Browsing Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies by Issue Date

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  • A Critical Study on Spiritual Faculties and its Content 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Sri Lanka Association of Buddhist Studies, 2010)
    The meaning of the term indriya is power, energy or faculty. There are twenty-two physical and mental faculties (indriya) found in the early Buddhism as well as in the Abhidhamma. They can be divided into five groups, such ...
  • The Relationship between Ten Stages and Ten Perfections in Mahayana Buddhism 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lankan Branch., 2011)
    The meanings given in the Pali-English dictionary for the term bhūmi are earth; place; region; ground; plane; stage; level; state of consciousness. In Dhammasangani, bhūmi is synonymous with magga (path). In the philosophical ...
  • Does the External World Exist? Idealistic Perspective in Lankāvatāra Sūtra 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Dhamma Conference , Mahabodhi Society of Sri Lanka., 2012)
    Idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. In contrast, the Yogācāra School, which arose within ...
  • A Critical Study of the Number of Fetters 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Sri Lanka Buddhist and Pali University., 2012)
    The term saṃyojana translated as a mental fetter. It means shackles a sentient being to saṃsāra. The commentary of Anguttara Nikaya defines the term saṃyojana as sabbāneva cetāni bandhanaṭṭhena saṃyojanāti veditabbā. Because ...
  • Can Arahant Commit Suicide? 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Buddhist Times Trust., 2012)
    Committing suicide is a controversial issue in the current society. Though there were related incidences in Buddhist discourses, committing suicide is not introduced as an evil action by the Buddha. Since there had been ...
  • Existence of the External World: Idealistic Perspective in Lankāvatāra Sūtra 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura., 2012)
    Idealism is a philosophical approach that conceptualizes reality or reality as we can know it, as fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. The term “Idealism” is defined as "the belief that our ...
  • Ageing: A Buddhist Perspective 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Center for Study of Religion & Society (CSRS) of India Foundation, 2012)
    Gerontology is an academic branch, which studies the social, psychological and biological aspects of ageing. Gerontologists examine the adult behavior and discuss comprehensive capacities, perception, learning, abilities, ...
  • ආටානාටිය සූත්‍රයෙන් හෙළි වන බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍ය පාලන මූලධර්ම 
    Rajapaksha, Dilshan Manoj (දිවයින, 2012-07-02)
    තේජෝ බල, ආරක්‍ෂක පරිත්‍රාණ ධර්ම දේශනයක්‌ ලෙස බෞද්ධයා අතර ප්‍රකට ආටානාටිය සූත්‍රය ඇතුළත් වන්නේ දික්‌සඟියේ, පාටිකවග්ගයටය. මෙය "චතුභාණවරපාලි" නම් වූ පිරිත් පොතෙහි ගෝපනය පිණිසද, ආරක්‍ෂාව පිණිසද, පීඩාවක්‌ නොවනු පිණිසද, පහසු ...
  • The Proper Classification for Sutta and Vinaya as Depicted in the Four Great References 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Sri Lanka Association of Buddhist Studies., 2013)
    The Four Great References in the Mahaparinibbāna Sutta of Sutta Piṭaka are (1) from the mouth of the Buddha (Buddhāpadesa) (2) from the mouth of a company of monks (sanghāpadesa) (3) from the mouth of many theras ...
  • How the society can be free from danger and suffering 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University , Ayutthaya, Thailand., 2013)
    In the Sakkapañha Sutta of the Dīgha Nikāya, Sakka, the lord of gods, getting permission asks some questions which he had from the Buddha. According to him, all beings living in the society wish to be free from anger and ...
  • Limits of knowledge from a Buddhist perspective 
    Rajapaksha, Dilshan Manoj (Sri Lanka Association of Buddhist Studies (SLABS), 2013)
    Limits is an important concept associated with epistemology which is a branch of philosophy. Limits in question in this context may be practical, natural, logical or even moral. Philosophers of both East and the West have ...
  • Does Paññā Excel Ñāṇa? (A Study with reference to Sutta Piṭaka) 
    Priyanka, A. A. R. (Center for Study of Religion & Society (CSRS) of India Foundation, 2014)
    A number of words to explain the epistemological terms can be found in Buddhism. They are ñāṇa, paññā, abhiññā, vijjā, and vipassanā. In this study, attention is paid to paññā and ñāṇa. The root of these two words is ‘ña’ ...
