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	Maha Bodhi Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maha Bodhi Society has a robust tradition of publications, spanning from Pali translations into modern Indian vernacular languages (such as Hindi) to scholarly texts and new editions of Pali works typeset in Devanagari to appeal to a Hindi-educated Indian audience.
		As of 2003, the Maha Bodhi Society of India's general secretary is Dombagoda Rewatha Thero.
		There is also a Maha Bodhi Society of Bangalore, founded by Acharya Buddharakkhita in 1956, which is not a part of or tied to the Maha Bodhi Society of India or Sri Lanka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maha_Bodhi_Society (282 words)

	Maha Bodhi Society -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Maha Bodhi Society branches have been established in several countries, most significantly in India and Sri Lanka.
		As of (additional info and facts about 2003) 2003, the Maha Bodhi Society of India's general secretary is Dombagoda Rewatha Thero.
		There is also a Maha Bodhi Society of (An industrial city in south central India (west of Chennai)) Bangalore, founded by Acharya Buddharakkhita in 1956, which is not a part of or tied to the Maha Bodhi Society of India or Sri Lanka.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maha_bodhi_society.htm (352 words)

	Buddhism Today - Dda.o Pha^.t Nga`y Nay, default page-english
		In May, 1892, the society launched its organ The Maha Bodhi which was to be used as an Instrument for the propagation of Dharma not only In India but also in all the countries of the World.
		Society was presented in 1920 with a casket containing the relics of Bones of Lord Buddha which were to be enshrined in the Vihara.
		Mulagandha Kuti-Vihara was built in Sarnath in 1931 with the subsequent establishment of Maha Bodhi Vidyalaya, the V1hara Library, the Maha Bodhi Free Dispensary, the Maha Bodhi Primary School and the Teachers Training College, and Samath once again became a centre of Buddhism now.
	www.buddhismtoday.com /english/world/country/003-india2.htm (1006 words)

	Anagarika Dharmapala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were both very sympathetic to what they understood of Buddhism, and in 1880 they arrived in Ceylon, declared themselves to be Buddhists, and publicly took the Refuges and Precepts from a prominent Sinhalese bhikkhu.
		Meanwhile, Dharmapala founded the Maha Bodhi Society to help him in his work.
		A natural extension of this work was to set up, in 1892, the Maha Bodhi Journal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anagarika_Dharmapala (721 words)

	Search Results for maha - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Maha Sarakham is located at a road junction on a bend of the Chi River.
		The society was founded in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1891 by Anagarika Dharmapala; one of its original goals...
		The city is the birthplace of modern Indian literary and artistic thought and of Indian nationalism, and the efforts of its citizens to...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=maha&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (347 words)

	Venerable Narada Maha Thera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But for the Maha Sangha of this country who committed the Dhamma to writing and kept the Flame of the Dhamma burning under all vicissitudes and all adverse conditions, it is doubtful whether Theravada Buddhism would have become a World Religion as it is today.
		It is to this lineage of the Buddha Putras that Venerable Narada Maha Thera, the former Superior of Vajirarama, belongs.
		The Maha Bodhi Society under the leadership of the Anagarika Dhammapala had been agitating and litigating for the return of the shrine to the Buddhists, its rightful owners.
	www.buddhistvihara.com /newsletters/2003-winter/narada_maha_thera.htm (1963 words)

	Current Affairs
		The President was received at the main entrance to the Maha Bodhi Temple by officials and members of the Buddha Gaya Temple, the Maha Bodhi Temple and officials of the Gaya administration.
		She was then taken to the Sri Maha Bodhi Tree, under which the Buddha attained enlightenment and Vajrasana Complex where he performed his penance.
		President Kumaratunga called on the seven places in the Maha Bodhi Temple Complex, where the Buddha is said to have spent seven weeks after attaining enlightenment and to the newly constructed meditation park adjacent to the Temple Complex.
	www.priu.gov.lk /news_update/Current_Affairs/ca200411/20041108president_buddha_gaya.htm (344 words)

	Maha Bodhi Society Bangalore India
		This tree is as old as the Society and is an object of devotion.
		The Society has constructed a two-storied building and handed it over to the government to house and treat the patients of burns and other casualties.
		The Maha Bodhi World Peace Buddha Temple is a replica of the famous Bodhgaya Temple built by Emperor Ashoka over 2300 years ago.
	education.vsnl.com /mahabodhi (758 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Maha Bodhi Society of India to celebrate 2,550th Buddha Jayanthi in 2006 : Tripitaka to be published in Hindi
		The 2,550th Buddha Jayanthi falls on May, Vesak Poya Day of 2006 and the Maha Bodhi Society of India founded in 1891 by Anagarika Dharmapala has made elaborate plans to commemorate this event of great significance to Buddhism and Buddhists all over the world.
		In addition, the Maha Bodhi Society of India is now taking steps for the translation and publication of Tripitaka in Hindi in collaboration with the Governments of India and Sri Lanka.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/04/23/fea03.htm (3464 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Buddhist temples and organisations across the country affiliated to the Maha Bodhi Society of India have made arrangements to commemorate the 140th birth anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala on 17th September with religious performances and public meetings.
		The Maha Bodhi Society of Sri Lanka at its centres in Chennai and Sanchi will perform a special pooja to bestow merits on late Anagarika Dharmapala.
		Rastrapal Maha Thera, President of the Maha Bodhi Society of India in the chair, Prof.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/09/17/new40.html (320 words)

