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Dimensions of Buddhist Thought

EDITOR’S PREFACEThe Buddha once said that his Teaching has only one taste, that of liberation. Yet, being a Teaching of Actuality, Buddhism has also...

Buddhist Commission Report – 2009 (Sinhala Version)

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බෞද්ධයින් සදාචාර විරෝධී හා කූට උපක්‍රම මඟින් අන්‍යාගම්වලට හරවා ගැනීම පිළිබඳව පරීක්ෂා කර බලා වාර්තා කිරීම සඳහා පත් කරනු ලැබූ කොමිෂන් සභා...

20 A: A braver, self-confident Supreme Court could have done more...

According to reports the Supreme Court has cleared the 20th Amendment with minor conditions some of which are analysed below. Now the battle must...

Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

By Bertrand Russell The Lecture that is here reproduced was delivered at the Battersea Town Hall on Sunday March 6, 1927, under the auspices of the...

Buddhist Commission Report

Appointed To Inquire And Report On The Conversion Of Buddhists In Sri Lanka to Other Religions by Immoral and Fraudulent Means.

LTTE in the Eyes of the World

Collection of press clippings that focus on the actions of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Ten Places In Colombo And The Origins Of Their Names

By Vinod Moonesinghe As Sri Lankan towns go, Colombo is relatively young—a mere five centuries from when the Portuguese established a fort and expelled the Muslim...

Colombo’s trams

The Colombo Electric Lighting and Tramways Co Ltd was a British company represented in Ceylon by Boustead Brothers. The Tramways were ready for operations by 1899/1900. This company owned and operated the Pettah Power Station at Saunders Place which supplied the 110 volts DC power to propel the trams.

Commentary on Sinhala Kingship ( Vijaya to Kalinga Magha )

1. Vijaya to Mahasena, in which the dominant attribute of kingship was gamani, which is described as a populist and consensual character emerging out of ancient gamas.2....

Dhamma Gems

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