The Maha Bodhi Society of India celebrated the 161st Birth Anniversary of its revered founder, Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, on 17th September 2025 at its headquarters and centres across India. On this occasion, the Society fondly remembered its founder and his remarkable legacy. As in...
Kolkata, India — The Maha Bodhi Society of India (MBSI), a leading institution in the preservation and promotion of Buddhist values and heritage, will convene its 128th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Sunday, 7th September, 2025 at 3:00 PM at the Buddhagaya Centre of...
On May 25, 2025, OpIndia published a video clip (9 minutes 38 seconds) across its official social media platforms, including YouTube. The video, narrated by Ritika Chandola, falsely accuses Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala of being the root cause of hatred between Buddhists and Hindus regarding...
In a historic initiative, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in collaboration with the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) and the Maha Bodhi Society of India, is organizing for the first time an exposition of the Sacred Relic of Sakyamuni Buddha in Vietnam. This...
Kolkata, March 29: The Maha Bodhi Society of India has extended its condolences and support to the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand on March 28, 2025. In a statement, Ven. P. Seewalee Thero, General Secretary & Chief Monk of...
Sarnath, India – On March 30, 2025, a solemn prayer meeting was held at the sacred Mulgandhakuti Vihara, Maha Bodhi Society of India, to offer condolences and blessings for the victims of the recent earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand. Monks and devotees from various...
New Delhi, March 22, 2025 – The New Delhi Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society of India celebrated the 86th Anniversary of Buddha Vihar with a grand event attended by distinguished dignitaries, scholars, monks, and devotees from across the world. The event was graced...
Bodhgaya, February 4, 2025 – The Buddhagaya Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully celebrated the 18th Anniversary of Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Vihara and the Exposition of the Sacred Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha and his chief disciples, Arhant Sariputta and Mahamoggallana,...
Sarnath, January 26, 2025 – The Maha Bodhi Society of India, Sarnath, along with its schools, celebrated the 76th Republic Day of India with great enthusiasm and patriotic fervor at the premises of the historic Mulagandha Kuti Vihara. The national event commenced with the...
Bodh Gaya, India – December 17, 2024: His Excellency, the President of Sri Lanka, Mr. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, visited the Buddha Gaya Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society of India during his official visit to Bodh Gaya, the sacred site where Prince Siddhartha attained...
Sarnath, November 14, 2024: The Sarnath Center of the Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully hosted the two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony on November 13th and 14th, 2024. The event witnessed the participation of hundreds of devotees and venerable monks from various Buddhist countries,...
Buddhagaya, November 18: The Maha Bodhi International Conference on “Pali and Buddhism” was successfully held on 17th November 2024 at the Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Memorial Hall, located within the premises of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, Buddhagaya Centre. The theme of the conference,...
Buddha Gaya, November 10, 2024: The Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully organized a two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony at its Buddha Gaya Centre on November 9th and 10th, 2024. The event witnessed enthusiastic participation from hundreds of devotees, including representatives from various Buddhist...
Sarnath, Nov 16: The Sarnath Centre of Maha Bodhi Society of India has commemorated the 93rd Anniversary of the Mulagandha Kuti Vihara on the holy occasion of Karthik Purnima, 15th November 2024, at the sacred site of Rishipattan – Sarnath. The celebrations featured a...
Sarnath, November 12, 2024 – The Anagarika Dharmapala International Institute of Pali & Buddhist Studies and Monastic Training, in collaboration with the Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, organized the 11th International Conference on “Pali and Buddhism” at Mulagandha Kuti Vihara, Sarnath. The theme...
Kolkata, September 17, 2024: The Maha Bodhi Society of India celebrated the 160th Birth Anniversary of its founder, the revered Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, on September 17, 2024, at its headquarters in Kolkata and across all its centers. This significant occasion was marked with a...
New Delhi, November 03, 2024: Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully conducted a two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony on November 1-2, 2024, bringing together hundreds of Buddhists from India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and beyond in a celebration of community, generosity, and spiritual unity. The...
