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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna This is an expanded version of an address delivered by Mr. Senaka Weeraratna, Hony. Secretary of the German Dharmaduta Society, on Sept. 28, 2016 in support of his Resolution entitled ‘Recognition of Buddhism as an official religion in non – Buddhist countries’ at the First Plenary Session of the 28th General Conference of […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy: Ceylon Today The visiting Independent Expert on Minority Issues of the Human Rights Council Rita Izsak-Ndiaye noted that despite there being a semblance of peaceful coexistence between different religious groups, there are challenges in relation to minority religious groups who face difficulties in constructing certain new places of worship and […]
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Monday, October 10th, 2016
Editorial by Kooi Fong Lim, Founder of Buddhist Channel, October 10, 2016 http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=6,12976,0,0,1,0#.V_rE9OV96JA Petaling Jaya, Malaysia – We will be fifteen years old on October 10, 2016. It is hard to believe that 15 years ago, we started this platform on the heels of the Bamiyan Buddha destruction. I remember clearly that day on February 2001, […]
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Sunday, October 9th, 2016
The world’s first Buddhist animal rights conference The first Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference co-hosted by Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) and Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) was held successfully at Hotel Skypark Kingstown, Dongdaemun in Seoul, South Korea on Friday September 30, 2016 immediately after the conclusion of the 28th General Conference […]
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
The Buddhist Channel, Sept 26, 2016 Seoul, South Korea — The first Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference co-hosted by Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) and Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) will be a single whole day event on September 30, 2016 and will be held at Hotel Skypark Kingstown, Dongdaemun in Seoul, South Korea […]
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
පන්සල හා කිතුණු පල්ලිය අතර මිත්රත්වයේ පාලම ගොඩනැගූ මර්සලින් ජයකොඩි පියතුමන් මෙන්ම අැත්ත අැති සැටියෙන් දත් තවත් කිතුනුවෙක්. පන්සල හා කිතුණු පල්ලිය අතර මිත්රත්වයේ පාලම ගොඩනැගූ මර්සලින් ජයකොඩි පියතුමන් මෙන්ම අැත්ත අැති සැටියෙන් දත් තවත් කිතුනුවෙක්. මුහුණු පොතෙන්
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Monday, October 3rd, 2016
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනය ජාතික භික්ෂු පෙරමුණ මහානායක හිමිවරුන්ගේ මතය නොසලකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත්කොට සම්මත කිරිමට යන විහාර දේවාලගම් සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත හා සංඝ කතිකාවත ආණ්ඩු ඉදිරිපත්ව සංඝයා භේදකිරීමට අටවන කෙමනක් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්යවරයා මුල්ව ඔක් 4 වන දින විහාර දේවාලගම් සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් හා සංඝ කතිතාවතක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුුවට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට සූදානමින් සිටියි. ඒ සම්බන්ධනව මහානායක හිමිවරුන්ගේ මත විමසීමේදී උන්වහන්සේලා මෙම […]
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
Mahinda Gunasekera Tambrook Drive , Toronto, Canada Hon. Wijayadasa Rajapaksha, MP Minister of Justice and the Buddha Sasana 135 Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha Colombo 7, Sri Lanka Copy: Hon. H.R. Sarathi Dushmantha, MP Deputy Minister of Buddha Sasana Copy to: Mr. Wasantha Ekanayake, Secretary, Ministry of Buddha Sasana Honourable Minister, Recognition of Sri Lankan Bhikkunis and […]
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
Cecil Atukorale ( L.L.B- University of Colombo) After the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka King Devanampiyatissa in emulation of Ashoka who made Buddhism the state religion of India, made it the state religion of Sri Lanka also and it existed as such for over 2000 years until 1815 when the country went under a […]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna The grant of a Ramon Magsaysay Award in the Philippines to Pandit W. D. Amaradeva (in 2001), inasmuch as it brought honour to Sri Lanka drew attention to a glaring deficiency in this country’s national scheme of distribution of awards i.e. the lack of a comparable International Prize in the name of an […]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2016
