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| | Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The island of Sri Lanka, lies within the Indian Ocean, with the Bay of Bengal to the northeast. | | | Sri Lanka is the country with the highest species richness in the world and home to several forest ecoregions, whose flora and fauna is related to that of southern India. | | | Sri Lanka is historically famous for its cinnamon and tea (introduced by the British in the 19th century). |
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| | WWW Virtual Library Sri Lanka |
| | Historical Buddhist Shrines and Monesteries in Sri Lanka | | | ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA (The introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka is attributed to Asoka's son Mahinda who came to the Island about the middle of the third century BC. | | | Buddhism as a religion, philosophy,psychology and a science ( To all Buddhists the question of religion and its origin, is not a metaphysical one. |
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| | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| | Scholars identify the Theravāda form of Buddhism that grew in Sri Lanka as Sinhala Buddhism. | | | Two prominent Sri Lankan anthropologists, Gananath Obeyesekere (1) and Kitsiri Malalgoda, (2) created the phrase Protestant Buddhism to identify a form of Buddhism that appeared in Sri Lanka as a response to Protestant Christian missionaries and their evangelical activities during the British colonial period. | | | Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy. |
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| | The Muslims in Sri Lanka |
| | Chandra Bhanu, the Malay King of Nakhon Sri Dhammarat in the Isthmus of Kra on the Malay Peninsula invaded Sri Lanka in A.D. 1247, with Malay soldiers. | | | Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka during the reign of King Devanampiya Tissa during the period 307-267 B.C. Trade relations between India and Sri Lanka are traced to the 3rd century B.C. Historians have not been able to pin-point the actual date of establishment of Tamil settlements in Sri Lanka. | | | This period was one of ascendancy in peace and prosperity for the Sri Lankan Muslims. |
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| | Theravaada Buddhism in Sri Lanka |
| | Whereas Buddhism in India, after the destruction of the Sa"ngha, was completely replaced by Hinduism, which won the adherence of the masses, in Sri Lanka the king and the populace remained Buddhist despite the disappearance of the Sa"ngha. | | | Theravaada Buddhism originated in Sri Lanka, and it is Sri Lanka that transmitted the Paali Tipi.taka, as well as numerous commentaries, synopses, chronicles, and grammars. | | | The reign of Kiirti 'Sri Raajasiimha (1747-1781) was a period of Buddhist revival, marked by the activity of the founder of the Siyam Nikaaya, Vaalivi.ta Sara.na.makara. |
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| | Religion in Sri Lanka Travel Guide to SriLanka |
| | As Sri Lankan population is composed with multi-ethnic group, the religion in Sri Lanka is inevitably diverse. | | | Experts say that religion in Sri Lanka is syncretism bending elements of Buddhism, Hinduism and spiritual beliefs of indigenous people, creating then the uniqueness of religious character of Sri Lanka. | | | Buddhism among other religions in Sri Lanka seems to be the most important as it was claimed to be the religion of the majority Sinhalese who hold sway the country's power. |
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| | Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most historians believe that the prince Vijaya came to Sri Lanka from Orissa, in north-eastern India, during the 6th century BC (some historians trace the origins back some 25,000 years) and started to rule the native people in Sri Lanka. | | | The island of Sri Lanka, lies within the Indian Ocean, with the Bay of Bengal to the northeast. | | | Sri Lanka is the country with the highest species richness in the world and home to several forest ecoregions, whose flora and fauna is related to that of southern India. |
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| | Sri Lankan Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sri Lanka is the country with longest continal history of Buddhism. | | | The Buddha statue of Aukana in Sri Lanka | | | Theravada has been the major religion in the island since roughly its introduction in the 2nd century BC by Venerable Mahinda, the son of the Emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of Sri Lanka's King Devanampiya. |
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| | Islam teaches that God may reveal His will to mankind through an angel; such recipients of revelation are known as prophets. | | | Like the other Abrahamic religions, Islam teaches the bodily resurrection of the dead, the fulfillment of a divine plan for creation, and the immortality of the human soul; the righteous are rewarded with the pleasures of Jannah (Heaven or the garden of Paradise), while the unrighteous are punished in Jahannam (a fiery Hell). | | | Muslims hold that it is essentially the same belief as that of all the messengers sent by God to mankind, with the Qur'ān (the one definitive text of the Muslim faith) codifying the final revelation of God. |
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| | Buddhism Page - Welcome to Sri Lanka by Ari Withanage |
| | Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is the oldest continually Buddhist country in the world, Buddhism being the major religion in the island since its introduction in the 2nd century BC. | | | The history of Sri Lanka is inseparably intertwined with the history of Buddhism in the island. | | | According to the Mahavamsa, Asoka's son and emissary to Sri Lanka, Mahinda, introduced the monarch to Buddhism. |
