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| | Dharmapala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Dharmapalas can be Buddhas, Bodhisattvas or Dharmarajas (Damchen in Tibetan). | | | Dharmapalas are essentially Hindu gods or Devas, generally believed to be introduced into Tibetan Buddhism by Padmasambhava in the 8th century. | | | Some of the known Dharmapalas are: Mahakala, mainly an emanation of the Hindu god Shiva, some forms of Mahakala are emanations of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara; Kalarupa, an emanation of the Buddha of Wisdom, (Manjushri) and Kalindewi or Palden Lhamo. |
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| | Anagarika Dharmapala - definition of Anagarika Dharmapala in Encyclopedia |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala (1864 - 1933) was born David Hewavitarne in Colombo, Sri Lanka. | | | Dharmapala was the first anagarika - that is, a celibate, full-time worker for Buddhism - in modern times. | | | In 1893 Dharmapala was invited to attend the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago as a representative of "Southern Buddhism" - which was the term applied at that time to the Theravada. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Anagarika_Dharmapala
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| | Sinhala Buddhism ! - WNSO Chautari |
| | Dutugemunu - Dharmapala Buddhism was a Sinhala Buddhism and it appealed to the Sinhala Buddhists. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala and others considered themselves to be Sinhala Buddhists. | | | Even if it was Anagarika Dharmapala who coined the words Sinhala Buddhism and Sinhala Buddhist, the concepts have been there for ages. |
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http://chautari.wnso.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1380
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| | ANAGARIKA DHAMMAPALA |
| | The London Buddhist Vihara was opened in 1926. The London Buddhist Vihara, the oldest Buddhist temple in the west is managed by the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala, whose foremost thoughts were the love for his country and religion, had a truly international outlook as well. | | | The bungalow known as "Obeyesekara Walauwa" was used by the Anagarika, and part of the land subsequently was given to house the homeless and the slum dwellers. |
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http://www.geocities.com/anagarikadhammapala
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| | News at Tipitaka Network |
| | FOREMOST among the Buddhists to be modernised was Anagarika Dharmapala. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala was one of the greatest men Sri Lanka has produced. | | | Dharmapala was sought, for, he was invited to meetings of scholars such as the Congress of Faiths in Chicago; there were so many willing to help the Maha Bodhi Society with funds and books. |
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http://www.tipitaka.net/community/news.php?page=050919d
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| | Tribute to Anagarika Dharmapala |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala, in his prepared address at the conference, convinced the audience how it is important to follow the noble eight-fold path delivered by the Buddha, according to Buddhist Philosophy, Swamy, Vivekananda of India presented the Hindu Philophy at the conference. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala concentrated in spreading Buddha Dhamma in the world. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala received invitations from the audience to make more speeches on Buddhism at various places in the US and he delightfully accepted each and every invitation. |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~lkawgw/anadha.html
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| | Online edition of Daily News - News |
| | In Dharmapala's religious propagation activities he received the financial support of his affluent grandfather Lansage Don Andiris Perera Dharmagunawardena whose munificence as a buddhist leader of the time is recorded by Col. Olcott in the journal 'The Buddhist' Vol. | | | Dharmapala supported the Buddhist Theosophical Society and the Buddhist Defence Committee Olcott initiated as an active member of both. | | | He said when the observance and practice of Buddhism was at an ebb in the country due to the pressure of the colonial government at the time Dharmapala strove hard almost at the risk of his life to revive Buddhism here. |
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/09/29/new21.html
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| | Article - Anagarika Dharmapala - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved |
| | The 141st birth anniversary fell on September 17 of Bhikkhu Sri Deavamitta Dharmapala, known in the annals of Buddhist history as Anagarika Dharmapala. | | | The mother of Anagarika Dharmapala, Mallika Hewavitharana's wish was to see her son rekindle the lamp of the Dharma in a darkened land. | | | His life and character had been a source of wonder and inspiration to Buddhists throughout the world for the last 141 years as he was an indefatigable servant of the Buddha. |
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http://www.newsfinder.org/buddhism_more.php?id=1183_0_5_0_M
