A great and benign influence on Sri Lankan culture

Sri Dharma Rakshitha Vansalankara Tripitaka Vadiswara Most Venerable Pelene Vajiragnana Mahanayake Thera, whose life and work we commemorate in November, was born in 1878 in the deep South of Sri Lanka where the Buddha Dhamma and Sinhala culture had been preserved throughout the centuries.

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The Morning Inspection - Malinda

Death is a teacher

In the vast canon that is the Buddha’s teachings there is frequent reference to the sathara brahma viharana or the four sublime modes of living: meththa (loving-kindness), karuna (compassion), muditha (appreciative or sympathetic joy) and upekkha (equanimity). I recently listened to a sermon where the bikkhu commented on this, pointing out that it is probably mothers who demonstrate most this particular set of qualities.

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Moragahakanda - Kalu Ganga project:

Mega reservoir scheme on target

The Mahaweli Ganga Development Program is a multi-purpose project ever undertaken in Sri Lanka, based on the water resources of Mahaweli and allied six river basins. It aims at creating more jobs, increasing agricultural production and hydro-power generation, preventing floods and providing relief to the landless people.

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Back to BASICS - Renton de Alwis

Making our child minds work

Seeing what is happening around us, I cannot but refrain from quoting from a book I wrote and released just the day before the Presidential election of 2005. It was a collection of regular weekly columns I wrote in a Sunday journal over the previous year, intending them to be a socio-political commentary of our times.

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