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	The significance of 'Vas'
		His exhortation to the bhikkus was: "Anajayami, bhikkhave vassane vassam upagantum" (I declare O bhikkus, to observe the 'vas' during the rainy season).
		Among them there were bhikkus who had risen to the spiritual eminence of 'sovan' (the first phase of sainthood), of 'sakadagami' (the second phase of sainthood) and 'anagami' (the third phase of sainthood).
		Inthis Sutta, the bhikkus are advised to satisfy themselves with whateveris offered by the laity, in the form of food, clothing and shelter, which heshould receive with a token of delight.
	www.floridabuddhistvihara.org /rcsite/page.jsp?articleid=36 (667 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the collapse of the several Sinhala-Buddhist kingdoms that survived into the late feudal age of the 14th and 15th centuries in a large part of the island and the subsequent terrible colonial onslaught, the Sangha was one of the institutions that suffered most.
		Today a bhikku painter is a rarity and 'news', a bhikku doctor non-existent except for the very few bhikku ayurvedic healers, while a bhikku teacher is a little more common although never at any senior administrative level except within the Sasana educational institutions themselves.
		In that society (and probably the preceding social formations), the bhikkus and yogis and svaamis were the teachers and the scholars.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/02/22/fea01.html (1809 words)

	LankaWeb News
		Ratnaseeha says that the letter, which was submitted to the Gen. Secretary of the Parliament in the presence of the Speaker (in a jiffy the letter was in the hands of the Election Commissioner!), announcing his resignation, alas, was signed by him not in natural or clear conscience but under threat to do so.
		Rathaneseeha further says, one bhikku among the gang threatened to kill himself blasting a bomb which was in his person at that moment.
		But within the elected nine Bhikkus clear division of two factions appeared right from the beginning making voters silent prayers to a divine hand to patch the cracks up persuading all nine to go on the same path.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items04/150604-5.html (1576 words)

	Latest News from Sri Lanka - Please help to protect our heritage - Moodu Maha Viharaya
		The most heartbreaking and mournful sight on the road to Amparai was the monument erected in memory of the 31 bhikkus murdered by the LTTE on June 2 1987 at Aranthalawa.
		A short distance away from the main road, a plaque has been fixed on a rock with all the names of the bhikkus, most of them novices.On top of this rock is another smaller rock with a plaque which bears an imprint of the ‘avanpatha’ the fan carried by bhikkus.
		Chief amongst the bhikkus murdered was the Most Venerable Hegoda Shri Indrasara, Nayake thera, Chief incumbent and Director of the Sri Vidyananda Pirivena and Adhikarana nayake of the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
	www.spur.asn.au /Moodu_Maha_Viharaya.htm (1481 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Then the bhikku goes to the house of a householder on invitation to a meal and when he is served with good alms food, he does not think: ‘how good that the householder serves me with good alms food!
		This creativity of the human mind in culinary art, is for nothing else but to appease one’s taste -utter greed - for meat; and not meant to reflect the ‘danger in it’ as a bhikku or a practising Buddhist is expected to do, in an earnest effort to tread the path towards liberation.
		Having eaten the chicken curry, can the bhikkus and the yogis be heard to say that they did not have ‘reason to suspect’ that the fowls had been killed for them, and that the food they had was ‘ blameless’!
	www.buddhistnews.tv /current/veg-bud-F.php (2060 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Sri Lanka \| Moodu Maha Viharaya: The sun sets in the East for Buddhist temple
		It was his guru the Ven Tangalle Sri Sunanda Maha Nayake thera, Adhikarana Sanghanayake of the Southern province, who first studied the ‘Sannas patra’ (official document conferring authority) of the temple and traced the beginnings and history of the vihare.
		Since then bhikkus have lived in this temple, but it was abandoned eventually due to the hostility of the environment, its isolation and the lack of Buddhist devotees who would help to sustain the vihare.
		The bhikku has complained to the powers that be and to the police.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=1,1794,0,0,1,0 (1461 words)

