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... Asoka Spreads the Teaching . The establishing of the Buddha's Law in Lanka took place two hundred and thirty six years after the nibbana of the Buddha , at Kusinara . That is when the great Maurya empire , founded by Candagutta , the ...
... Asoka Spreads the Teaching . The establishing of the Buddha's Law in Lanka took place two hundred and thirty six years after the nibbana of the Buddha , at Kusinara . That is when the great Maurya empire , founded by Candagutta , the ...
Page iii
... Asoka , had not come to this Island , and set THE WHEEL OF THE BUDDHA'S LAW in motion , the Pali canon would not have been recorded , the authentic , clear , and complete , account of the path to the extinction of ill , nibbana , would ...
... Asoka , had not come to this Island , and set THE WHEEL OF THE BUDDHA'S LAW in motion , the Pali canon would not have been recorded , the authentic , clear , and complete , account of the path to the extinction of ill , nibbana , would ...
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... Asoka , generally agreed to be one of the most civilised and humane monarchs known to history . The contrast with Ceylon is pitiful beyond words . The leaders of our country have forsaken those Buddhist ideals which for centuries were ...
... Asoka , generally agreed to be one of the most civilised and humane monarchs known to history . The contrast with Ceylon is pitiful beyond words . The leaders of our country have forsaken those Buddhist ideals which for centuries were ...
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administration Anuradhapura appointed Archbishop of Colombo areas Asoka attendance bhikkhus British Colonialism Buddha Sasana Council Buddhist activities Buddhist children Buddhist education Buddhist schools Catholic Action Catholic school Ceylonese charitable Christian religious bodies Christian schools clause Colombo Colonel Olcott Committee compulsory Constitution corporation cultural bodies Devanampiyatissa Dhamma Director of Education Dutch economic education in Ceylon England English established favour funds given governing authority Government bodies Government schools Governor Grant iv Grant-in-aid schools India influence institutions island Kandy kings Laboratory Grant Lanka large number law of trusts Legislative Council Lord Acton Minister missionaries moral Mortmain Muslims nibbana non-Buddhists non-Christian officials organised parents Parliament persons pirivena education political Portuguese powers prerogatives present principle Protestant recommend registered religion Report responsibility Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church rule Sangha sects secular Sinhalese Sir Ivor Jennings social society teachers teaching temple lands tion wealth