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WHY A PEACE NGO MIGHT NOT EMPLOY THE BUDDHA. By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 5:23 pm. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 7 September 2014. The earliest such episode is contained in the Mahavagga of the Pali Vinaya Pitaka (Vin. I, 24, 25. P32-35, Horner IV. J Ph Vogel: 1926. I can hear you intoning explosively, ‘surely this concept of the Buddha having in tow, a hit-man with a thunderbolt has no place in the Theravadin tradition, which is more Gandhian? P108-136, full text. The Buddha t...
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Posts Tagged as "Chronicles of Sri Lanka". THE PRACTICE OF HONOUR KILLING IN AN EARLY BUDDHIST SOCIETY. Read more ». By ratnawalli - October 14, 2014 at 11:30 am. HOW THE BUDDHA COEXISTED WITH WAR. Read more ». By ratnawalli - September 22, 2014 at 9:45 am. WHY A PEACE NGO MIGHT NOT EMPLOY THE BUDDHA. Read more ». By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 5:23 pm. Basic Social Etiquette for the Buddha. Read more ». By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 4:37 pm. Generations of men lady. Ain’t just one man.
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Sailing south and meeting the north. By ratnawalli - July 13, 2014 at 2:37 pm. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 13 July 2014. The pride of the Sakyas. C 460-380 BC according to the latest consensus [i]. Was no empiricist. He lived in a wondrous world populated by myriad fantastic beings of the Indo-Aryan myth pool. A passage in the Chullavagga. An early text in the Pali. With the whole lot so constituted as to stretch from one to five hundred leagues .-( p32, Jean Philippe Vogel:1926.
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Basic Social Etiquette for the Buddha. By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 4:37 pm. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 24 August 2014. 8211; ( p XXIV, N.A. Jayawickrama;1962. Holmes, if we were to introduce this lady to the sources of Mahavamsa. Through carefully selected paragraphs like the above, do you think it would make any difference? I doubt it Watson’. As the reader can probably guess Holmes and I were still on the subject of Which Buddha? I will use Sihala atthakatha tradition.
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Posts Tagged as "Tisaranee Gunasekera". THE PRACTICE OF HONOUR KILLING IN AN EARLY BUDDHIST SOCIETY. Read more ». By ratnawalli - October 14, 2014 at 11:30 am. HOW THE BUDDHA COEXISTED WITH WAR. Read more ». By ratnawalli - September 22, 2014 at 9:45 am. WHY A PEACE NGO MIGHT NOT EMPLOY THE BUDDHA. Read more ». By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 5:23 pm. Basic Social Etiquette for the Buddha. Read more ». By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 4:37 pm. Generations of men lady. Ain’t just one man. Are you...
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So much head. So little time. My joy’s turning sour. My mind is in disequilibrium, as most things in Sri Lanka are right now. I was ecstatically happy two days ago, but now things seem to be turning sour. The president, encouragingly, has made a statement, Thursday,. Saying, “Ensuring that the nation’s outpouring of joy at the defeat of terrorism, leaves no room for anyone’s feelings to be hurt in any manner is the greatest tribute we can pay to our Motherland.”. Aiyo May moda yakku ratama kanawa. Finall...
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THE PRACTICE OF HONOUR KILLING IN AN EARLY BUDDHIST SOCIETY. By ratnawalli - October 14, 2014 at 11:30 am. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 12 October 2014. If you told me that Buddhism causes dilemmas to rulers who are required by tradition to uphold social norms that enshrine killing such as war, hunting, judicial homicide and honour killing, I will snigger. As I snigger, I’ll be thinking of the earliest Buddhist societies such as the Vajjis. Betraying Buddhism and Undermining Sri Lanka.
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WHY A PEACE NGO MIGHT NOT EMPLOY THE BUDDHA. By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 5:23 pm. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 7 September 2014. The earliest such episode is contained in the Mahavagga of the Pali Vinaya Pitaka (Vin. I, 24, 25. P32-35, Horner IV. Chronicles of Sri Lanka. Read more ». Basic Social Etiquette for the Buddha. By ratnawalli - September 8, 2014 at 4:37 pm. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 24 August 2014. 8211; ( p XXIV, N.A. Jayawickrama;1962. I ask...
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Nagas come and pitch their tents in Naga-Dipa of Lanka. By ratnawalli - June 30, 2014 at 7:59 am. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 29 June 2014. What if a part of Sri Lanka in the centuries before Christ had been named after a personage, a creature or a deity from the Celtic myth pool? After a species of creatures from the Indo-Aryan myth pool. Nearly fifty percent out of the total were Prakrit names. Of these, some appear raw in the pure Prakrit form, some in partly Tamilized form (v...
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Lord Buddha comes to Nagadipa. By ratnawalli - August 6, 2014 at 10:05 am. Published in my Column in The Nation. On Sunday, 27 July 2014. A picturesque Sinhalese belief, almost certainly sired by the Hela-havula. Movement has it that the term ‘Sihala’. Has no relation to lion killing as that 10. Century AD authority, Dampiya Atuva Gatapadaya. But is derived from the ‘Siv Hela’. Or the quartet of Hela. It has no validity as a serious theory. A cursory examination into the antecedents of Yaksas. Called Chi...