	CHAPTER ELEVEN - PART II - THE CLERGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The development of religion in a country depends on the development of its citizens...Thus, it is suitable that a bhikku engages in activity geared towards the advancement of the citizens without taking into consideration that the activity is political or not, provided that such activity does not contradict the way of life of a Bhukku.
		However the increasing politicisation of violence in the period under review, had reduced the space available for non-violent means of engaging in democratic political activity, thus giving rise to several new means of resistance to the dominant political culture of this period.
		An instance where Bhikkus and attendants of Sri Jinaraja Viharaya, Veyangoda in Gampaha District were shot and their bodies left at the foot of the Bo Tree by armed persons who came in heavy vehicles in the curfew hours is another.
	www.disappearances.org /mainfile.php/frep_sl_western/42 (1714 words)

	Focus on a Centre - Tara Institute
		Their spiritual adviser and teacher, Venerable Bhikku Bodhi, is from the Forest Hermitage, Kandy, Sri Lanka and their advisers in practice include an impressive list of local and interstate Sangha.
		Bhikku Bodhi is one of the most accomplished meditators, practice teachers and one of the finest of people who, perhaps, you could think of as a Buddhist monk.
		Some of these monks - like Bhikku Bodhi who carries a Ph.D. from the United States - have such a good knowledge of English that they are able to go into the depths of the Pali texts and come out with the right terminology.
	www.ordinarymind.net /Focus/focus_july2002.htm (2003 words)

	Ananda Buddha Vihara
		The Vihara was named after late Venerable Ananda Mitra Mahathera, Sangha Nayaka of all India Bhikku Sangha, under whose inspiration and guidance the Vihara has become the Epicenter of the Buddhist activity from the heart of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, bringing into its ambience other Buddhist centers in the State.
		Venerable K. Sangha Rakshita Mahathera, who is none other than the disciple of Venerable Ananda Mitra Mahathera, has been most successfully carrying forward his Master`s legacy with the help of the traditional as well as with ever increasing number of devotees and members of the public from all over the State.
		Bhikku Panya Tiloka and the Chittagong Buddhist Association in Yangoon about the Vihara Project, which made them pledge to make Buddha’s statue as per the specifications at free of cost.
	www.buddhavihara.in /aboutus.htm (984 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The National Bhikku Front has paid tribute to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga for speaking out against the NGOs which are exploiting Sri Lanka.
		Addressing a ceremony at the Thawalama Vidyaraja Vidyalaya, the President had said there were NGOs in the country who earned their dollars over the corpses of those who died in the tsunami.
		She had said that steps would be taken to investigate the dealings of such NGOs.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/02/26/new12.html (670 words)

	Buddhist Marriage - Bhikku Sunanda
		Born in Nepal, Bhikku Sunanda Putuwar is presently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. Ordained as a Buddhist monk/Venerable (Bhikku) in the Theravada tradition in 1972, he received degree in philosophy from Mahamakut Buddhist university in Bangkok, Thailand, and Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India.
		For more than fifteen years Bhikku Sunanda has lectured on Buddhism on both the university and secondary school levels in many languages, including English and Thai.
		The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, born in the sixth century B.C., lived as a prince in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, near northwest India.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1986/september/Sa11625.htm (364 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Quoting the Kalama Sutta during a discussion. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Conclusive proof that Thanissaro Bhikku's translation is a distortion of Buddhist teachings.
		Thanissaro Bhikku is sincere, but by his choice of translation he is perpetuating that lie.
		DeGraff became Thanissaro Bhikku, a Buddhist monk at the Metta Forest Monastery in northern San Diego County.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=21721 (3662 words)

	Tricycle Oct. 1993
		There are still fully ordained monks in the Tibetan traditions but to be frank, that is not where the power lies, it lies within the tulka system, where spiritual authority is conferred at birth, and with the sectarian hierarchies based upon that system.
		Likewise in Japan where the bhikku sangha has ceased to exist and again you have, more or less, a secular priesthood.
		It's easy to blame the Asian models as being inappropriate to the West, but when you look deeper you see that those models are perhaps inappropriate because they reflect a model of society in which an elite is allowed a degree of privilege, a degree of freedom from accountability that the majority is not.
	www.dharma.org /teachers/sharon/interviews/ss_tricycle_interview.htm (1432 words)

