By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s secretary Lalith Weeratunga alleged India had a big hand in the mid-eighties in the planning and executing terrorist strikes in Sri Lanka while India, Britain and France made intense pressure on the President to stop the war when Sri Lanka was on the verge of defeating the […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 15 May 2012 Sri Lanka: To all MPs, of the Greater Toronto Area and its Suburbs. Bob Rae MP (Toronto Centre), Craig Scott MP (Toronto-Danforth), Olivia Chow MP (Trinity-Spadina), Julian Fantino MP (Vaughan), Chungsen Leung MP (Willowdale), Joe Comartin MP (Windsor-Techmseh),Mark Adler […]

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By Shelton Gunaratne, professor emeritus at Minnesota State University Moorhead Recently, the Lankaweb published two essays on the doctrine of paticca samuppada (P.S.): one by Suwanda Sugunasiri on May 9, and the other by R. Chandrasoma on May 12. ƒ”š‚ P.S. is central to Buddhist philosophy because Buddha intended it as an aid to understand the […]

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By J.B. Muller (The writer is a Sri Lankan Burgher and a member of the Dutch Burgher Union and the Burgher Association. He is also a free-lance journalist with over 40 years of experience in both the print and electronic media.) ======================== ƒ”š‚ Many Sri Lankan expatriates are wont to run-down their motherland unfairly comparing it […]

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Toronto News Supermoon day, May 5, 2012, ƒ”š‚ was super forƒ”š‚  the 100 or more Buddhists who assembled on the Ontario Legislature grounds to celebrate Wesak for the 32nd year in Toronto. Sponsored by the Buddhist Council of Canada, the 4 by 8 foot Torana with a full-size face of the Buddha was unveiled by the […]

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