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	BODHI VAMSA - LoveToKnow Article on BODHI VAMSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		of Ceylon about A.D. It is an adaptation of a previously existing work in Sinhalese on the same subject, and describes the bringing of a branch of the celebrated Bo or Bodhi tree (i.e.
		Wisdom Tree, under which the Buddha had attained wisdom) to Ceylon in the 3rd century B.C. The Bodhi Vamsa quotes verses from the Mahavamsa, but draws a great deal of its material from other sources; and it has occasionally preserved details of the older tradition not found in any other sources known to us.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BO/BODHI_VAMSA.htm (1554 words)

	A Buddhist Dictionary
		bodhi (from verbal root budhi, to awaken, to understand): awakenment, enlightenment, supreme knowledge.
		As to (2), the commentaries quote Cula-Nidesa where bodhi is defined as the knowledge relating to the 4 paths (of Stream-entry, etc.; catúsu maggesu ñána).
		Neither in the canonical texts nor in the old commentaries is it stated that a follower of the Buddha may choose between the three kinds of enlightenment and aspire either to become a Buddha, a Pacceka-Buddha, or an Arahat-disciple.
	www.urbandharma.org /udharma2/dictionary/bd5.html (2310 words)

	bodhi tree - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about bodhi tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is the tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment, where he preached his first sermon and set the wheel of dharma (religious teachings) in motion.
		A bodhi tree is often planted outside a Buddhist pagoda.
		During the Theravāda Buddhist festival of Wesak, the bodhi tree is watered in commemoration of the Buddha's enlightenment.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bodhi+tree (125 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Sabaragamu ‘Vamsa Katha’ is in depth encyclopaedia with statistics, diagrams, illustrations and photographs of places such as Maduwanwela Walauwa, the Bata Domba cave and Waulpana cave.
		Pre-history and written history of the province the number of electorates and pradeshiya sabha, the population census of 2001, water falls, rivers, land area crops, temples, Kovils, devala and other places of worship customs and traditions, landmarks, tales and legends, education and health services, are recorded.
		Another interesting bit of information, I gleaned from this ‘Vamsa Katha’ is the probable location of Diva Guha, one of the "Solosmasthana" or 16 sacred places of worship, where the Buddha is said to have made brief stops on his third visit to the island.
	mahavansa.blogspot.com /2004_10_01_mahavansa_archive.html (14435 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is the bringing of the Bodhi bough that has captured and got impressed in folk memory.
		But the main purpose of Theri Sanghamitta's coming to Lanka, as the country was known then, was to ordain Sinhala women who wished to join the bhikkhuni order.
		The princess and all the court ladies who had followed her to the Upasika vihara were ordained after the ceremonial planting of the Bodhi bough on the site where it stands to this day.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2003/12/07/fea04.html (1636 words)

	Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery - News and Retreat Schedule 2006
		Please not: All teachings at Bodhi Tree are free as no charge or suggested donation is made for the Buddha's Dharma.
		We have made cuttings with the hope to eventually propagate a mandala of bodhi trees on the property.
		Pannya recently moved to the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery and Retreat Centre in Northern NSW as the resident teaching monk.
	buddhanet.net /bodhi-tree/news.html (840 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On the arrival of Sangamitta with the Bodhi tree, the author of Mahavamsa exaggerating his great attachment to the Bodhi tree hints at the jealousy of Asoka's second queen Tissarakkha, and her plans to destroy the tree.
		The king taught the Bodhi tree should not even be injured with a knife.
		Subsequently when the great Bodhi tree was thus established for the welfare of the islanders Anula with her company ordination from Therini Sangamitta and attained Arahathood.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/06/01/fea05.html (1568 words)

	Index of Suttas
		Bodhi Sutta: Awakening (1) (Ud I.1) [Ireland
		Bodhi Sutta: Awakening (2) (Ud I.2) [Ireland
		Bodhi Sutta: Awakening (3) (Ud I.3) [Ireland
	www.accesstoinsight.org /index-sutta.html (3625 words)

