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    Mahinda (Sinhala: මිහිඳු මහරහතන් වහන්සේ) (285 BCE – 205 BCE) was an Indian Buddhist monk depicted in Buddhist sources as bringing Buddhism to Sri Lanka...
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    Venerable Sikkim Mahinda Thero (Sinhala: සිකිම් මහින්ද හිමි), commonly known as S. Mahinda Thero (Sinhala: එස්‌. මහින්ද හිමි), was a Buddhist monk from the state...
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  • Mahinda (Buddhist monk) (3rd Century BCE), Buddhist monk who introduced the Pali Canon to Sri Lanka S. Mahinda (1901-1951), Theravada Buddhist monk born...
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  • Mahinda College is a Buddhist boys' school in Galle, Sri Lanka. The school was established on 1 March 1892 by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by...
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  • Mahindra & Mahindra Mahindra Group Kotak Mahindra Bank, an Indian bank Mahinda (Buddhist monk), the son of Emperor Ashoka and proponent of Buddha's teachings...
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    Buddhist art Buddhist art is visual art produced in the context of Buddhism. It includes depictions of Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas and bodhisattvas...
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  • Ashoka sends a Buddhist missionary led by his son who was Mahinda Thero (Buddhist monk) to Sri Lanka (then Lanka) Mahinda (Buddhist monk). 250 BC: Rise...
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  • Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and...
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    into the island in the third century BCE after the Third Buddhist council by the elder Mahinda and by the elder nun Sanghamitta. According to the Sri Lankan...
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    believed by Sri Lankans to be the site of a meeting between the Buddhist monk Mahinda and King Devanampiyatissa which inaugurated the presence of Buddhism...
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