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Barrister Don Baron Jayatilaka, President of the YMBA Colombo, pre 1920.. The YMBA, or Young Men's Buddhist Association, was created in Sri Lanka in 1898. The main founder was C. S. Dissanayake [1] as part of a bid to provide Buddhist institutions as an alternative to YMCA, otherwise known as the Young Men's Christian Association.
Shraddha TV is a non-profit Buddhist television channel based in Sri Lanka. The channel is known for airing religious spiritual content with a primary focus on Buddhism and the teaching of Buddha. The channel is known for airing religious spiritual content with a primary focus on Buddhism and the teaching of Buddha.
The Buddhist is the first Buddhist television channel for Sri Lanka. The Buddhist channel studios are located at Sri Sambodhi Vihara (Temple) that is situated in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [1] [2] It is available on the Sri Lankan Direct to Home satellite television services Dialog TV and Dish TV. The service also operates on PEO TV and cable TV.
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This is a list of schools with a Buddhist background in Sri Lanka. Though most were established as Buddhist schools, since 1962 when they were taken over by the government, the education curriculum is that of any other national school in Sri Lanka. Therefore these secondary schools are not religious schools.
The school was established in 2014 under the guidance of Galkulame Uparathana Thero, Senior Lecturer of Sinhala and Modern Language Studies Department of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. [5] Before 2014, the school was registered as the Aloka Vidyalaya in 1957 by P.B. Ekanayake, which was later demolished in 1997. [6] [7]
Starting with the Dīpavaṃsa in the 4th century, the Theravādins of the Mahāvihāra in Sri Lanka attempted to identify themselves with the original Sthavira sect of India. The Dīpavaṃsa lauds the Theravāda as a "great banyan tree," and dismissively portrays the other early Buddhist schools as thorns (kaṇṭaka). [5]
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