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		As a Buddhist monk, directly affiliated to Maha Bodhi Society, and thinking of its past, present and the future, and with due respect to the aspirations and expectations of the Late Ven.
		Dhammapala who founded the Maha Bodhi Society of India and revived the status of Buddha Gaya at the end of the 19th century, Buddhism needs to reach out and provide an opportunity to the global community to practice the sublime Teachings of the Buddha.
		Anagarika Dhammapala, I have arranged for a conference to be held under the Sri Maha Bodhi Tree at Buddha Gaya on November 5, 2000.
	www.geocities.com /maha_bodhi_2000 (1210 words)

	Buddhism Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He founded the Mahabodhi Society in 1891, with a view to restoring the sacred places, revive Buddhism in the land of its birth and propagate it in other parts of the world.
		The Maha Bodhi Society helps in providing accommodation both to Sri Lankans and other visiting pilgrims from world over both in their old and new buildings.
		It was only due to the late Anagarika and the Maha Bodhi Society, that the Western world came to know of Buddhism and Buddha Gaya and each year pilgrims in large numbers come here to pay their homage and reverence to the Enlightened One.
	www.geocities.com /buddha_gaya (2598 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		New Delhi, India -- The Sri Maha Bodhi Temple at Buddha Gaya erected in the very place where Prince Siddharta attained Enlightenment or Buddhahood will be dedicated as a World Heritage Site on the 19th of February at an official ceremony attended by around 2,000 Buddhist delegates from all over the world.
		Known in history as Maha Bodhi Maha Vihara, the monument is one of the 84,000 temples, stupas and other structures built by Emperor Asoka about 218 years after the Maha Parinirvana of the Buddha.
		For the very purpose he established the Maha Bodhi Society and making it the front vehicle, he fought a legal battle which is now known as the famous Buddhagaya case.
	www.buddhistnews.tv /current/mahabodhi-170204.php (327 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Buddha Vihara in Egmore, Chennai Center of Maha Bodhi Society is his 'Brain Child' and a good model Buddhist Temple, constructed in a non-Buddhist environment.
		During his tenure in the capacity of chief incumbent of Chennai Maha Bodhi Center our beloved Nayaka Thera constructed three storeyed building in which there are a shrineroom and stupa.
		Free Homeopathic Clinic at the Chennai Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society is also an example of his compassion towards the poor suffering people.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2002/05/05/fea23.html (619 words)

	About the Ottawa Buddhist Society
		All who support the Society and its objectives are welcome to Society events, and to become members.
		The OBS focuses primarily on Buddhist teachings in the Theravada tradition as practiced in the forest monasteries of Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma.
		Bhante Gunaratana is now the abbot of the Bhavana Society monastery and retreat center in the Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia, about 100 miles west of Washington, DC.
	www.ottawabuddhistsociety.com /AboutheOBS/about.html (921 words)

	Current activities of the 17th Karmapa - the Karmapa website
		His Holiness was guest of honor at a Maha Bodhi Society celebration of the 138th Anniversary of the birth of Anagarika Dharmapala on September 17, 2002.
		Founded by Anagarika Dharmapala in 1891, the Maha Bodhi Society in Calcutta was established in 1915.
		Through the Maha Bodhi Society, he won government sanction for the recognition of the Maha Bodhi Temple as the site where the Buddha attained enlightenment.
	www.kagyuoffice.org /karmapa.currentactivities2002.html (1602 words)

	Maha Bodhi School Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Maha Bodhi School Project began in started began in started 1990 to provide education to the poor and the needy of Bodhgaya.
		The students come to the Maha Bodhi Center and will be moving to a partially constructed school with work remaining incomplete due to financial restraints.
		Hence, they enroll their wards in the Maha Bodhi because they get free education and a decent one at that.
	www.mahabodhischoolproject.com (363 words)

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		The next day I visited the Maha Bodhi Temple, saw the Bodhi tree, visited the Tibetan Monastery, and then departed by bus for Nalanda, which is some six kilometers from Bodh Gaya.
		Madam L. Nehru, the Aunt of the President, was chairwoman of the Society, and was present, as was the Vietnamese General Consul.
		I found later that a certain Maha Thera living in Vietnam had visited her, and told her that there was no oppression of Buddhists in the country.
	www.hawaiian.net /~dsparks/vnch1-5.html (8576 words)

