{"id":111976,"date":"2021-02-23T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T00:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111976"},"modified":"2021-02-23T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T00:07:27","slug":"growing-ties-between-sri-lanka-and-germany-through-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/23\/growing-ties-between-sri-lanka-and-germany-through-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Ties between Sri Lanka and Germany through Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>1) German Dharmaduta\nSociety &#8211; 50th Anniversary (1952 &#8211; 2002) Souvenir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please find the\nattachment&nbsp;with download link below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/we.tl\/t-0ze3Lt748r\">https:\/\/we.tl\/t-0ze3Lt748r<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2)\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Prospects for the Growth of Buddhism in Germany<\/strong>  <strong>and other Western Countries&#8221;, by Agganyani (Christa Bentenrieder)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Keynote\naddress was delivered by Agganyani, Secretary General, Deutsche Buddhistische\nUnion at the public meeting held on September 21, 2002&nbsp;at Savsiripaye, Colombo to commemorate the 50th\nAnniversary of the founding of the German Dharmaduta Society (1952 -2002).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; We German Buddhists will never forget what you have done\nfor us. We all appreciate your contribution to the spread of Buddhism in\nGermany, and to the Berlin Buddhist Vihara, and we thank you out of the deepest\ngratitude of our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May all of you attain Nibbana soon as a reward for your generosity\nand promotion of Theravada Buddhism in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let Sri Lankans and Germans follow the path of the Buddha\ntogether, hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May we attain Nibbana together and\nsoon!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Agganyani&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddhanet.net\/growth.htm\">http:\/\/www.buddhanet.net\/growth.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3)&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>When\nthe World boycotted the Germans, Sri Lanka opened its doors to the Germans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DnNaDOwQg9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/21\/when-the-world-boycotted-the-germans-sri-lanka-opened-its-doors-to-the-germans\/\">When the World boycotted the Germans, Sri Lanka opened its doors to the Germans<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;When the World boycotted the Germans, Sri Lanka opened its doors to the Germans&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/21\/when-the-world-boycotted-the-germans-sri-lanka-opened-its-doors-to-the-germans\/embed\/#?secret=Wmr8o295p8#?secret=DnNaDOwQg9\" data-secret=\"DnNaDOwQg9\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna 1) German Dharmaduta Society &#8211; 50th Anniversary (1952 &#8211; 2002) Souvenir Please find the attachment&nbsp;with download link below https:\/\/we.tl\/t-0ze3Lt748r 2)\u00a0&#8220;The Prospects for the Growth of Buddhism in Germany and other Western Countries&#8221;, by Agganyani (Christa Bentenrieder) The Keynote address was delivered by Agganyani, Secretary General, Deutsche Buddhistische Union at the public meeting held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111976","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=111976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}