{"id":142554,"date":"2024-06-20T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142554"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:43:00","slug":"arrival-of-arahant-mahinda-at-mihintale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/20\/arrival-of-arahant-mahinda-at-mihintale\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival of Arahant Mahinda at Mihintale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>An inspiration to take a Buddhist Mission to Germany from Sri Lanka and establish the Buddha Sasana in Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"371\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/arahath-MahindaR1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/arahath-MahindaR1.jpg 371w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/arahath-MahindaR1-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This blurb was distributed by the Lanka Dhammaduta Society (later known as the German Dharmaduta Society) at public meetings held<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>all over the country in 1956 and 1957 to publicise the oncoming First Buddhist Mission to Germany (1957) from Sri Lanka and raise funds to support the Mission.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The poignant message in the blurb is that just as much as Arahant Mahinda introduced Buddhism to Sri Lanka beginning at Mihintale via his encounter with King Devanampiyatissa 2300 years ago likewise the German Dharmaduta Society will take a Buddhist Mission and establish the Buddha Sasana in Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna An inspiration to take a Buddhist Mission to Germany from Sri Lanka and establish the Buddha Sasana in Germany This blurb was distributed by the Lanka Dhammaduta Society (later known as the German Dharmaduta Society) at public meetings held all over the country in 1956 and 1957 to publicise the oncoming First Buddhist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142554","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\/142554","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=142554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}