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| | Anagarika Dharmapala's principles remain strong and perfectly valid for all time and they represent a set of core beliefs that reflects the aspirations of Buddhists all over the world, he added. | | | "Anagarika Dharmapala is distinguished by two great features the revival of Buddhism on the Indian sub-continent, and the introduction of Buddhism to the West. | | | The Deputy High Commissioner referring to the Anagarika's young days, his education, associations with Monks and Buddhist leaders at the time said establishing Maha Bodhi Society of India and restoration of Buddhist sites in India are two grate achievements of the Anagarika's life. |
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/09/22/news28.htm
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| | Dharmapala’s untiring efforts to popularize Buddhist activities in Europe, USA and the Far East attracted many Americans and Europeans to Calcutta, and thus a global Buddhist revivalist movement was born. | | | Carus, Soyen Shaku, a Zen monk and Dharmapala shared the view that Buddhism: “was more fitted than Christianity to heal the breach that had opened between science and religion, since it did not depend on miracles and faith". | | | Dharmapala took this up and so helped reintroduce Buddhism to India, its land of birth. |
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http://www.beyondthenet.net/medit/edit_ana.htm
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| | LankaWeb News |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala (1864 - 1933) towers over any other figure in the past century for his pioneering contributions towards the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and India, and the spread of Buddhism in the West. | | | Martin Baumann, a noted German Scholar on Buddhism in the West, refers to Anagarika Dharmapala as ' the first global Buddhist missionary and the Maha Bodhi Society the first inter- or transnational Buddhist organization '. | | | One of Sri Lanka's great claims to international recognition has been the leading role it has played in the Buddhist world. |
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http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items01/050901-2.html
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| | TamilNet: 26.04.98 Doyen of Sinhala nationalism passes away |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala was responsible for transforming Buddhism, which was, till the Buddhist revival in the late 19th century, an other worldly, monastic religion, into what it is today in Sri Lanka - a faith to which Buddhists can relate while they pursue their worldly and materialistic lives. | | | Gamani Jayasuriya married a niece of Anagarika Dharmapala, who, arguably, could be called the patron saint of Sinhala-Buddhism in Sri Lanka. | | | Anagarika was also instrumental in using Buddhism as a vehicle to attack British imperialism and the Western and Christian value systems. |
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http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&rid=98042604
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| | The Buddhist Channel News - Asia 'Dharmapala's contribution transcended national boundaries' |
| | Angagarika Dharmapala's contribution in different ways and means for the uplift of Buddhism after 'Ashoka the Great' is another chapter in the history of modern Buddhism. | | | Nakandala, referring to the Anagarika's young days in Sri Lanka, said, he was initially inspired by the Buddhist revival movement which was led by Senior Buddhist monks, prominent social workers and national minded philanthropists. | | | The culmination of the Buddhist revival movement was the famous debate led by Ven. |
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http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=1,1730,0,0,1,0
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| | Writings by Sangharakshita Anagarika Dharmapala's Achievement |
| | Thirdly, Dharmapala sought to focus on the renaissance of Buddhism in India, and particularly on the legally complicated but morally simple question of the Maha Bodhi Temple at Buddhgaya, the attention of the entire Buddhist world. | | | Fourthly, Dharmapala's interests and activities were not limited to the Buddhist countries of Asia and to India but overspread the whole earth. | | | Dharmapala's advent and example mark the beginning of a new tendency, not indeed to minimize in any way the role of the Sangha, but rather to encourage an increased participation in active Buddhist work by the laity. |
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http://www.sangharakshita.org/e-achievement.html
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| | Book:Arya Dharma of Sakya Muni Gautama Buddha - Hindupedia |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala, a noble son of Sri Lanka who was the leading light of the Buddhist revival in India in recent times has written several books and pamphlets in addition to editing the oldest Buddhist journal "The Maha Bodhi" the official organ of the Maha Bodhi Society of India from 1892 onwards. | | | The Anagarika Dharmapala founded the Maha Bodhi Society of India in 1891 to safeguard the Buddhagaya temple for the Buddhists of the world and to spread the message of Love and Compassion and the noble Dhamma of the Lord Buddha in India and the world. | | | On Buddhagaya the holiest of shrines of the Buddhists, the heart of the Anagarika Dharmapala has grieved. |