The three-day long celebration of 17th Anniversary of Jaya Siri Maha BodhiVihara and the sacred relics exposition of the Buddha and his chief disciples Arhants Sariputta and Maha Mogallana was held on 1st Feb to 3rd Feb, 2024.
The Sacred Relics of the Buddha were exposed for public veneration and worship in Mulagandha Kuti Vihara, Sarnath, Varanasi from 25th to 27th Nov. 2023. The exposition went on very smoothly and about 3,000 devotees and pilgrims got the rare sight of sacred Relics....
Samaneri ( Novitiate) Training program at Sarnath Centre of MBSI started on 12th November which continues till 27th November at the holy Isipatana Migadawa, organized by Bodhipakkhiya Foundation in collaboration with Maha Bodhi SocietyOfIndia.
The 159th Birth Anniversary of Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, the founder of Maha Bodhi Society of India has celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour at MBSI Headquarters, Kolkata and all centers on 17th September, 2023. Here are glimpses of the celebration in centres wise. MBSI...
Buddhist Meditation The following paragraphs are questions and answers about Buddhist meditation. These questions may come to you at any time, as a student of Buddhist studies. You should know and understand about the answers to these questions. Question: What is Buddhist meditation? Answer:...
By MISS I. B. HORNER, M.A., Ph.D., Hony. Secretary, Pali Text Society, England. THE vitality of Early Buddhism is among its most impressive features. It is one for which women, whether still leading the household life or having gone forth into the Order of...
By BHIKKHU SILABHADRA BUDDHA GAYA, the holiest spot-on earth for the Buddhist world, is a few miles off from Gaya, headquarters of the district of the same name in the province of Bihar. Here, at Buddha Gaya, under the holy Bodhi tree, the Lord...
by Kogen Mizuno The aim of Buddhism, and the hope of the Buddha, is that all people may be shown how to become ideal human beings, and at the very last, be removed from ignorance and drawn toward wisdom. Human education, in Buddhist terms,...
The Dhammapada is one of the greatest canonical books in the Buddhistic scriptures. Its name has been variously interpreted. The word dhamma is formed to be used in the Pali language in different meanings. It may mean here either religion or virtue. The word...
It is the Maha Bodhi Society, having its founder Anagarika Dharmapala at its forefront, that resuscitated the Buddha Gaya temple and made it once more a hallowed place of pilgrimage for all the Buddhists of the world. This an open declaration that comes and...
The Maha Bodhi Society was established in May 1891 for the purpose of reviving Buddhism in India and for restoring the ancient Buddhist Shrines at Bodh Gaya, Benaras and Kushinara. The Journal of the Maha Bodhi Society, took its birth just a year after...
Anagarika Dharmapala, the founder of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, on several occasions in his life time expressed his gratitude to the great Indian leaders, especially the leaders of the Bengali community, for extending him a helping hand in his historic struggle to...
The relics of Sri Sariputta and Mahamoggallana Arahans, the two chief disciples of Lord Buddha, which are returning to Indian soil on January the Fourteenth, were discovered by General Sir Alexander Cunningham in the third stupa on Sanchi Hill in the year 1851. From...
The crowning and most glorious achievement of Anagarika Dharmapala’s lifelong sacrifices and struggles was the completion of the Mulagandhakuti Vihara at Sarnath. He began his life’s mission with the object of restoring the Maha Bodhi Temple at Buddha Gaya, which however he could not...
WHO THEY WERE SRI SARIPUTTAAND MOGGALLANA ARAHANS WERE THE TWO CHIEF DISCI- PLES OF LORD BUDDHA. FOR CENTURIES THEY HAVE STOOD IN THE ANNALS OF BUDDHISM AND BUDDHIST LITERATURE RECORDS, IN SOME DETAIL, THE LIFE AND ACTIVITY OF THEIR CHARACTER AND ACHIEVEMENTS. They were...
I welcome you to this hallowed spot, sacred to the Buddhists of Asia as the place where the Devatideva Sakyamuni preached the first Discourse known as the Dham- macakkapavattana Sutta to the five Bhikkhus 2520 years ago. The Bodhisatva Prince Siddhartha was born at...