	Sri Lanka - The Buddhist Community
		The bhikku should rest in one place for an extended period only during the rainy season, when groups of mendicants may stay together in communal houses (vihara).
		Elaborate rules evolved for admitting novices to the monastic community and conferring ordination on bhikku who passed through a period of initiation and training.
		The strict organization of the monastic order created a solid basis for the preservation of the Buddha's message and a readily adaptable institution that was transplanted in a variety of social environments throughout Asia.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-13187.html (702 words)

	Flickr: bhikku
		Bhikku makes me long for quiet moments in fields, deserted greenhouses, and faded lounge chairs on the beach.
		His photos are secret glimpses into where I would be, given half a chance to escape from this dull and tedious world on the other side of his camera."
		In fact, the more you say his name, the more Bhikku is himself saturated with sense and meaning until both weigh down on him like a yoke of molasses and dark matter.
	www.flickr.com /people/bhikku (246 words)

	News at Tipitaka Network
		May 27 marks the birth centenary of the late Venerable Buddhadasa Bhikku, the founder of Suan Mokkh or the Garden of Liberation.
		It is not simply that Buddhadasa Bhikku was humble and shunned the idea of celebrity status, but the renunciation of such rituals and idolising stood at the very heart of his teaching.
		In one of his most famous books, "Handbook for Humankind", Buddhadasa heavily criticised a major pillar of Thai Buddhism - the making of merit at temples in the hope of bettering one's present life, or improved standing in a perceived future life - as contradictory to the Buddha's teaching.
	www.tipitaka.net /community/news.php?page=060604a (1329 words)

	Buddhist monks to contest Lanka elections -DAWN - International; 18 February, 2004
		The National Bhikku Council said on Tuesday that they would be vying for places in the 225-member assembly through the Jathika Hela Urumaya (the National Heritage Party).
		Parliament must become a place where their aspirations could be realized.
		With that objective in mind we have decided to contest elections", Reverend Athuraliye Rathana, a spokesman for the Bhikku Council, said.
	www.dawn.com /2004/02/18/int9.htm (180 words)

	Sri Lanka POLITICS:: Bhikku U`grads protest against corrupt officials
		Sri Lanka POLITICS:: Bhikku U`grads protest against corrupt officials
		Bhikku undergraduates, of the Buddhist and Pali University, yesterday protested against the University administration`s delay to punish corrupt officials.
		19-1-2005 Bhikku Peramuna condemns bishop`s Tiger flag interpretation
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2006/5/7131.html (276 words)

	waij.com: a thinker's note book
		Bhikku Nanamoli (Osbert Moore) was born in England in 1905, served in Italy during the second world war and went to Sri Lanka in 1949 to become a buddhist monk.
		He is known for his translations of Pali texts into English.
		From this I draw the conclusion that there must be other parallels as well.
	www.waij.com /oldbooks/thinkersnotebook.html (143 words)

	Alms Round at Shasta Abbey
		According to Buddhist teacher Thanissaro Bhikku, the alms round reminds a monk "that their practice is not just an individual matter, but a concern of the whole community.
		They are indebted to others for the right and opportunity to practice, and should do their best to practice diligently as a way of repaying the debt."
		For the giver, Bhikku says, "the alms round is a reminder that the monetary system economy is not the only way to happiness."
	www.urbandharma.org /udharma6/shastalms.html (306 words)

	Newsletter
		For me, Buddhadasa Bhikku has been one of the clearest and most enlightened of contemprary monks.
		He left a huge body of work, most of it concerned with clearing away the mis-conceptions surrounding the Buddha`s teachings.
		And though her site is somewhat confusing in structure, I recommend it absolutely.
	www.surreal.com.au /newsposted/displayYourNB.asp?OID=413 (2275 words)