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http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~sr352/index.php?title=Book:Arya_Dharma_of_Sakya_Muni_Gautama_Buddha
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| | Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business |
| | Dharmapala proudly claims to be a descendent of a Sinhala paramparava which has an unbroken Buddhist lineage for two thousand two hundred years in the very first paragraph of the autobiography. | | | The reason was that the British Government had forcibly closed all Buddhist schools since the seat of education in the town and the village was the Pansala. | | | Coercive conversions, forced evangelism, closure of Buddhist Temple schools, denial of the rightful place of the Bhikkhus are some of the wicked and villainous deeds of the British who preyed on the poverty of the people like vultures. |
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http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2002/11/17/fea14.html
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| | Mahinda Chinthanaya |
| | However, Anagarika Dharmapala was attacked by the Olcott Buddhists under the sponsorship of the British colonialism. | | | However, they forget that Anagarika Dharmapala was a leader of the Sinhalas who led a struggle against the cultural component of British colonialism, in spite of writings by Fanon, one of their recent gurus, on fighting by the so-called third world against colonialism. | | | It has to be mentioned that the children of fifty six need no Fanon to analyse western Christian colonialism, which at present is maintained mainly through the western Christian knowledge (knowledge created in the Judaic Christian culture) that is part of cultural colonialism. |
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http://www.sinhale.com/mahinda_chinthanaya.htm
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| | Institutions |
| | Founded In 1891 By Anagarika Dharmapala To Regain To Buddhists The Places Connected With The Enlightenment Of The Buddha, Sacred To Buddhists And To Propagate The Dhamma. |
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http://www.metta.lk/temples/institutions
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| | Current activities of the 17th Karmapa - the Karmapa website |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala, born in Sri Lanka in 1864, devoted his life to supporting Buddhism in India and around the world. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala was also internationally renowned for representing Buddhist causes, traveling to countries such as in Japan, America, England, Honolulu, France and Italy. | | | Although the timing of His Holiness' arrival has to be fixed after all the proper arrangements are made, His Holiness has stated that he believes that he will be in Rumtek within two years. |
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http://www.kagyuoffice.org/karmapa.currentactivities2002.html
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| | Mahavamsa |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala, (1864-1931) a Buddhist monk played a vital role in the upsurge of Buddhist nationalism and Aryan supremacy in the beginning of the 20th century. | | | Abb.: Anagarika Dharmapala, Chicago, Worl Parliament of Religions, 1893 | | | Despite all such evidences to prove that Tamils are not strangers in the country it has become the habit of the Sinhalese ploiticians and the Buddhist clergy to emphasise Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism. |
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http://www.payer.de/mahavamsa/chronik002.htm
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| | The Killing of Buddha - InfoLanka Forum |
| | What has happened is that economic Buddhism, cultural Buddhism and social Buddhism as originally conceived by Dharmapala and Walpola to modernise Sri Lanka has become a political Buddhism with horrific consequences for managing a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-linguistic society. | | | Dharmapala viewed Buddhism as the only route to a cultural renaissance as also to economic regeneration in a land that had been under colonial domination for almost five centuries. | | | Next only to Dharmapala is Walpola Rahula whose Bhiksuvage Urumaya (The Heritage of the Bhikku) is considered as having the greatest influence on recent Sri Lankan Buddhism. |
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http://www.infolanka.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000787.html
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| | Writings by Sangharakshita The Anniversaries of Anagarika Dharmapala and Mrs. Mary E. Foster |
| | But Dharmapala was ill and Olcott left him in hospital in Kyoto with rheumatic fever, to which hospital, therefore, there came a ceaseless flow of Buddhists of all professions, who had heard of the unflagging zeal of this young Sinhalese on behalf of the revival of their religion. | | | He evolved his own convictions at an early age, not uninfluenced by the pious Buddhist upbringing given him by his parents with whom he performed the puja daily while at school he was taught the Christian religion and took part in the routine Christian observances. | | | As he toured he observed his own people had not only strayed from their hereditary faith but also from their own national customs and were adopting the language, dress and habits of the West. |
