{"id":65930,"date":"2017-05-08T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T04:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65930"},"modified":"2017-05-08T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:33:26","slug":"royal-asiatic-society-vesak-lectures-to-be-held-on-monday-15th-may-2017-at-4-00-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/08\/royal-asiatic-society-vesak-lectures-to-be-held-on-monday-15th-may-2017-at-4-00-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Asiatic Society &#8211; Vesak Lectures to be held on Monday 15th May 2017 at 4.00 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dear Sir\/ Madam Please give publicity to the following event in you newspaper. Thank you<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Vesak Lectures<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">organised by the<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">on<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Monday 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0May 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Lecture 1 (4.00-4.45 pm)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">by<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ven. Prof. Khammai Dhammasami; DPhil (Oxford), PhD\u00a0(MCU)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Professor, International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University (ITBMU), Myanmar<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">on<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation in the West:\u00a0An overview on mutual benefit between traditional and scientific approach&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Lecture 2 (4.45 &#8211; 5.30 pm)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">by<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Prof. Lewis Lancaster; Emeritus Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">on \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>The Altus of Maritime Buddhism: A different lens for the study of culture and religion in Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">at\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00a0<strong>Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>ALL ARE WELCOME<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sir\/ Madam Please give publicity to the following event in you newspaper. Thank you Vesak Lectures organised by the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka on Monday 15th\u00a0May 2017 Lecture 1 (4.00-4.45 pm) by Ven. Prof. Khammai Dhammasami; DPhil (Oxford), PhD\u00a0(MCU) Professor, International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University (ITBMU), Myanmar on &#8220;Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930","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=65930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}