	Sri Lanka POLITICS:: Bhikku student allegedly ragged by seniors
		A newly admitted Bhikku student of Mihintale Raja Rata University who had been allegedly ragged inhumanly by four senior Bhikku students was admitted to the Anuradhapura General hospital in a serious condition.
		The victim, Diyabeduma Ratanasara Thera (29) said that senior Bhikku students forcibly removed his robes and treated him inhumanly inspite of informing them that he was a diabetic patient.
		On Friday (30) he had been taken to a room by the four senior Bhikku students together with another new-comer and had been harassed inhumanly.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2005/8/3351.html (851 words)

	Perpetual Folly: March 2006
		We followed the path down the hill, Bhikku did his thing, and then zoom, he took off, and deer zipped across the path headed uphill and Bhikku took a sharp left and followed.
		But for the moment, when Bhikku and I take our daily walk into the pasture and down the hill to the creek, we're still unimpeded by the dense growth that I know will slow us down in just a few weeks.
		And Bhikku easily moves from one to the other, by ducking under bushes, across streams, up steep embankments, as if we're in a huge maze and only he has unlocked its secrets.
	perpetualfolly.blogspot.com /2006_03_01_perpetualfolly_archive.html (6144 words)

	www.myspace.com/notaduck
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		My name is John, but those who know me well call me Bhikku - that's "Bee-koo." I've also been known as Duckie, back east, not to mention a handful of other nicknames scattered across the country.
		So I moved across the country a few years ago, to Washington, and for love.
	www.myspace.com /notaduck (739 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Buddhadasa Bhikku On Rebirth! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Therefore, whenever one encounters the word "birth," one must be very careful to understand its meaning in each particular context."
		This comes from a text of Buddhadasa Bhikku
		I agree with Buddhadasa Bhikku, I agree with Imago, but I have a concern about what you are trying to do.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=6870 (938 words)

	Political (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		National Bhikku Front to support PM WIJAYASIRI in Kandy
		He made that revelation at a well attended meeting of National Bhikku Front held at the postal complex auditorium in Kandy, on 'the way the nation should take'.
		Dambara Amila Thera added that unlike UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse could be introduced as a national leader who had a very good knowledge and understanding on national thinking who would not come foward to sell out the country.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/09/05/pol11.htm (306 words)

	SiberNews - Don’t mollycoddle LTTE, says National Bhikku Front
		Sri Lanka: Don’t mollycoddle LTTE, says National Bhikku Front
		The National Bhikku Front (NBF) yesterday said though the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was lucky enough to manage a narrow escape as the LTTE lost its target, the incident itself is a clear message for his brother President Mahinda Rajapaksa not to mollycoddle LTTE.
		Dambara Amila Thera said President Rajapaksa should take this assassination attempt with due weight and should not repeat mistakes committed by former President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
	www.sibernews.com /news/sri-lanka/-200612026913 (760 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Bidar News : Many Dalits to convert to Buddhism
		Buddhist monks from around the country will participate.
		Bhikku Arya Nagarjun Sureyi Sasai of Nagpur, Bhikku Dhamma Rakkhita of Mysore, Bhikku Dhammananda, Bhikku Sariputra, Bhikku Nagaghosha, Bhikku Vinay Keerti, Bhikku Sanganada and Bhikku Shraddha Bodhi will deliver religious lectures.
		Buddhist writer Buddha Gosh Devendra Hegde, Republican Party of India MP Ramdas Athawale, Bidar MP Narsingrao Suryavanshi, Karnataka State Dalit Sangharsh Samiti president D.G. Sagar, State convener Malleshi Sajjan, district convener Maruti Bouddhe, zilla panchayat members Suresh Sindhe, Kushal Rao Yaba, and taluk panchayat member Prakash Kyada will participate, according to a release.
	www.hindu.com /2006/10/26/stories/2006102604070300.htm (186 words)

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