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Vessagiriya, or Issarasamanarama, is an ancient Buddhist forest monastery that is part of the ruins of Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka. It is located about half a mile south of Isurumuniya, among boulders. Begun in the reign of King Devanampiya Tissa (mid-3rd century BC), the site was expanded during the reign of King ...
[citation needed] After donating Vessagiriya to Maha Sangha this sculpture would have been removed and placed at its present place. The Lovers in the sculptured plaque are King Kuvera Vaisrawana and his Queen Kuni. Ramayana states that Vaisrawana who lived in Vessagiriya ruled Sri Lanka from Lankapura before Rawana. [4] [better source needed]
Ignatius Yunan was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1817 until 1818 when he resigned from the Holy See and went to live in the Monastery of Mor Elias until his death in 1823.
Anuradhapura (Sinhala: අනුරාධපුරය, romanized: Anurādhapuraya; Tamil: அனுராதபுரம், romanized: Aṉurātapuram) is a major ...
Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero (born: 1 July 1961) is a Sri Lankan monk. He is the founder & chief advisor of Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery [1],Mahamevnawa Maha Sangha Saba(මහමෙව්නාව මහා සංඝ සභාව) and Shraddha Media Network.Many people address Him as "Pinwath Loku Swamin Wahanse(පින්වත් ලොකු ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ)"
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo was born Diane Perry in Woolmers Park, Hertfordshire, England, on 30 June 1943. [1] [2] Although spiritualist meetings were held in her childhood home, she realised at the age of 18 that she was a Buddhist when she read a library book on the subject.
Within three years, the population of the monastery grew to fifteen individuals. [3] [4] Prayer services were initially held in Syriac. [3] Francis Mahieu later changed his name to Francis Acharya [5] and became an Indian citizen. [6] The monastery was incorporated as an abbey into the Cistercian Order of Strict Observance in July 1998. [1] [3] [7]
The name is a corruption of Tasajera, a Spanish-American word derived from an indigenous Esselen word, which means "place where meat is hung to dry". [4] [5]The 126-acre mountain property surrounding the Tassajara Hot Springs was purchased by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 for the below-market price [6] of $300,000 [5] from Robert and Anna Beck. [7]