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Sunday, June 5th, 2016
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama Cambridge, MA USA There is little agreement among Western scientists about the nature and function of mind, consciousness—or even about whether such a thing exists. Buddhism’s extensive explanations, however, stand firm after twenty-five centuries of philosophical debate and experiential validation. Here His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains the Buddhist concept […]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2016
By Ven. K. Ariyarathana “Those eight individuals praised by the virtuous, [(or) Those individuals numbering one hundred and eight praised by the wise] those couples are four (in number); those disciples of the Enlightened One are worthy of offerings;” ……….. (SN, 11.1) Noble Individuals are categorised in different ways in different contexts. Most frequently, we […]
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Monday, May 30th, 2016
By Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada [A shorter version of this article appeared in the Island Newspaper: http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=146074 Shelton Gunaratne (SG), an emeritus Professor of communication at Moorhead, Minnesota, USA has written in the Saturday Magazine of the Island (28th May, Island) that both Prof. Carlo Fonseka (CF), and Dr. Upul Wijayawardhana (UW) are wrong in […]
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Monday, May 30th, 2016
Asaf Federman, Institute of Advance Study & Department of Psychology, Warwick University ————————————————————————————————- Abstract In the past twenty years, new optimism about the relevance of Buddhism to cognitive science has been expressed by a number of established researchers. In this article I ask what are the conceptual roots of this optimism, and which forms of […]
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Friday, May 20th, 2016
Ven. Walpola Piyananda Dear Temple Members and Friends, I am sure that you are all aware of the flooding and mudslide disaster taking place in Sri Lanka. As of the time of this writing, 64 people have been reported dead, over 135 people are still missing, and thousands are homeless. We have a long tradition […]
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Friday, May 20th, 2016
By Senaka Weeraratna Buddhism has shaped the lives of our people, the identity, and the direction of our society in a way unmatched by any other religion. Buddhism has been the national faith for over two millennia and the bedrock of the culture and civilization of the Sinhalese people. Sri Lanka is the oldest Buddhist nation […]
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Friday, May 20th, 2016
The government of the United States has issued messages at the highest level marking the celebration of Vesak. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have conveyed the following Vesak greetings: Statement by the President Barack Obama Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to Buddhists in the United States and around the […]
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
By Bhikkhu Karmananda Tanchangya Editor’s note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 6, December 2007. The Abhidhamma-pitaka is the third Basket (pitaka) of the Theravada Tipitaka. The Pali term ‘Abhidhamma’ has an ambiguous meaning, of which two primary meanings given in the Pali tradition are noteworthy: 1. auxiliary (atireka) doctrines and 2. exceptional/superior/highest (visesa/vasisaha/uttama) doctrine. Ven. Buddhaghosa, the great Pali commentator, defines the term ‘Abhidhamma’ as – ‘that which exceeds and […]
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
බෞද්ධයා – The Buddhist වැව,දාගැබ සංකල්පය යටතේ ගමයි පන්සලයි ගොඩනැඟුණි. එය මේ රටේ රාජ්ය කරවන සංකල්පය තරමට බලවත් විය. සිරිලක වැව් බැඳි රාජ්යය, දාගැබ් බැඳි දිවයින ලෙස ලෝක ප්රකට විය. නිවන සංකේතවත් කළ දාගැබ ගත සිත නිවන මනස්කාන්ත දර්ශනයක් විය. අතීතයේ රුවන්මැලිසෑය බඳවන විට එහි ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු සඳහා මහජනයාගෙන් කිසිවක් ලබා ගැනීම තහනම් කළ දුටුගැමුණු […]
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Friday, March 18th, 2016
By M.L.Wickramasinghe Many people felt sad and forlorn when they heard that Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero was arrested and remanded. As lay ‘prthagjana’ people it probably is natural to feel helpless and forlorn, and perhaps even angry. The reason for this dejection and anger was the general feeling among many Sri Lankans – even cutting […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් එක්දහස් නවසිය අසූහත වර්ෂයේ ජූලි 29 දිනය ලංකාවට අඳුරු දිනයක් විය. ලංකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව අතර ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කලේ එදිනය. ගිවිසුමේ වගන්ති ප්රකාරව ලංකාවේ හමුදා බැරැක්කවලට සීමා කෙරිණ. පොලිසියේ සිවිල් රාජකාරි පවා ඉන්දියානු සාම සාධක හමුදා අතට පත් විය.සුප්රකට වඩමාරච්ච මෙහෙයුමේදී පහසුවෙන් එල්.ටී.ටීඊ. සංවිධානය පරාජය කල හැකිව තිබියදී ඉන්දිය රජය මැදිහත් වීමෙන් ගුවනින් ආහාර […]
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
Buddhism – The Illustrated Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (September 1903) Published in Rangoon, Burma Disquieting News from Ceylon ( 1903) The British Colonial Govt. reneges on promises made to the Buddhists Lack of Religious Toleration Desecration of the sacred relics of antiquity at Anuradhapura – unworthy of a civilized Government Leadership given by […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
