තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  භාහිරය (ලෝකය) සම්මතයට අයත්ය. එයට ගහකොල සතාසිව්පාවා මෙන්ම විශ්වය හා ස්වාභාවදහමද අයත්වේ. සුලඟ, ආලෝකය, උනුසුම, පීඩනය ආදි ස්වාභාවික සංසිද්ධීන් සියල්ලම සම්මතයේ ඇති භාහිර ලෝකයට අයත්ය. භාහිරය අසත්‍යයක් බොරැවක්බව සමහර දේශකයන් පවසනවිට මේ ස්වාභාව දහමේ සංසිද්ධීන් සියල්ලම අසත්‍යබව ඉන් කියවේ. මෙය සිදුවිය නොහැක්කකි. රහතන්වහන්සේ පිරිනිවන් මඤ්චකයට එළැබෙන තෙක්ම ස්වාභාවදහමේ ක්‍රියාවලියට ලක්වන සම්මත ලෝකයේ වැඩවසයි. […]

By Dr. Justice Chandradasa Nanayakkara Courtesy The Island Greed is a burning desire, unquenchable thirst, a craving and lust. People who are greedy want the objects of their desire to provide them with lasting satisfaction so they feel fulfilled, whole, and complete. Greed creates an inner hunger so that that they always seem to be […]

Senaka Weeraratna The command ‘ Kill and Eat animals ‘ found and endorsed in all Abrahamic religions is a throwback to the primitive hunter-gatherer mindset that prevailed at the commencement of the life of the Homo Sapiens species. Basically, it means you live off other species. But this conduct is morally indefensible for a higher […]

Rajan Zed In a remarkable interfaith gesture, a coalition of Christian-Hindu-Buddhist faith leaders is seeking apology from singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for trivializing karma”, a serious and ancient religious doctrine of Hindus and Buddhists, calling it highly inappropriate. Senior Episcopal priest in Connecticut Father Thomas W. Blake, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, renowned Buddhist priest Rev. Matthew […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  සත්‍යයක් නොවන භාහිර ලෝකයක් පිළිබදව නොයෙකුත් දේශකයන් වහන්සේලා තම දේශනාවල සදහන් කරයි. භාහිර ලෝකයෙන් මිදීම යනු භාහිර ලෝකය අසත්‍යයබව (බොරැබව) අවබෝධ කරගැනීම යයි මේ දේශකයින් පවසයි. මෙසේ කරනා දේශනාවම අසත්‍යයකි. අපෙන් ස්වායත්ත (independent) භාහිර ලෝකයක් පවතී. ඵය රෑප හැඩතල වලින් පමනක් සමන්විත ඵකකි. ස්වාභාව ධර්මයේ සංසිද්ධීන් මත පදනම්වන භාහිර ලෝකය මිනිසා ප්‍රධාන ජීවීන් […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Minister Vidura Wickramanayaka stated that he intends to propose a mechanism to have the Nayaka Theros informed in the case of an allegation related to monks, through the police, coordinated by the Ministry, and to implement the law against them as well as to take disciplinary action.  The Minister also said that it […]

By Krishan Dutta Courtsy indepthnews.net Photo: Opening session of the WFB Conference. Credit: A conference participant. Manipulations at ‘World Fellowship of Buddhists’ Conference Buddhism Is Losing Its Voice in Asia By Krishan Dutta BANGKOK (IDN) — The theme of this year’s 30th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was Buddhism in the […]

Courtesy Rediff India has seen a great revival of Buddhism in the country under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, said a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk as the International Buddhist Confederation celebrates Abhidhamma Day on Sunday. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba at the Shilanyas ceremony of the India International […]

Courtesy ANI “We see great revival of Buddhism in India under Modi govt”: International Buddhist ConfederationRead more At:https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/we-see-great-revival-of-buddhism-in-india-under-modi-govt-international-buddhist-confederation20221008235750/

Bodhisattva Thailand is home to the second largest Buddhist population of more than 63 million, only after China which has the largest Buddhist population in the world. The country is dotted with more than 41000 Buddhist temples and monasteries which house around 350,000 monks. Buddhism has shaped every aspect of the social and cultural life […]

කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අංශයේ මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් විසිනි 1873 අගෝස්තු මස 26 හා 28 දෙදින තුළ පාණදුරේදී ඉමහත් ආශ්චර්යාත්මක පරිවර්තනයක් සිදු විය. ඒ අන් කිිසිවක් නොව අධිරාජ්‍ය විරෝධී සහ දේශීයත්වය නියෝජනය කළ බෞද්ධයන් හා සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය නියෝජනය කරමින් යටත්විජිත පාලනයේ අනුග්‍රහය ලද ක්‍රිස්තියානි මිෂනාරින් අතර පැවැති මහා වාදයයි. මේ වසරේ දී අප සමරන්නේ […]

බර්ලින් බෞද්ධ මහා විහාරස්ථානය 2022/05/15 දින අසිරිමත් තෙමගුල සිහිපත් කරමින් වෙසක් පොහෝ දින බර්ලින් බෞද්ධ මහා විහාරස්ථානයේ සිදු කරන ලද ශීල භාවනා වැඩසටහන පිණ්ඩපාත චාරිකාව සහ දන්සල යන ආදිය විශාල ශ්‍රී ලාංකික පිරිසකගේ දායකත්වය ඇතිව සිදු කරන ලදි. එම පිංකම් හා සහභාගී වීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් මෙන්ම ජර්මන් ජාතිකයන් තායි, බුරුම, බංග්ලාදේශ, චීන , ආජන්ටිනා ඇතුළුව […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Sri Lanka has directed the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) to temporarily close the stock market for a period of five business days commencing from the 18th of April. In a statement, the SEC director, Tushara Jayaratne said the Board of Directors of the CSE, by way […]

BY CAROLINE DELBERT Courtesy Popular Mechanics It may sound crazy, but it’s based on science. KATERYNA KOVARZHGETTY IMAGES A molecular geneticist at the University of Surrey says the human “mind” is electromagnetic. Mind-body dualism is one of philosophy’s oldest questions, boosted this time by science. Is the answer as simple as our brains forming an electromagnetic “cloud” during […]

Daisy Hernandez Courtesy msn.com For the very first time, scientists have recorded the brain waves of a dying person. The recordings indicate that there could be some truth to the statement my life flashed before my eyes” when someone has a near-death experience. The findings, which have been published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, are not comprehensive because the patient […]

Palitha Mapatuna Chapter II of the Constitution of Sri Lanka requires the state to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana; this would imply protecting and fostering the assets of the Buddha Sasana. The Principal Asset of the Sasana: The Authentic Teaching The principal asset of the Buddha Sasana would be the authentic teaching of the Buddha, introduced to Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy ANI Ling Rinpoche, reincarnation of the teacher of Dalai Lama reaches Sri Lanka Read more At: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/ling-rinpoche-reincarnation-of-the-teacher-of-dalai-lama-reaches-sri-lanka20220127210819/

Courtesy Ceylon Today Thich Nhat Hanh, an influential Vietnamese Buddhist monk, has died at the age of 95. His Zen teaching organisation, Plum Village, said the monk “passed away peacefully” at the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam on Saturday. A prolific author and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, is often referred to as the […]

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 […]