Buddha Gaya, where the Buddha at- tained supreme wisdom (bodhi), lies six miles to the south of Gaya in Bihar state. To the devout Buddhist there is no place of greater interest or sanctity than the holy spot of the Buddha’s enlightenment. Sacred shrines...
The Ordination It is the dying desire of the Founder of the Maha Bodhi Society to be ordained into the Higher Order of Bhikkhus, and in accordance there with Eleven Chief Priests and four Bhikkhus with Mr. Rajah Hewavitarna, are leav- ing Ceylon on...
As a Dhammaduta worker in the Maha Bodhi Society of India Due to his standing, social service and learning, Brahmachari Devapriya Valisingha, the General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, invited Ven. Ariyawansa, at the end of Oct. 1949 to serve in...
Ven. P Seewalee Thero was born in Badulla district of Sri Lanka. His father and mother were H. M. R. Bandara and N. W. Premawati respectively. He had his ordination at Mulagiri Raja Mahaviharaya, Peleata in Monaragala District of Sri Lanka In 1978 and...
Ven. Medawala Sudhammalankara Thero was born in Medawala in Kandy District of Sri Lanka on 30 June 1954. His father was M. B. Ekanayake. He had his ordination in 1968. He had his Higher Ordination Syamopali Maha Nikaya, Malwatha Chapter, Malwatta Mahaviharaya, Kandy, Sri...
Ven. Dr. Dodangoda Rewatha Thera was born in the village of Dodangoda in the district of Kaluthara and had his primary education at Sapugahawatta Maha Vidyalaya. At the ceremonial ordinations of 108 young boys to mark the 100th anniversary of Kotte Sangha Sabha in...
Ven. Dr. Mapalagama Wipulasara Thera, a world renowned Buddhist Sculptor and Painter, was born in Sri Lanka on 3rd of March 1925. He became the director of the Parama Dhamma Chetiya Pirivena, in 1960. The Ven. Wipulasara Thera entered the Ordain at the age...
Ven. Dr Nandissara Maha Thera was appointed as the acting General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India after the death of Ven’ble Dr Potuwila Gunaratana Maha Thera. Born in Ellawala, Ratnapura, and educated at Kotte he passed the London Matriculation examination in...
Ven’ble Potuwila Gunaratana Nayaka Thero came to India in 1954 as a student of linguistic studies in Banaras Hindu University. He was born at Potuwila, in south-west Sri Lanka and was ordained at the Sugathabimbarama Vihara, Navagamuwa and later received higher or- dination in...
After the passing away of Venerable Neluwe Jinaratana Nayaka Mahathera, Venerable Uruwela Dhammaratana was unanimously appointed to hold the high post of General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India. He was the fourth General Secretary of the Society and due to deteriorating...
Most Venerable Jinaratana Nayaka Maha Thera, the General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India and the Vice-President of the Asian Buddhist Council for Peace was born on 17th March, 1913, at Neluwa, Galle District, in Sri Lanka. He entered the Buddhist Order...
He was the ‘Man’ behind Dharmapala’s – successful Buddhist missionary work for a long time. He was the ‘Man’ close to Ven. Siri Devamitta Dhammapala until the latter’s death. Sri Devapriya Valisinghe was appointed to the post of General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi...
By Bhikkhu Devamitta Dhammapala According to my horoscope I was born on Saturday the 17th in the month of September, in the year 2408 of Buddha’s parinirvana cor- responding to the Christian era 1864, in Colombo, in a prominent Buddhist family. At the time...
This great Hawaiian lady form the U.S.A. was the ‘Foster parent’ of Anagarika Dharmapala. Whenever Angarika Dharmapala was in need of financial assistance for his Buddhist revival work it is his ‘Foster mother’ that helped him with absolute confidence. In 1932 Anagarika Dharmapala, wrote...