  • Is Euthanasia Accepted or Not? A Buddhist Perspective 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (The Art Institute of Chicago, USA., 2015)
    Euthanasia is the act of killing someone who is very ill or very old that they do not suffer any more. It is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful ...
  • THE PROCESSION OF ESALA DURING THE BRITISH COLONIAL ERA 
    Priyanka, A.A.R. (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna., 2015)
    The procession which is not an innovative concept introduced by Buddhism existed in the pre-Buddhist era. For instance, Queen Mahāmāya, the mother of prince Siddhārtha wanted to see her parents. King Suddhodana arranged ...
  • Role of Buddhist Monks in the Post- Conflict Reconciliation Process: The Case of Sri Lanka 
    Hettiarachchi, Nishantha (University of Ruhuna, 2017)
    This study concerned the role of Buddhist Monks in the post conflict reconciliation process in Sri Lanka. The study observed a number of perceptions among the Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka which differed slightly, while he ...
  • බෞද්ධ මනෝ විශ්ලේෂණය හා චරිත විභාගය 
    Rajapaksha, Dilshan Manoj (සිඵමිණ, 2017-11-17)
    ත්‍ර පිටකයේ විවිධ ස්ථානවල සඳහන් වන පුද්ගල වර්ගීකරණය අභිධර්ම පිටකයේ පුග්ගලප්‍රඥප්ති ප්‍රකරණයෙහි කිසියම් වූ අංකගත ප්‍රවේශයකින් සංග්‍රහ කොට තිබෙනු දැකිය හැකිය. කුසල හා අකුසල මූල පදනම් කරගෙන පුද්ගලයා සම්බන්ධව ඉදිරිපත් වී තිබෙන ...
  • Teacher, pupil Relationship as the Foundation of Spiritual Guidance; in the light of the Selected Khandhaka-s. 
    Kanchana, A. (Sri Lanka Ramañña Mahā Nikāya, Sri Lanka., 2018)
    The word teacher means a person who is involved in a certain process of teaching or disciplining someone. The student or disciple is the one who is receiving the teaching or disciplining. The word ‘ācariya’ used in Buddhist ...
  • An Introduction to Specialty of the Buddhist Tradition among the Indian Śramaṇa Traditions; with Respect to Pali Canon 
    Kanchana, A. (Sri Paññānanda Maha Pirivena, Maharagama, Sri Lanka., 2018)
    India is concerned as the spring of eastern ideological revolution. For this very reason, India (Bhārata) is also known as the ‘treasury of eastern knowledge’. Although, the exact beginning of this ideological revolution ...
  • භක්තියෙන් අන්ධ වූ බෞද්ධයන්ගෙන් ඈත් වන සැබෑ බුදුදහමේ ප්‍රායෝගික යථාර්ථය 
    Rajapaksha, Dilshan Manoj (සිඵමිණ, 2018-10-28)
    බුදුදහම වූකලි භාවනානුයෝගි මුනිවරයාට පමණක් නොව, ගිහිගෙයි වාසය කරන කාමභෝගි ගිහියාටද අදාළය. එය ගුප්ත, ගූඪ, පුද්ගලයා සමාජයෙන් දුරස් කර ලන සර්ව-අශුභවාදී දහමක් නොවේ. සෝවාන්, සකෘදාමි, අනාගාමි, අරහත් මාර්ගඵල ලැබූ තැනැත්තාද ජීවත් ...
  • සිත යනු කුමක් ද? 
    Rajapaksha, Dilshan Manoj (සිඵමිණ, 2018-11-24)
    පුද්ගලයාගේ සිත උපතින්ම ප්‍රභාස්වරය; පැහැපත්ය; පවිත්‍රය; නිර්මලය. ආගන්තුක වූ උපක්ලේෂවලින් එය කිලිටි බවට පත් වේ (පභස්සරමිදං ඛෝ භික්ඛවේ චිත්තං තඤ්ච ඛෝ ආගන්තුකේහි උපක්කිලේසේහි උපක්කිලිට්ඨන්ති). පුද්ගලයා ක්‍රියාවට මෙහෙයවන්නේ ...

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