By Dharma Hewamadduma(Former Act Secretary Ministry of Health and Adl Secretary Ministry of Justice.) Courtesy The Island In memory of Anagarika Dharmapala, whose 152nd birth anniversary falls today When he was born on Sept. 17, 1864 the Sinhalese had been deprived of their energy, confidence and spirit due to the colonial rule of the Portuguese, the […]
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
by Senaka Weeraratna The German Dharmaduta Society, Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) based in Sri Lanka has submitted a Resolution to be tabled at the forthcoming 28th General Conference of the WFB to be held in Seoul, South Korea from Sept. 26 -30, 2016, calling on WFB to join hands with […]
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Sunday, September 11th, 2016
Adaderana The pledge that has been given by the Government to protect the foremost place of Buddhism must be credited, Bishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith says. He expressed this view while participating at a religious ceremony held at the Holy Cross Church in Gampaha. We thankful for the President and the Prime Minister as […]
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
බුදුන් වහන්සේට අපහාස කල අගමැති රනිල්ට හාමුදුරුකෙනෙක් රෙදි ගැලවෙන්නම කියයි https://youtu.be/JzbnuSi93zo
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
ජාතික භික්ෂු පෙරමුණ පුරා වසර 77 ක් ආයු වළඳා අපවත්වී වදාළ නාඋයනේ අරියධම්ම ශී්ර ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහ නිකායේ අනුනායක ධුරන්ධර නාහිමිපාණන්ගේ වියෝව ලාංකීය සංඝ ශාසනයට අපරිපූරණිය පාඩුවකි. තෙවලා බුදුදහම ඇතුළත් ති්රපිටකය පිළිබඳ ප්රාමාණකි දැනුමකින් හෙබි යතිවරයන් වහන්සේලා අතර ඉදිරියෙන්ම වැඩසිටි අප නාහිමියෝ භාෂා විශාරදත්වයෙන්ද නිපුණයහ. පරිසමාප්ත වූ අරුතින්ම ති්රපිටකධාරී තෙරනමකැයි සංකා විරහිතව පැවසිය හැකි නාඋයනේ […]
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the foremost interest of the Buddha Sasanaya and its affairs a lawyer activist yesterday filed a fundamental rights petition seeking to safeguard and foster the Buddha Sasana against any attack or threats. Petitioner N. Dharshana Weraduwage said his petition had been filed in the backdrop of the recent vandalism of […]
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
දිවයින යාපනය – මහනුවර ඒ-09 මාර්ගයේ කනගරායන්කුලම ප්රදේශයේ මීට වසර කීපයකට පෙර යුද හමුදාව විසින් ස්ථාපිත කරන ලද බුදු පිළිම දෙකක් 29 දා රාත්රී කිසියම් පිරිසක් විසින් විනාශ කොට තිබේ. අඩි තුනහමාරක් සහ අඩි එකහමාරක් උස සුදු පැහැති මෙම බුදු පිළිම දෙක කැබලිවලට කඩා සිරස් දෙක ඒ අසල තබා ඇත. මෙම බුදු පිළිම දෙක යුද […]
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Friday, August 26th, 2016
Management of Buddhist Monasteries A public lecture on Reward Management Practices of Monasteries with Reference to the Epigraph of King Mahinda IV (1026-1042 CE)” will be delivered at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium, No.26, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7 on Monday August 29, 2016 at 5.00 p.m. It will be delivered by Dinithi Padmasiri, Lecturer, Human […]
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Sunday, August 21st, 2016
Sugath Samarasinghe I am indeed very much moved by the letter of Concerned Citizens of Sri Lanka, Sentinels, Against Wildlife Crime that appeared in The Island of the 9th instant. I think the problems of elephants spread further than that. Unlike the elephants at the Perahera which are made to walk to Kandy and through […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
by Bhikkhu Bodhi August 16, 2016, 8:07 pm Several months ago I went for a two-week retreat to a hermitage in the low country highly respected for the austere, meditative life of its monks. Each day a different group of dayakas (donors) comes to the monastery bringing almsfood, often from remote towns and villages. They […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2016
