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Dr. Keerthi Jayasekera Among the Buddhists in Sri Lanka the tendency is to ask the last question first. They all want to know what Nirvana is, the supreme state of mind, which the Buddha achieved over 2500 years ago in India. The Buddhist texts show the names of a large number of early disciples of […]

Prof. Sukomal Barua, The Samadhi Buddha Statue, Anuradhapura Today is the Sacred Buddha Purnima, the full-moon day of Vesak blessed by the Birth, Enlightenment and Passing way of the Buddha. The day in very significant and important to the Buddhist world. It brings peace, integrity brotherhood, non-hatred, universal love, compassion and full humanism of the […]

Buddhism and socio-ethical progress Ven. Dr. Beligalle Dhammajoti, Dept. of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Ruhuna. Upasika Sujatha offering alms to the Buddha after He attained Enlightenment. Some scholars with a little knowledge of Buddhism are of the opinion that there is no socio-economic and political philosophy of Buddhism. A well-known scholar, Max Weber, […]

I. C. Boange Samma Ditthi which is translated as Right View, occurs at the very beginning of the Noble Eightfold Path, thus, the importance of its cultivation for the realisation of the path and its fruits. The Venerable Sariputta explains right view in the Saccavibhanga Sutta (Majjima Nikaya 141) as knowledge of suffering (Dukkha); knowledge […]

Happy is the arising of the Buddhas. Happy is the teaching of the Dhamma. Happy is the Unity of the Sangha. As these words from the Dhammapada show, the Birth of a Buddha is a rare and joyous occasion, for He brings light to a world in darkness. Today, Buddhists the world over celebrate the […]

Bhikkhu Prof. Dhammavihari There are two basic premises in Buddhism based on which I discuss on the subject of animal rights. At the very outset, it is good to remind ourselves that more than two and half millennia ago, the Buddha had a vision of the universe, not as one created by any one at […]