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Making available Buddhist books that are in print to the scholar and the ordinary Buddhist devotee. Printing and publishing ancient, hardly extant Dhamma treatises. Printing and publishing the whole Buddha Jayanthi Tripitaka set which was largely construed as a government venture. Printing and publishing commentaries (Attakatha) in Pali and ...
He reveals it at the end of Prakeernaka Sangraha Katha saying, " Accepting respectfully the order of our lord in his supremacy and ultimate kindness, Bhasaye jothaye Dhammang, Pali: "භාසයේ ජෝතයේ ධම්මං" the bright Dhamma and even if it is absolutely hard to find such rare higherst excellencies (Buddhas), super ...
The Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) is a publishing house with charitable status, whose objective is to disseminate the teachings of Gautama Buddha.It was founded in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 1958 by two Sri Lankan lay Buddhists, A.S. Karunaratna and Richard Abeyasekera, and a European-born Buddhist monk, Nyanaponika Thera.
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A. Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon; Ossie Abeygunasekera; Asoka Abeygunawardana; Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena; M. Walter F. Abeykoon; P. B. Abeykoon; Srilal Abeykoon
Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. [1] [2] He worked in the Great Monastery (Mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajjavāda school and in the lineage of the Sinhalese Mahāvihāra.
Theravada Buddhism is the largest and official religion of Sri Lanka, practiced by 70.2% of the population as of 2012. [2] Practitioners of Sri Lankan Buddhism can be found amongst the majority Sinhalese population as well as among the minority ethnic groups.
Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka.. Sri Lanka is officially a Buddhist country, while Sri Lankans practice a variety of religions.As of the 2012 census, 70.2% of Sri Lankans were Buddhists, 12.6% were Hindus, 9.7% were Muslims (mainly Sunni), 7.4% were Christians (mostly Catholics).