	Global Buddhism: Developmental Periods, Regional Histories, and a New Analytical Perspective
		The appeal of Indian spirituality was strengthened by the intervention of the Theosophical Society, which was founded by the flamboyant Madame Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) and the American Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) in 1875 in New York.
		The society's aims were (and still are) the study of Buddhist texts preserved in the Paali language and the distribution of such texts in scholarly editions and translations.
		In Europe, the Indologist Karl Seidenstücker (1876-1936) established the Society for the Buddhist Mission in Germany in 1903 in Leipzig.
	www.globalbuddhism.org /2/baumann001.html (14809 words)

	Great buddhists of the 20th century
		For fourteen of those years he was editor of the Maha Bodhi, journal of the Maha Bodhi Society of India founded by Anagarika Dharmapala.
		The fortunes of Buddhism in Sri Lanka began to change in 1880 with the arrival of the Theosophical movement, a society which had been founded in New York in 1875 by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott.
		In 1891 he founded the Maha Bodhi Society to help him in his work, initially with the restoration of Buddhagaya and also with the spreading of Buddhism throughout the world.
	www.lankaweb.com /dhamma/view2.html (1829 words)

	LankaWeb news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dr. Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera, passed away on 29th October 2000 at the age of 76.
		He was formerly the General Secretary and the President of the Maha Bodhi Society of India.
		Wipulasara Maha Thera there will be a special religious ceremony at the London Vihara on 5th November at 5.00 pm.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items/vipulasara.html (119 words)

	GOSL Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With the establishment of the Maha Bodhi Society, Anagarika Dharmapala, the renowned Buddhist leader, contributed immensely to the renaissance of Buddhism in the sub-continent and particularly the resuscitation of Buddhist places of worship in India.
		The construction and maintenance of several pilgrims’ rests and Buddhist temples managed by the Maha Bodhi Society have made a significant contribution to the provision of social services and spiritual comfort to the Indian people.
		Today the Maha Bodhi Society is multi-national in character, encompassing Buddhists the world over.
	www.presidentsl.org /data/speech/1998/19981228cbk_foundation_stone_sl_pilgrim's_rest_new_delhi.htm (908 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: ANAGARIKA DHARMAPALA
		Just over a century ago there was born a man destined to burn with a desire to spur the people of Sri Lanka with a deep sense of patriotism, nationalism and service.
		In 1886 when Colonel Olcott and C.W. Leadbeater came to Sri Lanka to collect funds for the Buddhist Education Fund Dharmapala was a junior clerk who had already acquired a sound knowledge of English, Sinhalese and Pali and, in addition, had mastered the Buddhist scriptures.
		He founded the Maha Bodhi Society on 31st May, 1891.
	www.lankalibrary.com /cul/anagarika.htm (1234 words)

	The Buddhist Channel \| News - Asia \| Global Centre for Buddhism in Buddha Gaya
		The foundation stone for the building complex is to be laid by the Dalai Lama in presence of leading Buddhist monks from different countries belonging to all schools of Buddhism.
		The steering Committee meeting at the Maha Bodhi Society of India, headquarters in Kolkata was attended by the Society's Vice-Presidents Justice Chittatosh Mukherjee, Justice Bhaghawati Prasad Banerjee, Dr. Amiya Kumar Samantha, former DIG, CID, West Bengal, and Justice Shyamal Sen, Chairman, Human Rights Commission, West Bengal and A.K. Bajuria, Advocate of the Kolkata High Court.
		Amiya Kumar Samantha, a senior vice president of the Society requested to invite the Sri Lankan President attend the 2550th Buddha Jayanthi celebrations in 2006.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=1,1720,0,0,1,0 (259 words)

	Blessingsonthenet.com
		Description : THE MAHA BODHI, founded by Anagarika Dharmapala in 1892 is the only Buddhist journal in India to complete a century.
		The Maha Bodhi journal has played a very significant role in the renaissance of Buddhism in India, and shed valuable light on the rich heritage of the Buddha and Buddhism through.
		It is unique volume presents a perfect Panorama of Indian Buddhism, and its remarkable contribution to the culture and civilization of the land of its birth.
	www.blessingsonthenet.com /publication/getbook.asp?book=SSP115 (184 words)

	Divine Digest - The Guide to Hinduism
		Annavaram is situated in the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, is the temple of Shri Veera Venkata Satya Narayanaswami.
		The idol of Buddha is in a meditating pose under the Bodhi tree, which is equally holy for the pilgrims.
		The Mahobodhi temple is the centre of importance and the Bodhi tree growing here is said to be the outcome of the original Bodhi tree, under which Buddha sat, meditated and achieved enlightenment.
	www.divinedigest.com /gazetteer.htm (15866 words)

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