{"id":75023,"date":"2018-02-22T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75023"},"modified":"2018-02-22T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:15:00","slug":"most-ven-katukurunde-nyanananda-%e0%b6%9a%e0%b6%a7%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%9a-%e0%b6%a5%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%b1%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/22\/most-ven-katukurunde-nyanananda-%e0%b6%9a%e0%b6%a7%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%9a-%e0%b6%a5%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%b1%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Ven. Katukurunde Nyanananda (\u0d9a\u0da7\u0dd4\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dda \u0da5\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dcf\u0db1\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf)\u00a0Maha Thero"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Passing away of a great monk !<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Most Ven. Katukurunde Nyanananda Maha Thero passed away on the early hours of 22 February 2018 at the National Hospital of Colombo. He was\u00a0an exemplary monk and a scholar. He was one of the few remaining students of late Matara Sri Gnanarama Maha Thero of Mitirigala Nissaranavanaya.<\/p>\n<p>Most Ven. K. Nyanananda Maha Thero wrote a large number of books which were very useful to the serious practitioners of Vipassana meditation. The Maha Thero&#8217;s Dhamma series titled &#8216;Nivane Niveema&#8217; and &#8216;Pahan Kanuwa Desana&#8217; are quite popular both among the monastery monks and the meditating public.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral will be conducted at Kirillwala Estate, Dammulla, Karandana. (Tel: 0777127454) on Friday, 23 February 2018.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing away of a great monk ! Most Ven. Katukurunde Nyanananda Maha Thero passed away on the early hours of 22 February 2018 at the National Hospital of Colombo. He was\u00a0an exemplary monk and a scholar. He was one of the few remaining students of late Matara Sri Gnanarama Maha Thero of Mitirigala Nissaranavanaya. Most [&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-75023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023","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=75023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}