{"id":153620,"date":"2025-12-11T17:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153620"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:20:17","slug":"107th-birth-anniversary-of-asoka-weeraratna-a-commemorative-talk-by-dr-thilanka-k-dahanayake-on-shashthreeya-sangrahaya-program-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/11\/107th-birth-anniversary-of-asoka-weeraratna-a-commemorative-talk-by-dr-thilanka-k-dahanayake-on-shashthreeya-sangrahaya-program-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"107th Birth Anniversary of Asoka Weeraratna &#8211; A Commemorative Talk by Dr. Thilanka K. Dahanayake on &#8220;Shashthreeya Sangrahaya Program on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SLBC | Swadeshiya Sevaya | Samwarshana | 2024-12-13\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIYFSa39x68?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\n\n\n<p>Today i.e., December 12, 2025 marks the 1O7th Birth Anniversary of Asoka Weeraratna (founder of the German Dharmaduta Society, Berlin Vihara in Germany and the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya) later known as Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanisanthi Thero. Asoka Weeraratna was born on December&nbsp;12, 1918. He died on July 2, 1999 at the age of 80 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion of his 106th Birth Anniversary in 2024 a Commemorative Talk was delivered&nbsp; by Dr Thilanka K.&nbsp; Dahanayake ( grandson of former Prime Minister W. Dahanayake), currently lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, on the &#8220;Shashthreeya Sangrahaya Program . This Radio Program was moderated by Dr. Nalaka Jayasena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details on Asoka Weeraratna&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>see&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not become discouraged and give up, and do not rest satisfied with partial achievements&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Asoka Weeraratna&#8217;s<\/em> favourite Saying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asokaweeraratna.org\/home.htm\">https:\/\/asokaweeraratna.org\/home.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ASOKA WEERARATNA AND MAHINDA COLLEGE \u2013 NOSTALGIC MEMORIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>by W. &nbsp;&nbsp;P A N D I T A R A T N E<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DQ6HKqxWkg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/07\/asoka-weeraratna-and-mahinda-college-nostalgic-memories-2\/\">ASOKA WEERARATNA AND MAHINDA COLLEGE \u2013 NOSTALGIC MEMORIES<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;ASOKA WEERARATNA AND MAHINDA COLLEGE \u2013 NOSTALGIC MEMORIES&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/07\/asoka-weeraratna-and-mahinda-college-nostalgic-memories-2\/embed\/#?secret=UdNq0z2UjU#?secret=DQ6HKqxWkg\" data-secret=\"DQ6HKqxWkg\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Maha Thero delivers sermon at Asoka Weeraratna Birth Centenary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trekmentor.org\/watch\/yt\/8Nd8s6uC-l0\">https:\/\/www.trekmentor.org\/watch\/yt\/8Nd8s6uC-l0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna Today i.e., December 12, 2025 marks the 1O7th Birth Anniversary of Asoka Weeraratna (founder of the German Dharmaduta Society, Berlin Vihara in Germany and the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya) later known as Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanisanthi Thero. Asoka Weeraratna was born on December&nbsp;12, 1918. He died on July 2, 1999 at the age of 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153620","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\/153620","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=153620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153621,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153620\/revisions\/153621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}