ආචාර්ය ගොඩගම මංගල ස්ථවිර, අස්ගිරි මහා විහාරය, මහනුවර උපුටා ගැන්ම රිවිර මෙම ලිපිය ලියන මම යෝජිත විහාර දේවාලගම් පනත් කෙටුම්පත හා යෝජිත භික්ෂු කතිකාවත් පනත් කෙටුම්පත යෝග්ය ආකාරයට සකස් කිරීම පිළිබඳව වූ රැස්වීම්වලට සහභාගි වූයෙමි. ඒ එකදු අවස්ථාවක හෝ විවාදාපන්නව ඇති භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේට දණ්ඩනය පැනවීම සඳහා වූ කතිකාවත සාකච්ඡාවට බඳුන් නොකළ අතර අප දැඩි සේ කියා […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් බන්ධනාගාර ගතවී සිටියත් උන් වහන්සේ ඇතැම් විට කටයුතු කළේ අක්රමිකතා දුෂණ ආදියට විරුද්ධව බව ගලගම අත්ථදස්සි අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහා නායක හිමියෝ පැවසූහ. ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධතා හා ප්රතිසංධාන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ඒ.එච්.එම්.ෆවුසි මහතා අද (27) පෙරවරුවේ අස්ගිරි මහනාහිමියන් බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගැනීමට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ දී උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව පැවැසුහ. අපේ රටට යම් ව්යසනයක් විපතක් […]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2016
lanka C news සිංහලේ ජාතික බලමුළුව විසින් ඊයේ දින මහනුවර දලඳා මාළිගාව දක්වා ගමන් කල රිය පෙලපාලිය අතරවාරයේදී අවස්ථා කිහිපයකදීම පොලීසිය සමඟ උණුසුම් තත්වයත් ඇති විය. කොළඹ නිදහස් චතුරස්රයෙන් ඇරඹි මෙම පෙලපාලිය සඳහා බෞද්ධ කොඩි මෙන්ම සිංහලේ කොඩියද රැගෙන ගමන් කිරීම නිසා පොලීසිය එම කොඩිය රැගෙන දළඳා මාළිගාවට ඇතුල්වීම අවහිර කරනු ලැබීය. 56,417 Viewers
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් සකස් කිරීම සඳහා රජය මේ අවස්ථාවේ දී විශාල පරිශ්රමයක් යොදමින් සිටී. ජනතාවගේ අදහස් විමසීමද ආරම්භ කර ඇත. ඒ අතර ථේරවාදී භික්ෂු කතිකාවත් පණතක්ද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. 2010 වසරේ පමණ සිට සාකච්ඡා කරමින් පැවති මෙම කතිකාවත් පිළිබඳ නීතිය කඩිමුඩියේ මේ අවස්ථාවේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙනෙනු ලැබුවේ කුමකටද යන්න ප්රශ්ණයක් ලෙසට මතු වී […]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2016
by Senaka Weeraratna “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi We have often heard of tyranny of one group over another e.g. Whites over Blacks, Nazis over Jews, Feudalists over peasants etc. But only a few among us would be prepared to […]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2016
ලසන්ත වික්රමසිංහ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය www.yuthukama.com නව රජය විසින් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය පත් කළේ ඔවුන් පවසන පරිදි විද්යාත්මක ක්රමයකටය. විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට අධිකරණ අමාත්ය ධූරයට අමතරව බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්ය ධූරයත් ලබා දුන් විට මා තුළ පසුබෑමක් හට ගත්තේය. ඒ රජය විසින් බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්යංශය ඉතාම විද්යානුකූල ලෙස ලබා දුන් බැවිනි. එකල එම විද්යාත්මක හේතුව මා හට දැනුනේ, එය […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
by C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 12:00 pm Ven. Wimalarathana Thera stresses that what was expected of the Kathikawath (Registration) Bill was to confer legal validity to the Kathikawath of each Nikaya and Chapter and not to make any recommendations about what those Kathikawath should contain. Speaking to The Island about the […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
Chandre Dharmawardana Canada Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 7:26 pm The Minister for Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media is said to have proposed a Bill to curb a number of human rights enjoyed by one section of the Sri Lankan public who are eligible to vote – namely, the Buddhist monks. For instance, they are to […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 7:31 pm No sooner had a Bill been presented to Parliament to discipline Buddhist monks than it was reported that some female MPs suffered sexual harassment at the hands of their male counterparts within the parliamentary premises. Minister Chandrani Bandara has undertaken to conduct an inquiry into the matter […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
N P Wanasundera Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 7:24 pm Sri Lanka targets itself as a premier Theravada Buddhist country. At one time, the idea of being the foremost Theravada Buddhist country engaged in propagating the religion worldwide was mooted. Maybe this is one of the aims of the Ministry of Buddhist Affairs. Monks come […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
By Harischandra Gunaratna Courtesy The Island January 19, 2016, 7:49 am Advisor to the Sangha Council, Ven. Wepathira Hemaloka Thera, yesterday said there was an international conspiracy to wipe out Buddhism from the country and the Sirisena-Wckremesinghe government had taken on the contract to help achieve that goal by enacting new laws to control the […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
Book Launch: The Good Life An Introduction to Religion and Consciousness by Iromi Dharmawardhane was launched on 9th of January 2016 at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute by Stamford Lake Publications. The book launch attracted a full audience comprising members of the academia and NGO sector as well as students and many other interested individuals, young […]
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