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"Most eligible recipient": Sri Lankan monk on presenting sacred Buddha relics to Dalai Lama
a Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka. The Lankan Buddhist monk had earlier said that the rare relic presented to the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet was discovered during the British reign in India in the ...
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First Sri Lankan Buddhist monk in 105 years joins Oxford for MPhil in Buddhist Studies
Wadigala Samitharathana Thero has become the first Sri Lankan Buddhist monk in 105 years to study at Britain’s ... and Mahavihara Maha Pirivena, Kandy, in Sri Lanka. In 2013, he was awarded the ...
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Unveils Stupa in Ganthiriyagama, Anuradhapura
The student monk Ven. Koswatte Palitha Thera of Kekirawa area initiated to build a Stupa in his village to celebrate the ...
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A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk enters Oxford University after 105 years
The last Sri Lankan Buddhist monk to study at Oxford was Venerable Suriyagoda Sumangala, who became the first monk to receive a scholarship and enter the university in 1919. He enrolled as a non ...
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New documentary explores Sri Lanka’s Buddhist supremacy and minority communities
While Sri Lanka’s constitution ensures that all citizens have a right ... it opened up spaces that would not have been accessible otherwise. I asked a Buddhist monk directly what he thought about ...
Sri Lanka reduces school days to 181 for 2025
The Sri Lankan Ministry of Education on Monday announced a cut of school days for 2025 from 210 days to 181 The revised schedule will apply to govern ...
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The monk
When they hear that the renowned Danish doctor and HIV scientist Jan Erik Hansen has burned all boats to live as a Buddhist monk on a mountain in Sri Lanka, the two Danish documentary makers Mira ...