Events

International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) is the world's leading Buddhist organization that joins hands with 300 Buddhist organizations spread across the globe, together with many powerful countries worldwide. With its headquarters…

All kinds of happiness and sadness are mainly of two types. They are both physically and mentally. Mental happiness and sadness affect us the most among these. Physical suffering does not affect us strongly unless we are seriously ill and…

Ekāyanō ayaṃ bhikkavē -–Cattarō satipaṭṭhāna Dukkha dōmanassaṃ attamgamāya – gnāyassa adhigam āya Nibbānassa sacchim kiriyāya – yadidam cattārō satipaṭṭhāna The moment we hear about the Four Satipaṭṭhāna, we immediately think…

Dr. Damenda Porage is a unique individual of many facets. He is a scholar of international repute, an intellectual, a specialist in Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism, an educator and a public speaker. He is also an unofficial SAARC ambassador…

The Bodhisatta was once a royal treasurer. While one of his slaves pounded rice, her mother was getting bitten by flies and asked her daughter to shoo them away. Without thinking, the daughter tried to kill the flies with her pestle and…

The birthday of Dr. Damenda Porage, Honourary Chairman of the Foundation for Buddhist Brotherhood was on November 4, 2023, and this time he was able to celebrate it in a more special way. At the inauguration of the newly built Dhamma hall…

A historic Buddhist event was held recently in Nashik district which immensely contributed to strengthen the Indo-Sri Lankan Buddhist brotherhood that has existed since time immemorial and for the welfare of all Buddhists.  That is, the…

The Bodhisatta was once a tree fairy living in a rose apple tree. One day a jackal looked up and saw a crow eating fruit from this tree and hoped that with a bit of flattery the crow would drop some fruit down for him. “Your voice is as…

Binara Poya (Binara Pura Pasalosvaka Poya Day) usually falls in September. Binara Poya is the day when Sri Lankan Buddhists commemorate the establishment of the Bhikkhuni Sasanaya (Bhikkhuni Sangha) or Order of the Female Buddhist Monastic.…

If the status of Buddhism in the 19th century Sri Lanka and India were to be compared to a sky, that sky was engulfed by darkness unrelieved. Through that inky blackness emerged a shining beacon of light in the form of Anagarika Dharmapala…