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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD) is a chronic and disabling psychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of mania/hypomania and depression (Van Dijk et al., 2013). In BPAD psychosocial functioning and quality of life often remain impaired between mood episodes (Ball et al., 2006; Becerra et al., 2013). Bipolar Disorder presents in 1-4% of […]
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Monday, December 2nd, 2019
PRESS RELEASE TRANSLATION The brand new Chuda Manikkya (Pinnacle) of Swarnamali Maha Seya was caused to be specially designed, crafted and made and placed on the November 25th 2019 along with the unveiling of the newly Gold Plated Koth Wahanse (Dome) on the 26 the November, through the guidance and employing the full and sole […]
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Thursday, October 24th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් මුලතිව් – නායාරු – ගුරුකන්ද රජමහා විහාරස්ථානයේ වත්මන් තත්ත්වය නිරීක්ෂණය සඳහා අද මහා සංඝරත්නය එහි නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවක නිරත වුණා. මෙම ගැටලුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් අද පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී අදහස් දැක්වූ පුජ්ය බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමියන් සඳහන් කළේ බෙදුම්වාදය පදනම් කර ගනිමින් සිය දේශපාලන බලය ලබාගැනීමට ක්රියාත්මක වන ඇතැම් දේශපාලනඥයින් සහ මෙම ආණ්ඩුව ඉවත් කිරීමෙන් […]
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
Professor N. A.de S. Amaratunga As Buddha had seen by experience that life is Anithya, Dukka, Anathma” (impermanent, sorrow, no-self) and as he did not want to believe what he could not perceive with his senses, he had to fight against the two extreme metaphysical views that were present in his time; the theory of […]
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Saturday, August 24th, 2019
Don de Silva The Editor Adaderana Sri Lanka Dear Editor, Thank you very much for your daily TV news bulletin, through your Youtube Channel. They are useful in obtaining news and information about Sri Lanka. However, I was very concerned with your English News Bulletin on 16.08. 2019. The news clip, which begins from 2.30, refers […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
සමන්තී වීරසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ”මහා නාහිමි අධිකරණය හමුවට ගෙන යනතුරු මේ රටේ නායකයෝ නිදිද…?” ”අස්ගිරි මහ නාහිමියෝ රැක ගැනුමට පෙළ ගැසෙමු” ”බෞද්ධකම නොදත් මහපුටු හොබවන්නෝ එළවා දමමු” මෙවන් වැකි රැසක් මහනුවර නගරය සහ සෙසු ආසන්න ප්රදේශ පුරා ප්රදර්ශනය වෙමින් පවතින්නේය. ශ්යාමෝපාලි මහා නිකායේ අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයේ මහානායක අතිපූජ්ය වරකාගොඩ ක්දාණරතන ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ, මුස්ලිම් ජනතාවට එරෙහිව ප්රකාශයක් කළේ […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Tissa Jananayake [1] කලලයට විඥ්ඥාණය බැස ගන්නේ කෙසේද? [2] දරුවන්ට දෙමව්පියන්ගේ ගතිගුණ නොපිහටන්නේ ඇයි? [3] සර්වසම නිවුන් දරුවන්ගේ දෛවය දෙයාකාර වන්නේ ඇයි?
