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In the News (Wed 9 Dec 09)

  
  Mahabodhi Temple
Mahabodhi was claimed by Saivite Hindus for a time, was heavily restored by Sir Alexander Cunningham in the second half of the 19th century, and finally restored by Burmese Buddhists in 1882.
In 1891, the Mahabodhi Society was founded with the aim of reclaiming Bodhgaya and the Mahabodhi temple from Hindu to Buddhist control.
Immediately next to the Mahabodhi Temple is the Bodhi Tree, a descendent of the very tree under which the Buddha was enlightened, and the Jewel Walk, marking the place where the Buddha is said to have practiced walking meditation for seven days after his enlightenment.
www.sacred-destinations.com /india/mahabodhi-temple.htm   (579 words)

  
  BANGLAPEDIA: Mahabodhi Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mahabodhi Society Buddhist organisation, established in Kolkata in May 1892, chapter of the Mahabodhi Society of Sri Lanka, founded by the Sri Lankan scholar, anagarik dharmapal, on 31 May 1891 in Colombo.
The purpose of the Mahabodhi Society was to revive buddhism and improve the condition of Buddhists.
The first president of the society was Sir asutosh mookerjee and its general secretary, Anagarik Dharmapal.
banglapedia.org /HT/M_0044.HTM   (258 words)

  
 Mahabodhi.info
Mahabodhi Society is a charitable organization established in 1956 by Most Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita with sole objective of reviving the precious teachings of the Buddha in the land of its origin, India.
Mahabodhi society Bangalore is dedicated for the welfare and happiness of people irrespective of religion, race, color or sex.
The Mahabodhi Society celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 13th May, 2006 and in commemoration of 50th year of service, the Society has taken another leap by starting The Mahabodhi Academy for Pali & Buddhist Studies which will be upgraded as Mahabodhi Buddhist Open university.
www.mahabodhi.info   (244 words)

  
 Sri Sri Ravishankar talks peace with LTTE
He is a member of the Committee for Peace for Sri Lanka formed by the Mahabodhi Society of India," president of the city-based Society B K Modi said.
Informing that the Mahabodhi Society will be holding a two-day World Buddhist Leaders' Council at Sarnath from December 18 to discuss important issues in resolving conflicts, Modi said the Society's initiatives in Sri Lanka will also come up for discussions at the council.
Recalling that the Mahabodhi Society was founded in the 19th century by a Sri Lankan monk Aanagarika Dhammapala with a view to establishing world peace, Modi said that as such, the society had a role in bringing about peace in Sri Lanka.
www.rediff.com /news/2006/sep/24ltte.htm   (389 words)

  
 Reflections on Mahabodhi Bala
Mahabodhi leaders and laity alike were concerned with the sectarianism that characterised the religious scene in 19th century India and a divisiveness and diversity amoung the Indian people as a whole.
It was this social and religious vacuum that stimulated the rise of the Mahabodhi society along with other religious movements.
Donald H. Bishop wrote of the Mahabodhi society and the Indian renaissance in the 1979 Vaisakha issue of The Maha Bodhi journals.
www.bdcu.org.au /BDDR/bddr12no6/mahabodhi.html   (1487 words)

  
 Mahabodhi Society of India Honours a Tibetan Philanthropist - www.phayul.com
Mahabodhi Society of India Honours a Tibetan Philanthropist - www.phayul.com
Dharamsala, October 7 - According to “Lake of Compassion”, a publication by Mahabodhi Society of India, Ven.
In the publication the Society, while applauding the Tibetan monk for his long record of service to humanity said, "He has completed 80 years of magnificent life in which his only aim has been to tread upon a spiritual path of enlightened compassion."
www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=5182&t=1&c=1   (667 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.
In the Ladakh region of the Himalayas the Ladakh branch of MBS, the Mahabodhi International Meditation Center was founded in 1986 by Ven.
education.vsnl.com /mahabodhi   (758 words)

