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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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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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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Mihintale (section The Cave of Arahat Mahinda)
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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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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Buddhism in Sri Lanka (redirect from Buddhist preaching (Sri Lanka))
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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The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhist faith under the patronage of Emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE and subsequently during...
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Group.) Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat. Shambhala Publications, 2004. Bhikkhu Mahinda, Theravāda Buddhism and Vegetarianism:...
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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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Theravada (redirect from Theravada Buddhist)
throughout India and reached Sri Lanka through the efforts of missionary monks like Mahinda. In Sri Lanka, it became known as the Tambapaṇṇiya (and later as Mahāvihāravāsins)...
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Moggaliputta-Tissa (category 4th-century BC Buddhist monks)
Moggaliputtatissa (ca. 327–247 BCE), was a Buddhist monk and scholar who was born in Pataliputra, Magadha (now Patna, India) and lived in the 3rd century...
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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera (category Theravada Buddhist monks)
January 1827 – 29 April 1911) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, who was one of the pioneers of Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist movement in the 19th century. He...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa (Sinhala: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served...
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Tripiṭaka (redirect from Buddhist Canon)
for a Buddhist monk who has mastered the teachings of the Tripiṭaka. In Chinese culture, this is notable in the case of the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang...
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Ashoka (category Buddhist pacifists)
son Mahinda became a Buddhist monk, and his daughter became a Buddhist nun. A story in Divyavadana attributes Ashoka's conversion to the Buddhist monk Samudra...
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Buddhism in Thailand (redirect from Thai Buddhist)
abroad, a monk must have an official letter from Sangha Supreme Council granting the applicant permission to travel abroad, a Buddhist monk identification...
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Jathika Hela Urumaya (category Buddhist political parties)
Lanka (ed.) Mahinda Deegalle, Routledge, London and New York, 2006, p. 236. Mahinda Deegalle, “Contested Religious Conversions of Buddhists in Sri Lanka...
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Vihāra (redirect from Buddhist monasteries)
individual monk, which led to his expulsion. The Mahinda Mahavihara led to the orthodox Theravada tradition. The Abhayagiri vihara monks, rejected and...
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Buddhism in Myanmar (redirect from Burmese Buddhist)
90% of the population. It is the most religious Buddhist country in terms of the proportion of monks in the population and proportion of income spent...
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Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera is the Chief Incumbent (Chief Priest) of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara and Head of the Buddhist and Pali Faculty...
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Pali Canon (redirect from Buddhist Páli literature)
scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon. It derives mainly...
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Theragatha (redirect from Verses of the Elder Monks)
(Verses of the Elder Monks) is a Buddhist text, a collection of short poems in Pali attributed to members of the early Buddhist sangha. It is classified...
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Buddhism and violence (redirect from Buddhist Terrorism)
Deegalle, Mahinda (2006), Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-54441-2 DeVotta, Neil (2007), Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist...
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Index of Buddhism-related articles (redirect from List of Buddhist topics)
Mahayana Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra Mahayana sutras Mahinda Mahinda College Mahindarama Buddhist Temple Mahisasaka Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara Maitreya...
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the perfected one Arahant Mahinda Thera or Mahinda, son of the Indian emperor Ashoka; a Buddhist monk Arahant Upatissa, Buddhist scholar in Sri Lanka, author...
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Theatre, prior to naming at the opening ceremony after which the President Mahinda Rajapaksa named it after himself) is a performing arts centre in Colombo...
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