Angarika H. Dharmapala as the editor of the Maha Bodhi journal recording the death of Colonel Henry Steel Olcott in its 1907 February issue wrote:”…We have to record with sorrow the death of Colonel Olcott which took place at Adyar on the 17th of...
Sixty-eight years and six months ago,on a certain Tuesday in the Bengali month of Falgoon, there was born in the village of Purulia, Katwa, in the District of Burdwan, in the ancestral family house of the Mukherjis an heir to the late Nil Madhab...
The Sun of Ceylon has set. Universally respected by the millions of Buddhists in Asia for his immaculate character and superhuman learning the great and illustrious Buddhist Chief High Priest His Holiness Hikkaduva Sumangala, leaving thousands of scholarly pupils and the whole Buddhist world...
From the intellectual firmament of Bengal, a star of the first magnitude has fallen. The whole of Calcutta was convulsed with grief on Monday morning at the reception of the startling news that Sir Asutosh Mookherjee, the lion of Bengal, the heroic gladiator, the...
Sir Mudliyar Hewawitharana & Lady Mallika Hewawitharana It is the parents who mould and shape the culture of a child both physically and mentally. Here, both Don Carolis and his wife Mallika brought up young David in a traditional Sinhala Buddhist atmosphere with both...
By Arjun Das Gupta The Maha Bodhi Society was established in May 1891 for the purpose of reviving Buddhism in India and for restoring the ancient Buddhist Shrines at Bodh Gaya, Benaras and Kushinara. The Journal of the Maha Bodhi Society, took its birth...
A Mulagandha Kuti Vihara Frescos dedication ceremony was organized on the completion of restoration on16th December, 2022 at 2.00 PM by the Maha Bodhi Society of India in collaboration with Society of Honouring Master Kosetsu-Nosu in the presence of Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President, Indian...
The Maha Bodhi Society of India celebrated the 161st Birth Anniversary of its revered founder, Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, on 17th September 2025 at its headquarters and centres across India. On this occasion, the Society fondly remembered its founder and his remarkable legacy. As in...
Maha Bodhi Society of India Celebrates 161st Birth Anniversary of Founder Bodhisattava Anagarika Dharmapala
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Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, Gallery, MBSI, News
Kolkata, India — The Maha Bodhi Society of India (MBSI), a leading institution in the preservation and promotion of Buddhist values and heritage, will convene its 128th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Sunday, 7th September, 2025 at 3:00 PM at the Buddhagaya Centre of...
MAHA BODHI SOCIETY OF INDIA ANNOUNCES 128th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON 7th SEPTEMBER, 2025
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Annual General Meeting, Gallery, MBSI, News
On May 25, 2025, OpIndia published a video clip (9 minutes 38 seconds) across its official social media platforms, including YouTube. The video, narrated by Ritika Chandola, falsely accuses Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala of being the root cause of hatred between Buddhists and Hindus regarding...
OpIndia and its team must first understand: Who is Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala?
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Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, Gallery, News
In a historic initiative, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in collaboration with the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) and the Maha Bodhi Society of India, is organizing for the first time an exposition of the Sacred Relic of Sakyamuni Buddha in Vietnam. This...
Exposition of the Sacred Relic of Sakyamuni Buddha Underway in Vietnam
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Gallery, MBSI
Kolkata, March 29: The Maha Bodhi Society of India has extended its condolences and support to the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand on March 28, 2025. In a statement, Ven. P. Seewalee Thero, General Secretary & Chief Monk of...
Maha Bodhi Society of India Stands in Solidarity with Myanmar & Thailand Earthquake Victims
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Gallery, MBSI
Sarnath, India – On March 30, 2025, a solemn prayer meeting was held at the sacred Mulgandhakuti Vihara, Maha Bodhi Society of India, to offer condolences and blessings for the victims of the recent earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand. Monks and devotees from various...
Prayer Meeting Held at Sarnath for Earthquake Victims of Myanmar and Thailand
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Gallery, MBSI, News
New Delhi, March 22, 2025 – The New Delhi Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society of India celebrated the 86th Anniversary of Buddha Vihar with a grand event attended by distinguished dignitaries, scholars, monks, and devotees from across the world. The event was graced...