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Monday, June 17th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia London, June 18 (www.trueactivist.com): Most of the time, when children act out by kicking and screaming expletives, it is because they do not understand what they are going through, and cannot find a better way to release their feelings. When a child acts out, know that it is most likely because they are […]
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Monday, June 17th, 2019
Sri Dhammaratana Buddhist Training Centre, I am a Theravada Buddhist monk who lives and works among the poor and needy villagers of my area in Sri Lanka. I was ordained on November 5th. 1975. I received the higher ordination called ‘Upasampada’ in July 1981 and was admitted into the Amarapura Niyake Sasanodaya Maha Sangha Sabha […]
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Sunday, June 16th, 2019
By Gamini Seneviratne Courtesy The Island Dr. P. G. Punchihewa’s essay on Sinhala Buddhagama comes at the end of his account of Arahant Mahinda’s legacy to the people of this country, – an island named Sinhale or Lanka. It was from here that the Buddha dhamma, as explained by the Arahant and his associate bhikkus, […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Journeyman Pictures From Genghis to God (2002): Instigated by missionaries and propagated by a Christian TV channel, Christianity is a growing religion in Mongolia where the traditional faith is Buddhism. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… In the heart of the Mongolian grasslands, a nomadic tribeswoman gives thanks for the preservation of her flock. While she […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Shridhar Prabhu Advocate, Bengaluru, India (Speech delivered by Mr. Shridhar Prabhu, Advocate, at the Ariyapala Hall, All Ceylon Buddhist Congress on December 29, 2017) Venerable Dhamma Teachers, Respected Dr. (Mrs.) Anula and Dr. Ajita Wijesundere and all other Office bearers of the National Joint Committee, Respected Mr. Jagath Sumathipala, Hon’ble Vice President of World Fellowship […]
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
By Senaka Weeraratna A group of pro-active Indian and Sri Lankan Buddhists drawn from leading Buddhist organizations had a series of discussions on the sidelines of the World Buddhist Assembly gathering in Bangkok, Thailand (May 21 – 25, 2012) and decided to establish an ‘Indo – Sri Lanka Buddhist Network’ to pursue a number of […]
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Sunday, May 19th, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න සභාපති සමනල යෞවන සමාජය නාවලකන්ද ශ්රී බුද්ධ වර්ෂ 2563 ක් වූ වෙසක් පුර පසළොස්වක පොහෝ දිනය නිමිති කොට ගනිමින් කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත් නාවලකන්ද ගම්මානයේ ගම්වාසීන්ගේ දායකත්වයෙන් නාවලකන්ද සමනල යෞවන සමාජය හා රන්තරු ළමා සමාජයෙහි මූලිකත්වයෙන් වෙසක් පිංකම් මාලාවක් සංවිධානය කරමින් බුදුන් වහන්සේගේ තෙමගුල උත්සවත්ශ්රීයෙන් සැමරීමට පියවර ගෙන තිබුණි. ඉදිවෙමින් […]
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Saturday, May 18th, 2019
Sunil Wimalawansa (Professor of Medicine) Please find the following two URLs that leads to three connected articles: 1st – Hearing and Defective Hearing;” 2nd – Listening is an Art and a Skill that Should be Developed;” 3rd – Mindful listening – A Key to Success;” https://www.facebook.com/sunil.jayalath.9 or via, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindful-listening-key-success-wimalawansa-md-phd-dsc-executive-mba/?published=t Planning to upload the last one in […]
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය මාවතගම පේමානන්ද හිමි ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය ඊ. ඒ. වික්රමසිංහ පීඨාධිපති (භාෂා අධ්යයන පීඨය) ශ්රී ලංකා බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්වවිද්යාලය බුදුදහම තම තම නැණ පමණින් නන් අයුරින් දෙසන, ලියන පිරිස් මේ රටේ බිහි වූයේ අද ඊයේ නො වේ. පිරිසිදු ථෙරවාද බුදුදහම අපිරිසිදු කරමින් ලියූ සහ දෙසූ එම පිරිස් එය තම බඩ වඩා ගැනීමේ මාර්ගය ලෙස […]
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
adhimanasika **********බුදු දහම බාහිරින් තර්ක කර විනාශ කල නොහැකි නිසා මේ වන විට ශාසනයට ඇතුළු වී ශාසනය තුල ඉදිමින්ම ධර්මය විකෘති කරමින්බුදු දහම විනාශ කිරීම ආරම්භ වී ඇත. එසේ කරන මාර පුත්රයන්ගේ ප්රධානම අවිය වන්නේ ඔබගේ ධර්ම දැනුමක් නැති කම පාලි දැනුමක් නැති කම හා භාවනා දියුණුවක් නැති කමයිසිංහල බෞද්ධයනිඅද සිටම පාලි ඉගෙනගනිමටත් ත්රිපිටකය පරිශීලනය කිරීමටත් […]
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Monday, April 8th, 2019
By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Relations between Tibet and the rest of China to back to ancient times. Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism had influenced the beliefs, political systems and art forms of several Chinese dynasties. Karl Debreczeny, author of Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism (The University of Washington Press) says that from […]
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Sunday, April 7th, 2019
