Gautama Sakyamuni was the historically first “Buddha,” an epithet meaning “Awakened One.” He is pictured in the center of the triptych, seated on a brightly colored octagonal lotus dais -- elevated on ...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, inaugurated the newly established project "Ananda Academy for Performing Arts (AAPA)" of Social Services and ...

In fact, the other analytical presentation at this event was by Venerable Uduhawara Ananda, Head of the Department of Pali and Buddhist studies ... Perhaps, Upali resonated better for Bhante Dhammika ...

The day commemorates two pivotal events in Buddhism: the spontaneous gathering of 1,250 disciples to hear the Buddha’s teachings and the delivery of the Ovada Patimokkha, a key doctrine of moral ...

The sacred relics of Lord Buddha and his two disciples, Shariputra and Mahamoglan, were honoured in a grand procession in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, on February 3. Thousands of Buddhist monks from ...

This writing is relevant to the upcoming Oration. It was Ven. Ananda Metteyya who inspired a group of English-speaking Ceylonese Buddhists to initiate the Dissemination of the Buddha’s Teachings in ...

This was the practice adopted by his disciples too. Hence, what the Buddha has said about governing a state is an exception to the substance of the main dhamma he has preached. Rev. Ananda says that ...

The distinguished Sri Lankan in question, a former student of Ananda College and a Buddhist of Sinhalese ethnic origin ... there are a great many donkeys associated with it.” The third story concerns ...