  
 MAHABODHI: the Buddhist Search Engine and Internet Portal
Welcome to the homepage of the Mahabodhi Maitri Mandala, a non-sectarian Dharma association of the Buddhist Humanist Movement, providing not only professional healthcare advocacy and outreach in Asia, but also mindful living and meditation workshops within the United States and Europe.
A recognized NGO of the United Nations and an associate member of the Mahabodhi Maitri Mandala, the Buddhist Brotherhood Assembly is a pioneering non-sectarian organization that was first established in 1982 in the Chattagong Hills Tracts of Bangladesh with the following objectives:
Sharanananda Bhikkhu is also the exectutive director of the Parbattya Adivashi Unnayan Sanghsta (Indigenous Development Society) and a recipient of the United Nations UNESCO Award for "World Mankind For Peace, Human Rights, and International Understanding".
www.mahabodhi.net   (1087 words)

  
 Shantideva Online ::: Your Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
Welcome to the homepage of the Shantideva Society, a non-sectarian association established by the regents of the Mahabodhi Sunyata Seminario de Espana and the lineage holders of the Chinese Madhyamika tradition in Tarragona, Spain.
Embracing the Bodhisattva Dharma as a means in and of itself, the members of the Shantideva Society are dedicated to the realization of the Bodhisattva spirit as it existed within the early Buddhist community and the development of that spirit through the teachings of Acharya Shantideva, the author of the Bodhicaryavatara.
The Shantideva Society is a recognized NGO of the United Nations under the auspices and charter of the Mahabodhi Sunyata Tierra Pura, participating not only in the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, but also in encouraging and coordinating the effort to secure
www.shantideva.net   (1247 words)

  
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The society traces its origins to 1896 when, under the guidance of Colonel Olcott of the Theosophical Society, the South India Buddhist Association was formed to work for the revival of Buddhishm in south India.
However, today the society plays the role of a catalyst between the small Sinhala community in Chennai and the native Buddhist families, not to speak of Tamils of Sri Lankan origin.
Not only does the society then witness a healthy co-mingling of people of all faiths who come to pay their respects to the Buddha, it also conducts almsgiving ceremony, free medical camps, blood donation camps and dispensaries for the poor.
www.buddhistnews.tv /current/chennai-mahabodhi-110303.php   (600 words)

  
 Singapore DharmaNet Homepage
Mahabodhi Educational Programs - a holistic educational movement - dedicated to the eradication of illiteracy and poverty.
Mahabodhi Bodhkharbu Branch School - dedicated to education of deprived and neglected rural children.
Mahabodhi Home for the Aged and Destitute - devoted to the care and respect of the elderly and destitute.
www.buddha.sg /htm/people/sanghasena.htm   (1056 words)

  
 The Hindu : Spreading love and compassion
An offshoot of the MBS is the Mahabodhi Monastic Institute (MMI) called Sangharama, which was established in 2001 with a few monks as trainees.
The aim of the society is to initiate and sustain programmes of action in conformity with the principles of Buddhism.
It has built the Mahabodhi Burns, Casualty and Emergency Hospital at Victoria Hospital Complex; the Mahabodhi Burns Ward at K.R. Hospital, Mysore; the Mahabodhi Rural Community Hospital and Mental Health Centre at Sakalvara village in Anekal taluk; and Mahabodhi Mallige Hospital, in collaboration with the Mallige centre in Siddapura, Bangalore.
www.hindu.com /lf/2004/05/13/stories/2004051302630200.htm   (426 words)

  
 Conservation news for Mahabodhi
Gaya's fame to the world, the 1,500 year old Mahabodhi Temple, is under the threat of losing its world heritage status after a UNESCO team gave the Bihar...
The head of the Mahabodhi Society, Gyana Ratna, noted that the Pope was loved the world over on account of his religious tolerance.
According to the president of the Mahabodhi Society of India, Dr Bhupendra Kumar Modi, the script is nearing completion at Dharamshala, abode of the Dalai Lama...
conservation.mongabay.com /2005/feb/Mahabodhi.htm   (679 words)

