My recent experience with Christian Boards of management has shown me how this embezzlement is done One common way is to give employment to board members even when the local organization’s constitution insists that a Board member must be service oriented and cannot take a salary The Rev. Gnanasara…
Lord Buddha By Sri Swami Sivananda Introduction Birth Astrologer’s Prediction Suddhodana’s Precaution Renunciation Enlightenment Spreading the Doctrine The End A Few Episodes Buddha’s Teachings Click here for an overview of Buddhism Introduction In the sixth century before the Christian era, religion was forgotten in India. The lofty teachings of the…
Root causes of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka World Bank, 20 February 2008 A thematic history of the causes of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lankan was set out in the Appendix to the 2003 report on Sri Lanka by the World Bank. This is reproduced below. Background The ethnic…
2017-05-06 By Manekshaw The early eighties had witnessed Jaffna Peninsula gradually turning into a land of merciless killings with the emergence of several Tamil militant outfits with the slogan of liberation struggle for Eelam. Leaders of some of the Tamil militant outfits including Douglas Devananda, K. Pathmanabha and Suresh K.…
Almost everyone feels religious in Sri Lanka Oliver Smith, digital travel editor 16 APRIL 2017 • 7:00AM To mark the Easter weekend (because it’s not all about chocolate), we’ve mapped the world’s most – and least – religious countries. We’ve based our map on the results of three Gallup polls, taken…
Defining religion Sita Ram Goel answers the questions raised in the Antaios’ special number on Hindutva. Publication : The Observer. Date : February 22, 1997. Who are you? How do you define yourself? I am a Hindu, which to me means the inheritor of the oldest and the highest…
Buddhist Veneration In the Theravada tradition, it is customary to pay homage to the Buddha, recite the Three Refuges and undertake to observe the Pancca Sila (Pansil) on visiting a place of worship or at the start of a Buddhist ceremony. One can recite the following stanzas by oneself or…