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Geneva An interactive scholarly discussion on the significance of the Tripitaka as a world heritage took place at the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) headquarters in Geneva, continuing the week-long celebrations-‘Tripitakabivandana‘. The event was also intended to raise awareness among States that follow the Buddhist traditions, […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය මාවතගම පේමානන්ද හිමි, ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය ඊ. ඒ. වික්රමසිංහ ශ්රී ලංකා බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්වවිද්යාලය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නිවන් අවබෝධ කර ගැනීමට උපකාරී වන එකම දහම බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ විසින් දේශනා කොට වදාළ ශ්රී සද්ධර්මය බව සැබැවි. එය වසර දෙදහස් හයසියයකටත් අධික කාලයක් ලොව පුරා පැවති සහ දැනටත් පවතින අනාගතයට ද වලංගු වන ඒකායන ධර්ම […]
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Thursday, March 28th, 2019
BY MAJORIE CHIEW Courtesy Star2 Bhante Saranapala has a bigger dream. He said: One day, I hope there will be United Kindful Nations (something like a United Nations).” Photo: The Star/ Chan Tak KongPEOPLEHomePeople Four years ago, a Facebook post of a group of Canadian police officers sitting in a lotus position, alongside a Buddhist […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC The Thripitakabhivandana Week in the US that continued from 16th – 24th March 2019 under the patronage of four Sri Lankan Buddhist Temples in Washington and Maryland came to a close with the completion of religious events at Nisala Arana Buddhist Monastery and Mahamewnawa Meditation Center in Maryland on […]
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Thursday, March 21st, 2019
Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC In keeping with President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to declare the Thripitakabhivandana Week from 16th – 23rd March 2019 to mark the declaration of the Theravada Thripitaka as a national and world heritage, the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington DC, under the patronage of four Buddhist temples in Washington DC and […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Courtesy Buddhistdoor On the 9th of March, Fo Guang Shan Jin Guangming Temple held a lucky lecture on the eight-pass fasting and human Buddhism, and invited the Master of the Faculty of the Faculty of Buddhism and the Ministry of Education to teach “quantum mechanics and emptiness.” Despite the continuous rain and cold weather, the scene […]
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. The Island newspaper has published several accounts of the Anatta doctrine by a number of writers, including Dr. Carlo Fonseka, an ex-Marxist free thinker who has an excellent grasp of Buddhism, as well as Dr. Upul Wijayawardena, an ex-cardiac surgeon with a deep critical mind. The learned Bhanthe Dhammika from Australia […]
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Monday, March 11th, 2019
By Panduka Senanayake A milk white dome with a long conical object pointing skyward from its apex sits partly hidden from view amidst trees and buildings in a dip beside a junction of two main arterial roads, the Athlon and Drakeford Drives at Tuggeranong in the Australian `Bush Capital’ of Canberra. Unique to Canberra it […]
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
බලංගොඩ නළුවෙල ශ්රී ප්රියදර්ශනාරාම මහ විහාරයේ අභිනවයෙන් ඉදිකළ චෛත්යයේ තැන්පත් කිරිම සදහා දඹදිව බුද්ධගයාවෙන් සහ ඉසිපතන මිගදායෙන් පූජාවස්තුන් මෙම මස 10වෙනි දින ශ්රී ලංකාවට වැඩම කෙරේ. බෝසතාණන් වහන්සේ බුද්ධත්වයට පත් බුද්ධගයාවේ වජ්රාසනය මත පිහිටි බුද්ධ ප්රතිමාවට පැළදවු රන් සළුවක් හා පූජාවස්තු මෙන්ම බුදුරදුන් ප්රථම ධර්ම දේශනාව පැවැත්වු ඉසිපතන මිගදායෙන් ලබාගත් පුජා වස්තුන් 10 වෙනි දින […]
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Public Seminar on the Kandyan Convention of 1815 March 09, 2019 ( Saturday) Venue: University of Peradeniya, Arts Theatre, Galaha Road, Peradeniya Tentative Programme 8.15 am – Registration 8.45 am – Inauguration Introduction and objectives: Dr. C.M. Madduma Bandara, Emeritus Professor, University of Peradeniya Speakers & Panelists Dr. Palitha Kohona, Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative […]
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Lotus News Feature By Natcha Lim BANGKOK (IDN) – Buddhist scholars attending the 1st Makhapuja International Conference on ‘The Future of Buddhism in Asia’ have warned that consumerist trends within the monastic order and aggressive proselytism by Islamic and Christian groups are a threat to the future of Buddhism in Asia. Governments in the region lack adequate […]
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Monday, March 4th, 2019
By Kalinga Seneviratne BODHGAYA (IDN) – In recent years the Indian government has been promoting the concept of a ‘Buddhist Tourism Circuit’ (BTC) with Bodhgaya – the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment under a Bo-Tree – as its centrepiece. Yet, with less than 1 percent of India’s population Buddhist today, lack of Buddhist communities around […]
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