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| | Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This was seen as discriminatory by the Tamils and lead to tensions between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil politial/military groups which erupted in violence in 1983 following the killing of 13 soldiers of the Sri Lankan Army in Jaffna. | | | Most historians believe that the prince Vijaya came to Sri Lanka from Orissa, in north-eastern India, during the 6th century BC (some historians trace the origins back some 25,000 years) and started to rule the native people in Sri Lanka. | | | Sri Lanka is historically famous for its cinnamon and tea (introduced by the British in the 19th century). |
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| | Islam in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | They trace their ancestry to Arab traders who moved to southern India and Sri Lanka some time between the eighth and fifteenth centuries, adopted the Tamil language that was the common language of Indian Ocean trade, and settled permanently in Sri Lanka. | | | Muslims, who make up approximately 7 percent of the population, comprise a group of minorities practicing the religion of Islam in Sri Lanka. | | | The language of the Sri Lankan Moors is Tamil, or a type of "Arabic Tamil" that contains a large number of Arabic words. |
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| | Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to the Mahavamsa, Asoka's son and emissary to Sri Lanka, Mahinda, introduced the monarch to Buddhism. | | | The history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, especially its extended period of glory, is for many Sinhalese a potent symbol that links the past with the present. | | | Sri Lanka's citizens enjoy a long life expectancy, advanced health standards, and one of the highest literacy rates in the world despite the fact that the country has one of the lowest per capita incomes. |
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| | Sri Lanka - Buddhism |
| | Buddhism in Sri Lanka has its roots deep in one of the earliest variants of Buddhism that survives in the world today. | | | The monks of Sri Lanka have kept alive an unbroken Pali transmission of monastic rules, stories of the Buddha's life, and philosophical treatises that may constitute the oldest body of written Buddhist traditions. | | | Another example of this religious syncretism is the cult of Sri Lanka's leading oracle, Gale Bandara Deviyo, who originally was a Muslim prince slain by the Sinhalese to prevent his accession to the throne. |
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| | Demographics of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sri Lanka is ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. | | | Sri Lanka Tamils, citizens whose South Indian ancestors have lived on the island for centuries, total about 12% and live predominantly in the north and east. | | | Demographics of Sri Lanka, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands. |
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| | The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism In Sri Lanka. |
| | When Rahula wants to portray Buddhism as the most rationalistic of religions — when he speaks to Westerners and Sri Lankans interested in meditation — he invokes "ancient Buddhism." "Ancient Buddhism" is Buddhism as a "technology of wandering mendicants" without cult or context. | | | The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism In Sri Lanka. | | | There are large numbers of Buddhist lay people in Sri Lanka who share his revulsion at the prospect of monks who spend their lives being chauffeured about and hobnobbing with foreign supporters. |
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| | Sri Lanka Myna Gracula ptilogenys 1846 The Sri Lanka Myna, Gracula ptilogenys, is a Sri Lanka. | | | Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6 Thrushes by Clement and H... | | | Sri Lanka Junglefowl Gallus lafayetii ' 1831 The Sri Lanka Junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii) is a member of the Chicken wa... |
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| | Lanka Link :: Buddhism Web Site Links |
| | Buddhism has been significant not only in India but also in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, where Theravada has been dominant; Mahayana has had its greatest impact in China, Japan, Taiwan, Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as in India. | | | Viewpoint on what Buddhism is, from a rationalist standpoint. | | | Buddhism, a major world religion, founded in northeastern India and based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who is known as the Buddha, or Enlightened One. |
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| | Flag of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The flag of Sri Lanka was adopted in 1948. | | | In 1972, when the country changed its name to Sri Lanka, four leaves of the pipul tree were added to the corners of the red panel to represent the majority Buddhist community. | | | When Sri Lanka gained its independence in 1948 as Ceylon, it adopted the ancient flag of the kingdom of Kandy, which consisted of a red field with a gold lion and sword in its centre. |
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| | Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The international Buddhist flag was designed in Sri Lanka in the 1880s with the assistance of Henry Steele Olcott and was later adopted as a symbol by the World Fellowship of Buddhists. | | | Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama ( Sanskrit ; in Pāli, Siddhattha Gotama), who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BCE. | | | However, Buddhism there was supplanted by the introduction of Islam around 1000. |
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| | Islam In Sri Lanka |
