For the most part I was an observer of those unfortunate events took place during the Poson month. We Sinhalese Buddhists consider month of June significant for the historical event of introducing Buddhism to Sri Lanka -or whatever the name used for it at that time- after the third council. In fact Arahath Mahinda is known to us as "Anubudhu ...
Today the yahapalana (good governance) government presented the interim proposal for aiding the citizens. I went through the list swiftly which has lot of popular type 'benefits' that can bring mainly short term popularity to the new regime if the target is next parliamentary election. I can't blame the yahapalanaya for preparing itself for the election so I would move ...
I was not aware that something formal was there but it seems Sri Lankan devotees of Brahmavanso Mahathera already were organized into a society. He had visited Sri Lanka before and conducted training sessions, retreats few times. There are some translations of books by Ajahn in Sinhala. Among urban Buddhists his name has become popular recently. This time the main ...
Few weeks ago I was travelling from Colombo to Home with my partner. We were in a hired cab which was trying to move forward with the heavy traffic at the evening. Our driver honked a three wheeler that overtook us from right and took a quick left slide to come in front of our vehicle. I felt it quite ...