  
 VHP regains lost ground in Bodh Gaya- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Now that Bhupendra Kumar Modi has been elected as the president of the Mahabodhi Society, one of the most influential Buddhist organisations and the society's constitution has been amended, freeing it from the Sri Lankan yoke, the VHP finds itself in a vantage position in Bodh Gaya.
As per the amended constitution of the Mahabodhi Society, the India chapter of the society has become an independent unit and it has no longer to depend on instructions received from the Colombo headquarters of the society.
Modi, the new president of the Mahabodhi Society, has been an active anti-conversion campaigner and he plans to organise a conference on conversions in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/930814.cms   (489 words)

  
 BodhgayaNews
The Mahabodhi Society was founded by the Sri Lankan Buddhist reformer Anagarika Dharmapala in the 1890s.
The Mahabodhi society facilitates access for Sri Lankan pilgrims led by Sri Lankan monks to the temple compound and is, I imagine, interested in maintaining this practice.
The main mosque in Bodhgaya is situated at the South East corner of the Mahabodhi Temple compound and the main graveyard is to the North of the Temple.
www.bodhgayanews.net /editorial.htm   (1250 words)

  
 Archived conservation news articles on Mahabodhi
The Mahabodhi temple is the holiest of the four sacred sites related to Buddha, who was born in Lumbini, Nepal, and is said to have attained enlightenment in...
GAYA : The Mahabodhi Temple, the most sacred Buddhist shrine, was formally dedicated to the "humanity at large" at a function held on the shrine premises...
GAYA - The Mahabodhi Temple, the most sacred Buddhist shrine, was formally dedicated to the "humanity at large" at a function held on the shrine premises...
conservation.mongabay.com /files/Mahabodhi.htm   (1484 words)

  
 Buddhist monk under FERA inquiry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 12: The general secretary of the Mahabodhi Society of India, Dr D Rewatha Thero, and another employee of the Society were issued show cause notices by Enforcement Directorate for allegedly receiving US $ 51,000 and 55 million Japanese Yen in cash towards donations and exchanging the same illegally.
Rewatha, a Sri Lankan national, and general secretary of the Society, and Nandlal Patel, a former servant of the Society at Sarnath, are to reply to the notice within a month.
The Society has sought his explanation as to whether these donations were reflected in the accounts or not.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000213/ina13001.html   (500 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Mahabodhi Society of India will commemorate the 139th birth anniversary of its founder late Anagarika Dharmapala with a public meeting at the Sri Dharmarajika Vihara, Mahabodhi Society Hall at Bankim Chatterjee Street, Calcutta, India on September 17 at 5.30 p.m.
Administrative Secretary of the Mahabodhi Society of India T. Roy said:- Late Anagarika Dharmapala was a shining beacon to the Buddhist World since the late nineteenth century.
He founded the Mahabodhi Society of India in 1891 and made Kolkata his centre of activities.
www.dailynews.lk /2003/09/17/new31.html   (165 words)

  
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At first, the U.S. government tried to spread the Southeast immigrants throughout the country to facilitate their integration into U.S. society, but the people missed the companionship of their own kind and social intercourse in their own languages, compelling them to resettle close together in pockets of different communities.
Since they had sided with the United States during the Vietnam War, many have had to flee from their homeland.
Their adjustment to American society has been the most difficult of all because they came from a preliterate, tribal society.
www.equip.org /free/DB565-2.htm   (4994 words)

  
 The Bodh Gaya Project - Contributions to Bodh Gaya's History
According to local lore in the early 1900's this monument had been erected by Joseph Davidavich Beglar while he was renovating the Mahabodhi temple in 1880-2.
In front of the temple is an iron trellis with a beautifully flowering vine growing in it.
(6) Representations of the Mahabodhi Temple are sometimes depicted on tear-shaped clay sealings that have been found at Bodh Gaya and in several Buddhist countries.
www.buddhanet.net /bodh_gaya/bodh_gaya05.htm   (635 words)

