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Sri Lankan Delegation Meets His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Emphasizing Cultural Exchange
A high-profile delegation from Sri Lanka recently met with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala to foster stronger ties through spiritual and cultural exchange. The visit was organized under the auspices of the Semkay Ling: Pali…
The Visuddhimagga – Virtue (Sìla)
56. As to the words through which, etc., the meaning is: by reason of which, because of which non-restraint of the eye faculty, if he, if that person, left the eye faculty unguarded, remained with the eye door unclosed by the door-panel of…
Piyawadana
Even three times a day
to offer three hundred cooking pots of food
does not match a portion of the merit
acquired in one instant of love.
-Nagarjuna-
The Visuddhimagga – Virtue (Sìla)
45. “ resort: there is resort and improper resort. Herein, what is improper resort? Here someone has prostitutes as resort, or he has widows, old maids, eunuchs, bhikkhunìs, or taverns as resort; or he dwells associated with kings, kings’…
Piyawadana
If one’s vision is capable of expelling the darkness,
he would not need a lamp.
Likewise, the soul itself being blissful,
there is no need of external object for bliss.
-Mahavira-
The Visuddhimagga – Virtue (Sìla)
40. 15. In the second tetrad there are training precepts announced for bhikkhus to keep irrespective of what is announced for bhikkhunìs. This is the virtue of bhikkhus. There are training precepts announced for bhikkhunìs to keep…
Piyawadana
The most important principle of environment is
that you are not the only element.
-Mahavira-
Piyawadana
The store consciousness is clear and undefinable.
Like a great river,
it is always changing.
Neither pleasant nor unpleasant,
when one becomes fully realized,
it ceases to exist.
-Vasubandhu-
The Vissuddhimagga – Virtue (Sìla)
32. 8. In the seventh dyad all virtue subject to cankers is mundane; that not subject to cankers is supramundane. Herein, the mundane brings about improvement in future becoming and is a prerequisite for the escape from becoming, according…
Historic Enshrining of Buddha Relics at Pali and Sanskrit Cultural Exchange Centre
A grand enshrining ceremony of the Sacred Relics of the Buddha was held on 1 November at the world’s first and only Pali and Sanskrit Cultural Exchange Centre in Devamitta Pedesa, Heiyanthuduwa.
The event began with a majestic procession…