Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero (Sinhala: දොඩන්දුවේ ශ්රි පියරත්න තිස්ස මහ නායක ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ; 12 December 1826 – 20 May 1907), also known as...
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Ashoka, in 236 BC, brought the tree cutting to Sri Lanka during the reign of Sinhalese King Devanampiya Tissa.[1] At more than 2,300 years old, it is the...
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Buddhist school in Sri Lanka, 'Jinalabdhi Vishodaka' was founded in 1869 and its founder was Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero In 1880 Henry Steel...
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S. Mahinda (redirect from S. Mahinda Thero)
Mahinda thero arrived in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at a young age and was ordained as a Buddhist monk by Ven. Dodanduwa Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero. Having...
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designed and constructed in Sri Lanka are the largest brick structures known to the pre-modern world. After Rev. Mahinda thero introduced Buddhism during...
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Mahanayaka (redirect from Mahanayake)
of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya Most Ven. Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero - Former Mahanayaka Thero of the Amarapura Nikaya (circa 1860s), and...
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Sanghamitta (category Sri Lankan Buddhists)
The two siblings later went to Sri Lanka to spread the teachings of Buddha at the request of King Devanampiya Tissa (250 BC – 210 BC) who was a contemporary...
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Devanampiya Tissa who was the king of Sri Lanka at that period met this group and accepted Buddhism and declared Buddhism as the state religion of Sri Lanka...
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Adam's Peak (redirect from Sri Pada (Sri Lanka))
359 ft) tall conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka. It is well known for the Sri Pada (Śrī Pāda ; Sinhala: ශ්රී පාද, 'sacred footprint'), a...
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Mahinda (Buddhist monk) (redirect from Arahath Mahinda Thero)
Buddhism. Sri Lankan Buddhism Ashoka Theravada Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura History of Sri Lanka "Ashoka's son took Buddhism outside India". The Times...
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