| | Islam means submission or surender.people who follow the religion of Islam surrender to the law and will of Allah.Allah is a contraction of Al-llah.Al-llah are two two Arabic words meaning the God.In the quran, the Holy Book containing the laws of islam, the word Allah appears 2700 times. | | | Muhammad is the founder of Islam and he was born in the Saudi Arabian city named Mecca in the year 570.When Muhammad was about 40 years of age, he declared that he had been sent by Allah to be the last prophet of islam. | | | There are five main rules in Islam called Shahadhah, or making a public confession of faith that there is no God but God: Muhammed is the Prophet of God, Zakat or paying an obligatory tax, Ramalan or fasting a complete month from sun up to sun down and the Hajj meaning the pilgrimage to Mecca. |
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| | Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is an ongoing conflict between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils on the island-nation of Sri Lanka. | | | About 74% of Sri Lankans are Sinhalese, most of them Buddhist, mostly following the Theravada tradition. | | | Sri Lanka is one of the world's bio-diversity hot-spots. |
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| | Sri Lanka 2004 |
| | Fortunately, the proposed law is unlikely to affect Buddhist-Muslim relations because Islam in Sri Lanka, like Buddhism, is not a proselytising religion. | | | Until the campaign began, most Buddhists in Sri Lanka lived peacefully with adherents of other faiths. | | | The ads point out that Article 10 of the Sri Lankan Constitution states that "every person is entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice." But the bills seek to deny these rights. |
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| | A Virtual Travel to Sri Lanka - Ilankai - Sri Lanka Tourism |
| | Mihintale, the cradle of Buddhism in Sri Lanka | | | Embassy of Sri Lanka in the U.S. Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington D.C. Sri Lanka Missions Overseas | | | Organization to conserve and preserve the dwindling biodiversity of Sri Lanka. |
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| | Buddhism in Sri Lanka surviving despite 500-year suppression |
| | Speaking on the theme "Miracle of the Survival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka under 500 Years of Suppression", Anthonis said that in the era in which the society was primarily agricultural and in which there were no Sinhalese songs, poetry came naturally to the lips of the people of the orient. | | | This was a significant factor in the spread of Buddhism in the West. | | | In spite of 500 years of powerful suppression by three foreign powers, Buddhism still could not be destroyed due to the reverence paid to the Buddha chivara, the presence of Buddhist temples and monks and the love of poetry, observed Deshamanya Dr. P. |
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| | WWW Virtual Library: Sri Lanka: A diverse nation |
| | Sri Lanka claims the world's second oldest continuous written history - but history and religious mythology have played a key role in the development of communal animosity. | | | In July 1987, India and Sri Lanka signed an accord, which the LTTE at first went along with, to try to settle the problem through devolution and greater autonomy for the Tamils while an Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) would disarm the rebels. | | | Negotiations began in 1985 and the Sri Lankan government made a number of concessions to the Tamils with some devolution of power and official status for the Tamil language. |
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| | Sri Lanka (02/05) |
| | Sri Lanka is ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. | | | India withdrew the last of its forces from Sri Lanka in early 1990, and fighting between the LTTE and the government resumed. | | | The future of Sri Lanka's economic health is uncertain but is primarily dependent on continued tsunami relief and reconstruction, political stability, continuation of the peace process, and continued policy reforms--particularly in the area of fiscal discipline and direct management. |
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| | Adherents.com |
| | Buddhism in Sri Lanka is of the southern type, Theravada Buddhism... | | | It flourishes today in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, and is the most widely researched of all the early schools of Buddhism. | | | "Today Hinayana Buddhism of the Theravada school is to be found in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia; Mahayana in China, Japan, Vietnam, and Korea; Vajrayana in Tibet, Mongolia, and Japan. |
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| | ACSLU Document No 37 |
| | In Sri Lanka there is now no ethnic problem as virtually every kind of ethnic concession has been made to the Tamils. | | | This support came to them partly through default on the part of those upholding the unity of Sri Lanka who failed to counter the Tamil propaganda, and partly through the activity of interest religious and other groups who abhorred the prospect of a Buddhist country like Sri Lanka succeeding internationally. | | | Unfortunately for Sri Lanka this is what seems to be happening. |
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| | Sri Lanka. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The population of Sri Lanka is composed mainly (about 75%) of Sinhalese, who are Theravada Buddhists; Hindu Tamils make up a large minority (some 18%), and there are smaller groups of Muslim Moors, Burghers (descendants of Dutch and Portuguese colonists), and Eurasians (descended from British colonists). | | | Sri Lanka’s coastal areas, especially in the south and east, were devastated by the Dec., 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami that was caused by an earthquake off NW Sumatra. | | | Buddhism stimulated the fine arts in Sri Lanka, its classical period lasted from the 4th to the 6th cent. |
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