{"id":74297,"date":"2018-02-03T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74297"},"modified":"2018-02-03T02:41:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T09:41:33","slug":"bellanwila-wimalarathana-thero-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/03\/bellanwila-wimalarathana-thero-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thero passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/13\/manushi-silva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manushi Silva\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Professor Venerable Dr Bellanwila Wimalaratana Nayake Thero, Chancellor of the Sri Jayawardanepura University passed awaya short while ago (3), at a Private Hospital in Colombo, following an accident while he was preparing to feed a tusker within the premises of the Bellanwila Rajamaha Viharaya.<\/p>\n<p>Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera was reportedly injured and hospitalized following the accident last morning (2).<\/p>\n<p>The Buddhist monk sustained injuries to his ribs following the injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Incumbent of the Bellanwila Rajamaha Viharaya was admitted to the Kalubowila Teaching Hospital and was later transferred to a Private Hospital in Colombo for further treatments.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the Thera had taken a fall and was injured while attempting to feed the tusker \u2018Miyan Kumara\u2019 at the temple premises this morning, a ritual which he is said carry out almost every morning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera injured and hospitalised\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ib9KscROmgE?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Manushi Silva\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Professor Venerable Dr Bellanwila Wimalaratana Nayake Thero, Chancellor of the Sri Jayawardanepura University passed awaya short while ago (3), at a Private Hospital in Colombo, following an accident while he was preparing to feed a tusker within the premises of the Bellanwila Rajamaha Viharaya. Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera was reportedly injured and hospitalized [&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-74297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74297","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=74297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}