{"id":117537,"date":"2021-08-27T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117537"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:49:34","slug":"mahachulalongkorn-rajavidyalaya-university-mcu-tv-presents-the-very-first-live-telecast-on-esala-perahera-randoli-the-festival-of-sacred-tooth-relic-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/27\/mahachulalongkorn-rajavidyalaya-university-mcu-tv-presents-the-very-first-live-telecast-on-esala-perahera-randoli-the-festival-of-sacred-tooth-relic-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (MCU) TV presents the very first live telecast on Esala Perahera Randoli, the festival of Sacred Tooth Relic in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka<\/strong> <strong>Bangkok, Thailand<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in\nBangkok, Thailand&nbsp;in collaboration with Sri Dalada Maligawa, Sri Lanka\nTourism&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (MCU) in\nThailand&nbsp;presented the very first live telecast of Sri Lanka&#8217;s&nbsp;most\nhistoric and colourful cultural event Esala Perahera Randoli&nbsp;in Sri\nLanka&nbsp;on&nbsp;MCU TV Channel&nbsp;in Thai Language on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> August\n2021.&nbsp; The Esala Perahera Randoli was also live streamed in Thai Language\nin social&nbsp;media platforms of&nbsp;Mahachulalongkorn\nRajavidyalaya&nbsp;University in addition to the MCU TV for Thai Buddhist\ndevotees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theravada Buddhism was introduced to Thailand from Sri\nLanka and&nbsp;known as &#8216;Lankawamsa&#8217; in Thailand and subsequently during the\ncolonial period, when the&nbsp;foundation of Sri Lanka\u2019s Buddhist monkhood\neroded, Most Venerable Pra Upali Thero from Ayutthaya city in Thailand, then\ncalled &#8216;Siam&#8217;&nbsp;re-establish the higher ordination tradition, which is known\nas &#8216;Siam&nbsp;Nikaya&#8217; in Sri Lanka. Today, Kandy in Sri Lanka and Ayuttaya in\nThailand have been declared as sister cities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Esala Perahera Randoli&nbsp;was also live streamed in\nKhmer and Thai languages in Cambodia and&nbsp;\nLaos respectively in their social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the pandemic of&nbsp;COVID-19 where many travel\nrestrictions are in place, the live telecast from&nbsp;Kandy, Sri Dalada\nMaligawa, invoked blessings and brought back the spirit of rich religious and\ncultural heritage to the Buddhist devotees in the East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka<\/strong> <strong>Bangkok, <\/strong><br><strong>Thailand<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok, Thailand The Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok, Thailand&nbsp;in collaboration with Sri Dalada Maligawa, Sri Lanka Tourism&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (MCU) in Thailand&nbsp;presented the very first live telecast of Sri Lanka&#8217;s&nbsp;most historic and colourful cultural event Esala Perahera Randoli&nbsp;in Sri Lanka&nbsp;on&nbsp;MCU TV Channel&nbsp;in Thai Language [&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-117537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117537","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=117537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}