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2. Thūpavaṃsa - Wikipedia

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   The Thūpavaṃsa ("Chronicle of the Stupa") is a Sri Lankan historical chronicle and religious text recorded in the Pali language.Its composition is attributed to a Buddhist monk known as Vācissara, the putative author of several Pali and Sinhala commentaries and handbooks.

3. Saddharmarathnakaraya - Wikipedia

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   The Saddharmarathnakaraya, Pali: Saddhammarathnákara and Sinhala: සද්ධර්මරත්නාකරය is a historical Sinhala Buddhist [1] religious text ...

4. Mahāvaṃsa - Wikipedia

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   Ponnambalam's 1939 speech in Nawalapitiya, attacking the claim that Sri Lanka is a Sinhalese, Buddhist nation was seen as an act against the notion of creating a Sinhalese-Buddhist only nation. The Sinhala majority responded with a mob riot, which engulfed Nawalapitiya, Passara, Maskeliya, and even in Tamil Jaffna. [21]: 148 [22]

5. Walpola Rahula Thero - Wikipedia

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   Walpola Rahula Thero (9 May 1907–18 September 1997) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer. In 1964, he became the Professor of History and Religions at Northwestern University, thus becoming the first bhikkhu to hold a professorial chair in the Western world. [1]

6. Category:Sri Lankan Buddhist texts - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Help. Pages in category "Sri Lankan Buddhist texts" The following 10 pages are in ...

7. Atthakatha - Wikipedia

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   The major commentaries were based on earlier ones, now lost, in Prakrit and Sinhala, which were written down at the same time as the Canon, in the last century BCE. Some material in the commentaries is found in canonical texts of other schools of Buddhism, suggesting an early common source. According to K.R. Norman:

8. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero - Wikipedia

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   Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero (Sinhala: අග්ග මහා පණ්ඩිත බලංගොඩ ආනන්ද මෛත්‍රෙය මහා නා හිමිපාණන් වහන්සේ) (23 August 1896 — 18 July 1998) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who was one of the most distinguished scholars and expositors of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century.

9. Bodhivaṃsa - Wikipedia

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   The Mahabodhivamsa is composed primarily in prose, but includes verses at the end of each chapter, many of them originating from the Mahavamsa. [3] Like the Mahavamsa, the Mahabodhivamsa begins by recounting the recognition of Gautama Buddha by Dipankara Buddha and then proceeds to recount the life of Gautama Buddha and an account of the first three Buddhist Councils. [3]