat valley remained the centre of Buddhism and had immense importance for Buddhists all over the world. They said this during their visit to the Buddhist archaeological sites of Gandhara Buddhist civilisation in Swat valley. The delegation include senior […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 13 (newsin.asia): The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, Maj.Gen.(R) Md.Saad Khattak, on Tuesday met the Venerable Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero, the Chief Incumbent of the Alan Mathiniyaramaya at his temple in Kirulapona and wished him on his birthday. They cut a cake to celebrate the occasion. In their discussions the […]

Courtesy Hiru News බුද්ධ චරිතය, ත්‍රිපිටකය සහ බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථාන පිළිබඳ වැරදි අර්ථකතන දෙමින් දුර්මත පතුරවන අය ගැන සොයා බලා ගත යුතු පියවර රජයට නිර්දේශ කිරීමට කමිටුවක් පත් කර තිබෙනවා. බෞද්ධ උපදේශක සභාව අද (19) පස්වරුවේ 09 වැනි වතාවට ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේ දී රැස් වූ අවස්ථාවේ ත්‍රෛනිකායික මහා නායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේ  ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ වෙත කළ ලිඛිත ඉල්ලීමට […]

by Martin Baumann See web link https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin-Baumann-7/publication/318673000_Creating_a_Focal_Point_for_Buddhism_in_the_West_The_German_Buddhist_Pioneer_Paul_Dahlke/links/59ae6d7e0f7e9bdd1162743c/Creating-a-Focal-Point-for-Buddhism-in-the-West-The-German-Buddhist-Pioneer-Paul-Dahlke.pdf Extracted from Buddhist Studies from India to America Essays in honour of Charles S. Prebish Edited by Damien Keown