Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
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... Thera Mahinda in Sri Lanka , which the Mahavamsa provides is that the samanera Sumana announced the hour for a ... Thera is said to have delivered a discourse to an audience which comprised gods and deities . ( M.14 . 33-41 ) . The first ...
... Thera Mahinda in Sri Lanka , which the Mahavamsa provides is that the samanera Sumana announced the hour for a ... Thera is said to have delivered a discourse to an audience which comprised gods and deities . ( M.14 . 33-41 ) . The first ...
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... Thera Mahinda The Thera Moggaliputta - Tissa who brought the Third Buddhist Council to a close , assigned missions to propagate Buddhism in various parts of India and the neighbouring countries . He had chosen the theras Mahinda ...
... Thera Mahinda The Thera Moggaliputta - Tissa who brought the Third Buddhist Council to a close , assigned missions to propagate Buddhism in various parts of India and the neighbouring countries . He had chosen the theras Mahinda ...
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... thera Mahinda's mission is established by an epigraphical record of the second century B.C. , which marks a thupa where the remains of the thera Mahinda and one of his companions , the thera Itthiya , were enshrined ( Chapter VII , B ) ...
... thera Mahinda's mission is established by an epigraphical record of the second century B.C. , which marks a thupa where the remains of the thera Mahinda and one of his companions , the thera Itthiya , were enshrined ( Chapter VII , B ) ...
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Foreword by His Excellency J R Jayewardene | 5 |
A Double Anniversary Why Another Translation? | 11 |
Chapter | 27 |
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