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Buddhism in a Nutshell
On the full moon day of May, in the year 623 B.C. there was born in the district of Nepal an Indian Sakya Prince...
The Buddha’s Explanation of The Universe
INTRODUCTI0N
THE Pali Texts on this subject are numerous, the most important of them being :-
Dhammasangani PakaranaVibhanga PakaranaDhätukathä PakaranaPuggala Pannatti PakaranaKathavatthu Pakar•aruYamaka PakaranaPutthäna Pakatana
These texts,...
The Ways of the Peaceful
Foreword
"The Ways of the peaceful" is one of the many possible renderings of the term "Samana-Dhamma", an expression that summarizes the whole lifestyle of...
පෙරලියක නිර්මාතෘ මහාචාර්ය ඇෆ්. ආර්. ජයසූරිය
ප්රශ්නයක් තිබේ යැයි කීම මන්ද බුද්ධිකයෙකුට පවා කළ හැකිය. ප්රාඥයන් අවශ්ය වන්නේ ඊට විසඳුම් දීම සඳහා වේ. විශේෂඥයෝ මැසිවිලි නොනගති. තුමූම වැඩට බසිති. ප්රාචීන...
Accomplices of underworld figure ‘Gagana’ arrested
The Police Special Task Force (STF) has arrested three individuals who are suspected to be accomplices of underworld figure ‘Gagana’, who is already in...
Sri Lanka’s government makes MCC review final report public
Sri Lanka’s government has published the final report by the Expert’s Committee appointed to review the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact (MCC).
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...
Special operation to suppress the underworld
- Senior DIG in charge of the Western Province Deshabandu Tennakoon
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Discovering Ceylon
This is an impressionistic study of Ceylon in the yesteryears. My mployment in the Survey Department from 1910 to 1949, and other commitments thereafter, afforded me the opportunity of acquainting myself with the hinterlands and back-blocks Within Ceylon's sea-girt bounds seldom ordinarily visited. Behind this, there lies a flood of pent up memories of curious and interesting ruins left by a remarkable civilization which has passed away and many types of rustic folk uncluttered by alien ideas or the artificiality of the urban and town dweller.
Sri Lanka: Preferential numbers of all candidates gazetted; (Gazette attached)
The elections Commission of Sri Lanka has gazetted preferential numbers of all candidates contesting the upcoming general elections. Most probably the election will be held in August this year, the exact date will be announced this week. The 500 page plus gazette is here as a PDF document:PG_2020PE_E