Vesak Poya Day

Buddhists worldwide commemorate the Buddha's Birth, enlightenment, and Mahaparinirvana on the Vesak Poya Day in such a pleasing way. Not only Sri Lankan Buddhists celebrate the Vesak festival in such grandeur. Countries like India,…

Serivanija Jataka

The Bodhisatta was once a traveling pot and pan salesman. He and another salesman came to a new city at the same time and they each took half of it to do their business. The other salesman called at the home of a destitute family, just a…

Vannupatha Jataka

The Bodhisatta was once a merchant who led large oxcart caravans to trade with distant lands. On one trip, he had to pass through a desert so extreme that travel was only possible in the cool of the night and all necessities needed to be…

Apannaka Jataka

The Bodhisatta was once a merchant who led large oxcart caravans to trade with distant lands. As he prepared to leave on a long, dangerous journey through a vast desert, he heard that another merchant, a young and stupid man, was going to…

Rohanta-Miga Jataka

The Bodhisatta was once a golden deer, king of a herd of eighty thousand deer living in the Himalayas. He, along with his younger brother and sister, cared for his blind elderly parents. One time a hunter saw the Bodhisatta and later, on…

Bhikkha-Parampara Jataka

The Bodhisatta was once an ascetic who lived in the Himalayas. The king was righteous and wise and always sought to improve himself, and he asked people to tell him his faults so he could correct them. But nobody, from his closest advisors…

LET’S WRITE DHAMMA LIKE THIS

“Don't think of this attempt as an effort to get the hard-earned authorship easily.” This sentence was in the prologue of a book I read at the age of 12. From that sentence, I realized that it is not an easy task to be a writer. That book…
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