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Sri Punyarathana Dhamma School. Sri Punyarathana Dhamma School at Choola Bodhi Viharaya is a free education Buddhist religion center (Sunday School) for children under the age of 18 years. It is situated in the village Haburugala in the Southern part of Sri Lanka. The purpose of the school is to guide students from Haburugala and nearby ...
One Theravada commentary on the Subhāsita Sutta (Sn 3.3) contains a story about sixty monks who attained arahantship in Sri Lanka after hearing a slave woman sing a song about birth, old age, and death. [13] According to the Theravada commentator Buddhaghosa, adapting songs to the Dhamma is proper. His Vinaya Commentary also mentions certain ...
Buddhist texts. Illustrated Sinhalese covers and palm-leaf pages, depicting the events between the Bodhisattva 's renunciation and the request by Brahmā Sahampati that he teach the Dharma after the Buddha's awakening. Illustrated Lotus Sūtra from Korea; circa 1340, accordion-format book; gold and silver on indigo-dyed mulberry paper.
Pirivena. A pirivena (plural: piriven) is a monastic college for the education of monks in Sri Lanka. In ancient time, they were also centers of secondary and higher education for lay people. As of 2018, 753 piriven have been founded and maintained by the Ministry of Education. [1] Young monks undergo training at these piriven prior to their ...
He was ordained a Buddhist monk on 27 July 1999 and given his present name Bibiladeniye Mahanama. He is a student of Wahantare Siddhartha thero at Sri Shailathalaramaya - Panduwasnuwara. [22] His initial Pirivena education was at the Paramadhamma Cheitiya Pirivena in Ratmalana since 1999, and continued his higher studies at the Sri Pandukabhya ...
Buddhist schools in Sri Lanka. 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.
Ven. Ñāṇananda was born in 1940 to a Sinhala Buddhist family in Galle District in Sri Lanka.He received his school education from Mahinda College, Galle. In 1962 he graduated from the University of Peradeniya specializing in Pali Studies, and served as an assistant lecturer in Pali at the same university for a brief period of time.
Most of the musician in Sri Lanka have come out with their own creations The temple paintings and carvings used birds, elephants, wild animals, flowers and trees. The colors were made of nature. The traditional 18 dances display the dancing of birds and animals. Mayura Wannama – The dance of the peacock.