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| | Theravadan Locations of BuddhistLinks.org |
| | London Buddhist Vihara London,England The London Buddhist Vihara is a leading centre for Theravada Buddhism. | | | Formed in 1926 by Anagarika Dharmapala, the Vihara was the first Buddhist monastery to be established outside the continent of Asia. | | | The Vihara moved to Chiswick during 1964 when the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust of Sri Lanka purchased the freehold property at Heathfield Gardens. |
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http://buddhistlinks.org/LocationsTheravadan.htm
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| | Sri Lanka Army - Anagarika Dharmapala’s vehicle restored |
| | Anagarika Dharmapala who rose against imperial attempts to undermine Buddhism and its values under colonial Ceylon spearheaded a campaign of Buddhist re-awakening across the country. | | | The Sri Lanka Army has once again proved that its soldiers are adept not only in warfare but also in mechanical and technical expertise that could be tapped for matters of phenomenally important religious and cultural matters. | | | 138th Death Anniversary of Buddhist revivalist, Anagarika Dharmapala commemorated |
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http://www.army.lk/News_Reports/2002/septe/161.htm
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| | Anagarika Dharmapala |
| | In 1893 Anagarika Dharmapala opened his remarks at the World's Parliament of Religions at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago with a dhamma talk on the four noble truths. | | | The firebrand Dharmapala would continue to agitate for Sri Lankan independence and religious freedom throughout his lifetime. | | | Twenty five hundred years after I have passed away, the highest doctrine will be taught in the land of the red-faced people. |
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| | Maha Bodhi Society -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The society was founded in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1891 by Anagarika Dharmapala; one of its original goals was the restoration of the Mahabodhi temple at Buddh Gaya (Bihar state, India), the site of the Buddha's enlightenment, which at that time was in the hands of a Hindu landowner. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9050082
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| | Asia Times: Chapter 3: Muslim riots and communal rumblings |
| | Anagarikas are lay preachers who wore yellow robes, take a vow of celibacy and withdraw from most of the commitments of lay life. | | | He is an alien to the Sinhalese by religion, race and language... | | | His father was a furniture dealer from Pettah, Colombo, who became an apostle of protestant Buddhism. |
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| | Daily Mirror Online : Features |
| | After Dharmapala's demise, the Japan-Ceylon friendship he pioneered remained dormant until, in 1952, after World War 2, at the San Francisco World Conference discussions of war reparations of defeated Japan, Sri Lanka recalled The Buddha's words: “Hate is not overcome by hate,” by love alone this is quelled. | | | Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera, Principal of the Vidyodaya Pirivena, bade the two of them 'bon voyage' and said of Dharmapala, "Dharmapala becomes a historic figure as the first Buddhist delegate from Ceylon to Japan". | | | Kosen had studied Pali and Sanskrit at a temple in Galle in 1886 and had received higher ordination at the Malwatte temple in Kandy and given the name Kosen Gunaratana in 1890. |
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http://www.dailymirror.lk/2003/09/17/feat.html
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| | History |
| | Two years later in 1895, when Anagarika Dharmapala attempted to install a Buddha image presented to him by the people of Japan on the upper floor of the Temple, he was assaulted and prevented from doing so by the Mahant’s men. | | | Note: Shrada is a Hindu last rite, in which mantras and verses are chanted on behalf of the dead, in the belief that this will free the soul from its earthly existence, and allow it to be reborn in heaven. | | | Thus, Dharmapala’s vow is not fulfilled and it still remains. |
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http://www.buddhistpilgrimage.info/history2.htm
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| | At the ceremony, there will be a special mention about Venerable Anagarika Dharmapala who resuscitated Sri Maha Bodhi Temple at Buddha Gaya and made it once more a hallowed place of worship for the World Buddhist Community. | | | In 1891, Anagarika Dharmapala visited Buddha Gaya Temple and after seeing the deplorable condition of the Most Sacred Place to Buddhism with absolute dedication resolved to start his great mission for the restoration of it. | | | New Delhi, India -- The Sri Maha Bodhi Temple at Buddha Gaya erected in the very place where Prince Siddharta attained Enlightenment or Buddhahood will be dedicated as a World Heritage Site on the 19th of February at an official ceremony attended by around 2,000 Buddhist delegates from all over the world. |