  
 Dhammapada Festival
The Maha Bodhi Society, Bangalore is the premier Buddhist institution in the whole of South India.
Venerable Acharya Buddharakhita established the Society in Bangalore in 1956.
The devotees of the Mahabodhi society made an appeal to the people to include themselves as Buddhists in the on going census all over India.
www.ambedkar.org /News/DhammapadaFestival.htm   (541 words)

  
 Buddhism Society - Henepola Gunaratana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the invitation of the Sasana Sevaka Society, Bhante Gunaratana came to the United States in 1968 to serve as Hen.
General Secretary of the Buddhist Vihara Society of Washington, D.C. In 1980 he was appointed President of the Society.
He is now president of the Bhavana Society and abbot of the monastery in West Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, about 100 miles west of Washington, D.C. He continues to teach meditation and conduct retreats worldwide.
brown.edu /Students/Buddhism_Society/profiledir/henepolagunaratana.html   (383 words)

  
 Anagarika Dharmapala presented in section
The establishment of Mahabodhi Society on May 31, 1891 in Colombo was the new beginning for the neglected holy site.
The Indian Government recognising the true aspirations of the Mahabodhi Society, the Director General of Archaeology presented a golden casket containing sacred relics of The Buddha to the Mahabodhi Society on behalf of the Government of India.
It is the wish of the Mahabodhi Society to give the people of India without distinction of caste, and creed, the compassionate doctrine of the Gauthama Samma Sambuddha.
www.newsfinder.org /more.php?id=1183_0_5_0_M   (671 words)

  
 Online edition of Sunday Observer - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Maha Thera also revived the British Mahabodhi Society with the active assistance of a group of Western Buddhists giving further impetus to the spread of Buddhism.
Impressed by his scholarship and his reputation as an exponent of the Buddha Dhamma, Mahabodhi Society of Sri Lanka invited him to continue the pioneering work initiated by the late Anagarika Dharmapala in the subcontinent.
And he served the society with commitment as an expositor, translator and editor of the Pali texts.
www.sundayobserver.lk /2005/03/20/fea31.html   (1225 words)

  
 A Pilgrims Guide to Buddhist India: Bodh Gaya
In the middle of the town is the Mahabodhi Temple with the Bodhi Tree behind it and the surrounding shrines marking the Buddha's seven weeks in Bodh Gaya.
The Mahabodhi Society Rest House is very convenient being close to the Temple and like the Burmese Temple is good for a long term stay.
The Mahabodhi Society, the Root Institute and the Korean temple have excellent projects to help local people.
www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/pilgrim/pg_02.htm   (494 words)

  
 News at Tipitaka Network
The Maha Bodhi Society of Sri Lanka is organising the 2550 the Buddha Jayanthi celebrations in Sri Lanka while the Maha Bodhi Society of India is organising a Buddha Jayanthi Festivals in Buddhist cities of India.
Upatissa Thera said: "The Mahabodhi Society decided to hold the 2550th Buddha Jayanthi at the Society's headquarters after considering the historic value of the place.
Banagala Thera said it was due to Mahabodhi Society that Sri Lanka was able to acquire the relics of Agrasravakas Most Ven.
www.tipitaka.net /community/news.php?page=060409a   (836 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior... World
As the dispute over the alleged forgery case in Mahabodhi Society of India (MSI) persists, the issue took an international turn with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urging Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to intervene for the release of a monk.
Ms Kumaratunga wrote to Mr Vajpayee that Wimalsara thero "was a holy man who had carried the saplings of centuries-old Mahabodhi tree Sri Lanka to bodh Gaya for planting it in the sacred place to commemorate the relationship between the two countries which continue to be cordial over the passage of time".
In her May 4 letter, whose copies were made available here, the Sri Lankan President appreciated the monk’s role in promoting goodwill between the peoples of India and Sri Lanka and said he was deputed to Bodh Gaya to propagate the message of Lord Buddha.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /02may22/inter.htm   (3312 words)

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