	The Hindu : Primer on Buddhism
		The two sacred texts Buddha Vamsa and Jataka chronicle the lives of all the Buddhas, narrating in greater detail the life of the last and famous Buddha.
		Gautama Siddhartha's birth to Suddhodana and Mahamaya, his marriage to Yasodara and begetting Rahul, his encounters with old age, sickness and death, his renunciation and deserting his wife and child are all elaborated in the book, and these are only too well-known.
		Gautama's subsequent wandering life, embarking on meditation, asceticism and then his attaining enlightenment under the Bodhi (peepul) tree in Bodh Gaya at the age of 35 are also well recorded in sufficient detail.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/10/16/stories/1316017b.htm (818 words)

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		With a number of similes he exalts the sutra and enjoins the faithful to erect stupas at the site where this sutra would be delivered and to honour it with the same devotion they would bestow on a caitya housing the Buddha’s relics.
		In the next two chapters, it is said that the length of life of the Buddhas is unlimited and that this might not be believed by all, particularly by the Hinayanists who hold that the Buddha attained bodhi at Gaya and lived for forty years after his emancipation.
		It opens with an account of the Buddha’s life from the day he attained bodhi on the bank of the Niranjana and carries the story up to the conversion of Yasa and his fifty-four friends including Vimala, Subahu, Punnaji and Gavampati who were dispatched in different directions to preach the Dharma.
	www.quangduc.com /English/history/032500years07.html (11125 words)

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		Sântideva's Bodhisattva, when conceiving the thought of Bodhi or eventual supreme enlightenment to be obtained, it may be, only after numberless births, feels first a sympathetic joy in the good actions of all living beings.
		He addresses to the Buddhas a prayer which is not a mere act of commemoration, but a request to preach the law and to defer their entrance into Nirvana.
		This is his bodhi tree under which he will obtain enlightenment as Sâkyamuni under the _Ficus religiosa_.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16546/16546-8.txt (18912 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		B.C. Law), says: "Listen to me! I shall recite the story of the Buddha's visits to the island, the arrival of the Tooth Relic and the Bodhi Tree, the advent of Buddhism in the island, and of the doctrine of the Teachers as well as the chief of men (Buddha)".
		According to Dipavamsa, when Buddha last visited the island, the four places he visited were Kelaniya, Dighavapi, Mahameghavanaramaya and the spot where the Maha Thupa (Ruvanweliseya) was later built by king Dutugemunu.
		The Mahavamsa mentions the places as Kelaniya, Dighavapi, Mahameghavanaramaya, and the spots where later the Maha Bodhi Tree was planted, the Maha Thupa was built and places where the Thuparama and Sela cetiya were later built.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/05/12/artscop11.html (695 words)

	BODHI VAMSA - Online Information article about BODHI VAMSA
		BODHI VAMSA - Online Information article about BODHI VAMSA
		Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ.
		century B.C. The Bodhi Vamsa quotes verses from the Mahavamsa, but draws a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BODHI_VAMSA.html (234 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among them are the Arahant Upagutta Shrine in a fish pond, the 230-year-old well, a Bodhi tree and sculptures of the Burmese Garuda (mythical bird), Panca-Rupa world protector and Burmese Naga (dragon).
		A favourite among the visitors is the colourful wall mural illustrating the Great Renunciation of Prince Sid-dhattha.
		For example, visitors who manage to throw a coin into the prosperity bowl are believed to receive that blessing.
	www.buddhistnews.tv /current/dhammikarama-230403.php (661 words)

	Newsletter - 2/17/04 - Buddhism in Vietnam
		During his subsequent visits in the 1950s and 1960s, he attracted a large number of Buddhists to the Theravada tradition, one of whom was the popular translator, Mr Pham Kim Khanh who took the Dhamma name of Sunanda.
		Even though this is a considerable portion of Vietnam, the severity of weather and limited area for agriculture limited the size of the population to about two and a half million at its height.
		The Narikel Vamsa primarily ruled the Northern regions of the kingdom, the Kramuk Vamsa centered in the South.
	www.urbandharma.org /udnl2/nl021704.html (5844 words)

