{"id":77015,"date":"2018-05-01T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77015"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T22:01:29","slug":"sinhala-avuruddha-celebrations-in-malaysia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/01\/sinhala-avuruddha-celebrations-in-malaysia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SINHALA\u00a0AVURUDDHA\u00a0CELEBRATIONS IN MALAYSIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Premaseri<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Sinhala Avuruddha was observed\u00a0on a modest scale on April 14, 2018\u00a0in the two Sri Lankan tradition Buddhist temples in Kuala Lumpur, namely the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV)\u00a0in Brickfields and the Sri Lanka Buddhist Temple, Sentul which was founded in 1894 and 1917 respectively. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">The day commenced with the Avuruddha Puja at both temples at 7.30am. Members of the Malaysian Sinhala community, Sri Lankan expatriates and also members of the Sri Lankan High Commission in Malaysia attended the Puja at the Buddhist Maha Vihara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Avurudu2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Avurudu2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Avurudu2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">After the Hil Dana, all present helped themselves to the Avurudddha delicacies. Avuruddha Open Houses were also held by members of the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">On April 21, 2018 the Sasana Abhiwurdhi Wardhana Society which operates BMV\u00a0held an Avuruddha dinner on a modest scale because its main hall, the Dewan Asoka\u00a0was undergoing renovations. The event started with the lighting of the traditional oil lamp by the Presidents of the Sasana Abhiwurdhi Wardhana Society (SAWS), the Siri Jayanthi Association and the Malaysian Sinhalese Association and Patron and Advisor\u00a0of\u00a0the SAWS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Avurudu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Avurudu.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Avurudu-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Members of the community attended the event where a good spread of dishes were available for dinner and treated to a good medley of Sinhala songs. Children joined in some games as well. Students who excelled in their public examinations were\u00a0also given cash awards. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premaseri \u00a0Sinhala Avuruddha was observed\u00a0on a modest scale on April 14, 2018\u00a0in the two Sri Lankan tradition Buddhist temples in Kuala Lumpur, namely the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV)\u00a0in Brickfields and the Sri Lanka Buddhist Temple, Sentul which was founded in 1894 and 1917 respectively. \u00a0The day commenced with the Avuruddha Puja at both temples at [&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-77015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77015","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=77015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}