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http://www.buddhistnews.tv/current/mahabodhi-170204.php
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| | Embassy of Sri Lanka - Washington DC, USA |
| | The religious devotion of Colonel Olcott and his energetic dedication to a Buddhist renaissance served as the inspiration for the Anagarika Dharmapala who became one of Sri Lanka's greatest national reformers and a peerless missionary for Buddhism throughout the world. | | | When Henry Steel Olcott died, his sandalwood pyre was covered with the American flag and also with the Buddhist flag he designed, which even today is flown during Buddhist festivals. | | | At the Parliament of Religions in Chicago (1893), Anagarika Dharmapala is seated in |
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http://www.slembassyusa.org/srilanka_us_relations/historical_context.html
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| | Go2Lanka: One step gateway to Sri Lanka. Latest News, update throughout the day |
| | The editor in Indiana and the news writers in Colombo of a pro UNP website indicate that they do not know Sri Lanka's hero of modern times, the great Anagarika Dharmapala, who crusaded for the Sinhala Buddhists was not married. | | | But according to the editor, who has apparently highlighted the name Anagarika Dharmapala in the following news item, the great Anagarika was not only married but also had a son called Moonesinghe. | | | The son of Sri Lanka's best known Buddhist crusader Anagarika Dharmapala, Mr. |
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http://www.go2lanka.com/papers/021210.html
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| | Don Croner's WorldWideWanders: India Bodhgaya |
| | Although he devoted the rest of his life to the cause when Anagarika Dharmapala died in 1933 the Mahant still controlled the Mahabodhi Temple and Buddhists visited there at his forbearance. | | | Now a rich and powerful landlord, the current Mahant, who lived in a huge compound just east of the temple, realized that the restored temple, potentially a magnet for Buddhists from all other the world, was a cash cow that could be lucratively milked and had no intention of relinquishing his control over it. | | | Now, some fifty years later, Bodhgaya has become a standard stop for Buddhist pilgrims in India and tourists on cultural excursions. |
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http://www.doncroner.com/India/Bodhgaya/bodhgaya.html
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| | Biblio: The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka by H.L. Seneviratne: Details |
| | Beginning with Anagarika Dharmapala's "rationalization" of Buddhism in the early twentieth century, which called for monks to take on a more activist role in the community Seneviratne shows how the monks have gradually revised their role to include involvement in political and economic spheres. | | | Beginning with Anagarika Dharmapala's "rationalization" of Buddhism in the early twentieth century, which called for monks to take on a more activist role in the community, Seneviratne shows how the monks have gradually revised their role to include involvement in political and economic spheres. | | | Using never-before translated Sinhalese documents and extensive interviews with monks, Sri Lankan anthropologist H.L. Seneviratne unravels the inner workings of this New Buddhism and the ideology on which it is based. |
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http://www.biblio.com/books/isbnnu/30455590.html
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| | ZaTaNg.CoM - LoCals - Kolkata - City Speaks - Maha Bodhi Society |
| | Dharmapala toured India, Ceylon, Japan, America, England, Honolulu, France and Italy to spread the message of Buddhism - he wanted a united Buddhist world. | | | He was the most strict Buddhist who came from Sri Lanka. | | | In sondhya bela of that day following that of their arrival, full moon rose bright and beautiful in blue sky, and Dharmapala notes with satisfaction in his diary:“May the mission be a success! |
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http://www.zatang.com/locals/cityk/kspeaks25.htm
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| | Soyen Shaku - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | Along with Anagarika Dharmapala and others, Shaku was considered authoritative to speak to the West on behalf of the world's Buddhist community. | | | In 1893 Shaku was invited by John Henry Barrows to attend the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. | | | He addressed the conference that September with a series of talks, notably about karma, nonviolence, an end to war and tolerance of other religions. |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Soyen_Shaku
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| | The Sunday Leader Internet Edition |