	SriLankatruth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At this juncture it is also interesting to note that the earliest occurrence of the form Sinhala which later denoted linguistic / ethnic group is in the Depa vamsa which is dated to 4 th century AD.
		The sapling of the Bodhi tree was planted here and Jambukola Vhara and Tissamahavihara were built by the king.
		It is true that the Bodhi tree landed have at Jampukolapatnam, in the Jaffna peninsula and so also Buddhist stupas were built in Kantarodai, Vallipuram, and other places.
	www.srilankatruth.com /TamilHomeLand/TamilHomeLand.html (5818 words)

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		At the young age of sixteen, as was the ancient custom then in vogue, he was married to his beautiful cousin Princess Yasodhara, the daughter of King Suppabuddha and Queen Pamita who was the sister of King Suddhodana.
		Among those who were of the same age as Prince Siddhattha were:- Princess Yasodhara (Badda Kaccana); Ananda, son of King Amitodana; Kaludayi, a minister; Channa, also another minister; the Bodhi tree; horse Kanthaka and the appearance of four Jars of Gold at the palace.
		The Buddha spent the second week, standing and gazing with motionless eyes at the Bodhi Tree and the Throne as a mark of gratitude.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /buddhism/dawn_01.htm (9905 words)

	Sixth Chapter, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Having realized Bodhi, while dwelling in that Buddha-land, you will adorn sentient beings with merits, wisdom, and all the roots of good.
		Such beings will come to be born in your land, no longer [636c] believe in gods, and become free of the fear of evil realms.
		The four great kingdoms, Kashi, Kosala, Vamsa, and Malla, are protected and sustained by the Heavenly King Dhrtarastra, surrounded by a host of gandharvas.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /pureland/sixth_chapter,_part_2.htm (11522 words)

	lay authors / authors.htm
		Came to Burma as a guest of the Union Buddha Sasana Council and was ordained a bhikkhu at Ashin Adicca Vamsa Kyaungdaik, Rangoon, on Sunday the 22nd February 1953 under the leadership of Ven'ble U Thittila, well-known for his long Dhammaduta work in the West.
		He was an English man, born in 1910 in London during World War I. Educated privately.
		After the war lived in India as voluntary worker for the Maha Bodhi Society, of which he was a Life Member.
	www.buddhism.ndirect.co.uk /authors.htm (1273 words)

	Kataragama's Holistic Orientation: An example of Oriental Cosmography
		Yet another example of veneration toward the vertical world axis is the survival to this day of the very archaic cult of tree worship in Kataragama.
		Like the ritual of the Christmas of Santa Claus/Father Xmas tree that was grafted onto Christianity from older pagan sources, the ritual of the bodhi puja is far older than Buddhism itself.
		The ancient origin of this form of tree worship is amply illustrated in that an integral part of the once-weekly bodhi puja is the offering of water to the tree spirit and wild game to the god of the hunt by the kapuralas and alatti ammas who perform it.
	kataragama.org /research/cosmography.htm (8580 words)

	Mahavamsa, Einleitung
		I will celebrate the dynasties (vamsa) perpetuated from generation to generation ; illustrious from the commencement and lauded by many bards ; like unto a garland strung with every variety of flowers ".
		The book Saddhamma-vamsa gives the names of eight historians and rhapsodists among a list of seventy-two nuns who taught the Dhamma and the Vinaya.
		I take it as almost certain that, in the reign of Gemunu, Sumanâ taught the vamsa for the first time among the nuns.
	www.payer.de /mahavamsa/chronik001.htm (6830 words)

	The Collected Works of Shinran Major Expositions KGSS VI : 81-90 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The four great kingdoms of Anga-Magadha, Vangamagadha, Avanti, and Ceti are surrounded by King Vaisravana and a host of yaksas, who protect and sustain them.
		Evil ones in hordes, taking skulls in their hands and staining their palms with blood, slay one another.
		Among such evil sentient beings, I now appear in the world and attain perfect enlightenment beneath the bodhi tree.
	www.shinranworks.com /majorexpositions/kgssVI-81_90.htm (4573 words)

	Radhika - Life of Buddha
		It is said in the Anagata Vamsa that the next Buddha, Maithreya, will make a similar announcement at His birth.
		In the second week He paid respect to the Tree that had given Him shade during His long struggle for enlightenment, by standing at attention and gazing motionless at it.
		The Tree is now known as the Bodhi Tree: The Tree of Knowledge.
	www.saigon.com /~anson/ebud/ebdha165.htm (6675 words)

