{"id":100028,"date":"2020-03-16T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100028"},"modified":"2020-03-16T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:31:05","slug":"buddhist-centre-opened-in-uganda-the-first-on-the-african-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/16\/buddhist-centre-opened-in-uganda-the-first-on-the-african-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist centre opened in Uganda, the first on the African continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mahinda Gunasekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Please on the LINK below to access the video about the ordination of two young  Africans at the Buddhist Centre in Uganda.\u00a0 The Burmese and Thai Buddhist communities to have participated in the event.<br><br> The chief monk of the Centre is Ven. Buddharakkita Thera whom we have met on two occasions on visits to the Bhavana Society established by the Most Venerable Henepola Gunaratana Mahathera.\u00a0 Ven. Buddharakkita had first ordained as a monk under the guidance of the Late Ven. U. Seelananda Thera (a pupil of Ven. Mahasi  Sayadaw) who was in charge of the Burmese Buddhist Monastery in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ven. Buddharakkita was very much in demand by African American communities in the USA when he was residing at the Bhavana Society in West Virginia.<br><br> The Ugandan Buddhist Centre is the first of its kind established by native African people. Ven. Buddharakkita&#8217;s mother to has ordained as a Buddhist Nun residing at the Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buddhist centre opened in Uganda, the first on the African continent\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uShTM01UaLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Gunasekera\u00a0 Please on the LINK below to access the video about the ordination of two young Africans at the Buddhist Centre in Uganda.\u00a0 The Burmese and Thai Buddhist communities to have participated in the event. The chief monk of the Centre is Ven. Buddharakkita Thera whom we have met on two occasions on visits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}