Christian Thomas Kohl, Freiburg, University of Education Dear Asoka Bandarage, Thank you for your article “Buddhist Fundamentalism”? In your article you mention the reasons why Buddhists in many countries of Asia had been attacked by Muslims. You explain how Buddhist are just defending against Muslim domination and Muslim aggressivities in many aspects. That’s right. This […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
Asoka Bandarage Courtesy The HuffingtonPost.com There are innumerable accounts in the international media and academia on aggression against religious minorities, especially the Muslims, in the Buddhist majority countries in South and Southeast Asia. They report incitement of violence by ‘militant’ Buddhist monks of the the MaBaTha and the 969 Movement against the Rohingyas in Burma, Thai […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
Courtesy comerjet.com Published On: Fri, Aug 5th, 2016 බුදුදහමේ අතීතය ඊජිප්තු පිරමීඩ ඉතිහාසය දක්වා විසිර ඇති බව සොයාගැනේ..!!! ෆ්ලින්ඩර්ස් නම් ඊජිප්තු ඉතිහාසඥයා මේ බැව් සාක්ෂි සහිතව පෙන්වා දී ඇත.අශෝක අධිරාජයාගේ ධර්ම දුත කණ්ඩායම් ලොව සිව් දෙස බුදුදහම විකාශණය කරමින් ගිය බැව් පිළිබඳව සාක්ෂි හමුවී ඇත.මේ ලිපිය බලන්න… Did Buddhism exist in Upper Egypt and the Lower […]
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Thursday, August 4th, 2016
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Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Please sign the petition https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-human-rights-council-save-larung-gar-world-s-largest-buddhist-monastery-home-to-10-000-facing-demolition? The Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, which is probably the world’s largest Buddhist monastic community, was founded by Choeje Yishin Norbu Khenpo Jigme Phuntshok. The academy, as framed by the late Khenpo, has been serving as the wellspring of knowledge. It is also the home for many Buddhist practitioners and the source […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
by Professor A.D.T.E. Perera A new light on ancient Middle East religio-politics through literary and archaeological evidence Launch of the Sinhala Translation of the Book ‘ Buddhism in Ancient Arabia and Israel’ on April 10, 2016 The Buddha Statue in Khurul Monastery in southern Russia. Professor A.D.T.E. Perera (Formerly, Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, Government […]
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna DVA appeals to lawyers and animal rights activists to make International Justice Day on July 17 a platform to promote animal rights. 17th July is World Day for International Justice, also referred to as Day of International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day. July 17 has been chosen because it marks the anniversary […]
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
by Bruno Marshall Shirley, International Policy Digest, 29 Jun 2016 United Nations, New York — This month the UN released a report addressing serious” human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar at the hands of the Buddhist majority, and the two-year anniversary of Sri Lanka’s deadly Aluthgama and Dharga Town riots, allegedly incited by Buddhist […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
සුජීව දිසානායක උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ක්රි.ව. 5 සියවස පමණ වන විට ථෙරවාදි බුදුදහම ප්රබල අර්බුදයකට මුහුණදී තිබුණි. ඒ මහායාන ආගමික සංකල්පයන්ගෙන් ථෙරවාදය ගිලගැනීමයි. ක්රි.ව. 01 සියවසේ කණිෂ්ක දවස කාශ්මීරයේදී පවත්වන්නට යෙදුණු සිව්වන ධර්ම සංගායනාවත් සමග සංස්කෘත භාෂාව අන් කවරදාටත් වඩා බුදුදහම ආක්රමණය කරන්නට විය. මේ නිසා බුදුදහම ආශ්රිතව තිබූ පාලි භාෂාවට ප්රබල තර්ජනයක් මතු විය. මතු […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
රාත්මලාන ධර්ම පර්යේෂණාලයේ හෑගොඩ විපස්සී හිමි බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ දේශනා කළ ශ්රී සද්ධර්මය ත්රිපිටකයේ සඳහන් වෙනවා. අභිධර්මය ඇතුළු විවිධ සූත්ර ඇතුළත් මෙහි තුන්පිටකය සමඟ නිතැතින්ම කියෑවෙන ග්රන්ථාවලියක් තියෙනවා. එය අප හඳුන්වන්නේ අටුවාව ලෙසයි. මෙය පාලි භාෂාවෙන් හඳුන්වනු ලබන්නේ අට්ඨ කතා ලෙසයි. පාලි භාෂාවෙන් අට්ඨ කතා යන්න අටුවා” ලෙස ව්යවහාරයට පැමිණ තිබෙනවා. බුද්ධ දේශනාව ආශ්රයෙන්ම අටුවාව ගොඩනැගී තිබෙනවා. […]
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