	Myanmar News 2002
		At the auspicious time, the Vice-Senior General, together with Lt-Gen Aung Htwe, Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo and Commander Brig-Gen Khin Maung Myint, erected the pivot and sprinkled scented water on it.
		Members of the Sangha recited Jayanto Bodhi Yamule Gatha three times and Staff Officer U Thura of Religious Affairs Department shared merits gained.
		After recitation of Buddha Sasanam ‚iram Titthatu three times, the silver conch shells were blown and the gongs were beaten.
	www.myanmars.net /NEWVER/myanmar-news-2002/n021118.htm (3620 words)

	BIRMINGHAM BUDDHIST VIHARA Newsletter / bvnl98s.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He said that it is a great achievement for us to build a Pagoda and a Vihara in a foreign land.
		However work is still proceeding, including the completion of a beautiful painting, by our artist Win Tin, of the Buddha sitting in meditation under the Bodhi Tree; this painting covers the entire wall behind the main Buddha statue.
		We have also fitted perspex at each side of' the entrance to the Pagoda, to act as a windbreak and to keep the tiled floor and the area for shoes dry.
	www.triplegem.plus.com /bvnl98s.htm (17336 words)

	Palm leaf book : Mahabodhi-vamsa
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		This work tells the story of the arrival in Sri Lanka of a cutting from the Bodhi or Bo-tree, the tree beneath which the Buddha experienced enlightenment in Eastern India.
		The text is in Pali, the language of Buddhism, and is written in Sinhalese script on pages made from palm leaves.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /exhibitions/treasures/RBRI14475601_4.htm (277 words)

	PressEsc - Sri Lanka: Child recruiting Tamil rebels happy to see new UNICEF chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The so called 2500 year history (maha vamsa) is written only 1400 years ago.
		The sri maha bodhi was taken to Anuradhapura on a foot trail from Jaffna.
		There are no records of a Tamil king in Jaffna when this was done arahath Mahinda’s sister.
	unspun.mithuro.com /content/view/258/43 (5669 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Prime Minister, committed to the task of solving the ethnic problem and achieving the long-desired permanent peace, has come into power in Sri Lanka.
		According to our ancient chronicles, Maha Vamsa, Dipa Vamsa, Samantipasadika etc., it was on a full moon day in Duruthu over two thousand five hundred and forty five years ago that Shakyamuni Gotama the Buddha made His first ever visit to Lanka bringing peace to this blessed island of ours.
		Is this mere coincidence or something to reckon with?By then nine months had elapsed since Buddha attained Supreme Buddhahood.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/01/28/fea10.html (2966 words)

	Chapter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		vamsa if we were to translate these expressions always by
		bodhi L, the original yuvaraja, had died before him.
		cording to the legend, the Bodhi Tree in the Maha?ihara at Anuradha-
	lakdiva.org /culavamsa/vol_2.html (15122 words)

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		\EN{6}{021}{11} \\ sa no\' bodhi purae\`taa su\`geShuu\`ta du\`rgeShu\' pathi\`kR^id vidaa\'naH \\ ye ashra\'maasa u\`ravo\` vahi\'ShThaa\`s tebhi\'r na indraa\`bhi va\'kShi\` vaaja\'m
		\EN{6}{023}{06} \\ sa no\' bodhi puro\`LaashaM\` raraa\'NaH\` pibaa\` tu somaM\` goR^i\'jiikam indra \\ edam ba\`rhir yaja\'maanasya siido\`ruM kR^i\'dhi tvaaya\`ta u\'lo\`kam
		\EN{6}{046}{03} \\ baadha\'se\` janaa\'n vR^iSha\`bheva\' ma\`nyunaa\` ghR^iShau\' mii\`Lha R^i\'ciiShama \\ a\`smaaka\'m bodhy avi\`taa ma\'haadha\`ne ta\`nuuShv a\`psu suurye\'
	www.ms.uky.edu /~sohum/sanskrit/rigveda/R06.itx (14642 words)

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