| | Although Dharmapala was unashamedly a Buddhist nationalist, his religious dogmatism has to be viewed in the light of the fact that the ruling class, whether British or Burgher, was almost 100% Christian. | | | In a sense, their time has come: the factors that will shape Sri Lanka's fate in the 21st century are just as much in the crucible of political evolution as they were a century ago, when the complexion of 20th century Sri Lanka was being fashioned by the Buddhist nationalist revival. | | | But both these influences were to prove useful, for Dharmapala was perhaps the first Sri Lankan of note to use international events far removed from the reality of Sri Lanka's day-to-day life, to push the nation away from the colonial yoke. |
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http://www.lanka.net/sundayleader/1998/may/3rd/politics.html
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka |
| | Just as in the writings of the Anagarika Dharmapala, we have the disparaging of all other religions, the disparaging of westerners, and the pitting of the Sinhala nation against a foreign threat (real or imagined), so with the Ven. | | | So, to recap the long excerpt, modern Sinhala nationalists are following the lead of the Anagarika Dharmapala in reinterpreting Buddhism to support an ideology of racial/national supremacy straight out of World War II. | | | With Buddhism Ceylon shall yet become the beacon light of Religion to the World(47) |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t14517.html
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| | Namo Buddhaya: The Anagarika Dharmapala Archive |
| | The purpose of the Anagarika Dharmapala Archive is to honour this Sinhalese Buddhist activist who contributed so greatly to the revival of Theravada Buddhism in the latter part of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala's written legacy has not been widely available outside of Sri Lanka. | | | This site hopes to rectify this by making his essays and speeches more widely available. |
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http://www.vipassana.com/resources/dharmapala
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| | Theravada Buddhism in America by Wendy Cadge |
| | The origin of Theravada Buddhism in America can be traced to a speech made by Anagarika Dharmapala at the World Parliament of Religions meeting in 1893. | | | U Silananda, Indian lay teachers Anagarika Munindra and Dipa Ma, and the Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama visited IMS in the late 1970s and 1980s, and the teachers at IMS returned to Asia to study with their teachers there. | | | While the first Theravada Buddhist organizations founded largely by Asians and white Americans had little contact with one another, they occasionally shared teachers and influenced each other in unexpected ways. |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/089002.html
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| | Daily Mirror Online |
| | The 138 birth anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala who did yeoman service to rekindle interest in Buddhism in Sri Lanka will be marked with the handing over of the vehicle used by Anagarika Dharmapala to the Mahabodhi Viharaya at 3 pm tomorrow. | | | A number of delegates from various Buddhist countries like Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and India will participate in the Commemoration ceremony which will be presided over by Minister Karu Jayasooriya. | | | The vehicle which had been used by Anagarika Dharmapala was called "Sobana Maligawa" then to attract people to the facilities it possessed. |
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http://www.dailymirror.lk/2002/09/16/News/3.html
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| | Quang Duc Homepage - Vietnamese - English Buddhist library |
| | In the latter part of the 19th century, Buddhist revivalism came to the fore with Scholar Monks such as Ven. | | | This committee set about the task of evolving a Buddhist Flag to be hoisted on Vesak Full Moon Day, 28th May 1885, the day declared as a Public Holiday, for the first time. | | | Anagarika Dharmapala and Valisinghe Harischandra too made a great impact on the movement. |
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http://www.quangduc.com/English/WorldBuddhism/35buddhistflag.html
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| | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| | Dharmapala and Diogo de Mello and the bodyguards stepped out of the palace to investigate and met a surging crowd led by Buddhist monks. | | | I this paper I want to tentatively examine the pre-colonial formations of nationhood and identity in Buddhist Sri Lanka, prior to the radical changes associated with modernity and the reforms of both Colonel Olcott and Anagarika Dharmapala in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a reaction to both colonialism and imperial conquest. | | | Dharmapala himself was sympathetic to Catholicism and was baptized in 1557 and ceded his kingdom to the Portuguese king in 1580. |
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| | In contrast the VYO position was 'ideological' and called for 'social service' in a way that catered to middle class desires and has eventually resulted in the secularisation of the monks. | | | This book deciphers the interventions of bhikkhus in the socio-political processes of Lanka over the last 70 years. | | | Seneviratne identifies two streams of activity, the one typically associated with the monks of Vidyodaya (VYO) and the other with the monks of Vidyalankara (VL). |
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