86th Anniversary of Buddha Vihar Celebrated in New Delhi
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Bodhgaya, February 4, 2025 – The Buddhagaya Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully celebrated the 18th Anniversary of Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Vihara and the Exposition of the Sacred Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha and his chief disciples, Arhant Sariputta and Mahamoggallana,...
Buddhagaya Centre of Maha Bodhi Society of India Celebrates 18th Anniversary of Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Vihara with Sacred Relics Exposition
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Gallery, MBSI
Sarnath, January 26, 2025 – The Maha Bodhi Society of India, Sarnath, along with its schools, celebrated the 76th Republic Day of India with great enthusiasm and patriotic fervor at the premises of the historic Mulagandha Kuti Vihara. The national event commenced with the...
Maha Bodhi Society of India, Sarnath, Celebrates 76th Republic Day with Patriotic Fervor
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Gallery, MBSI, News
Bodh Gaya, India – December 17, 2024: His Excellency, the President of Sri Lanka, Mr. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, visited the Buddha Gaya Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society of India during his official visit to Bodh Gaya, the sacred site where Prince Siddhartha attained...
President Dissanayake’s Pilgrimage to the Land of Enlightenment, Bodh Gaya: Visits Buddhagaya Centre of the Maha Bodhi Society of India
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Sarnath, November 14, 2024: The Sarnath Center of the Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully hosted the two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony on November 13th and 14th, 2024. The event witnessed the participation of hundreds of devotees and venerable monks from various Buddhist countries,...
Sarnath Center of Maha Bodhi Society of India Successfully Conducts Kathina Chivara Dana Ceremony
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Buddhagaya, November 18: The Maha Bodhi International Conference on “Pali and Buddhism” was successfully held on 17th November 2024 at the Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Memorial Hall, located within the premises of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, Buddhagaya Centre. The theme of the conference,...
Global Scholars Celebrate Pali as India’s Classical Language at Maha Bodhi Conference
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Gallery, MBSI, News, Publications
Buddha Gaya, November 10, 2024: The Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully organized a two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony at its Buddha Gaya Centre on November 9th and 10th, 2024. The event witnessed enthusiastic participation from hundreds of devotees, including representatives from various Buddhist...
Two-Day Kathina Chivara Dana Ceremony Successfully Concludes at the Maha Bodhi Society of India, Buddha Gaya
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Gallery, MBSI, News
Sarnath, Nov 16: The Sarnath Centre of Maha Bodhi Society of India has commemorated the 93rd Anniversary of the Mulagandha Kuti Vihara on the holy occasion of Karthik Purnima, 15th November 2024, at the sacred site of Rishipattan – Sarnath. The celebrations featured a...
Maha Bodhi Society of India Celebrates 93rd Anniversary of Mulagandha Kuti Vihara; Deputy CM of UP Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya Attends
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Gallery, MBSI, News
Sarnath, November 12, 2024 – The Anagarika Dharmapala International Institute of Pali & Buddhist Studies and Monastic Training, in collaboration with the Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, organized the 11th International Conference on “Pali and Buddhism” at Mulagandha Kuti Vihara, Sarnath. The theme...
MBSI Hosts 11th International Conference on Pali and Buddhism Held in Sarnath, Celebrating India’s Classical Language
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Buddhism, Buddhist, Maha Bodhi Maha Vihara, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee
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Kolkata, September 17, 2024: The Maha Bodhi Society of India celebrated the 160th Birth Anniversary of its founder, the revered Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, on September 17, 2024, at its headquarters in Kolkata and across all its centers. This significant occasion was marked with a...
Maha Bodhi Society of India Celebrates 160th Birth Anniversary of Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala
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Gallery, News
New Delhi, November 03, 2024: Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully conducted a two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony on November 1-2, 2024, bringing together hundreds of Buddhists from India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and beyond in a celebration of community, generosity, and spiritual unity. The...
Khatina Chivara Dana ceremony held at New Delhi Centre of Maha Bodhi Society of India
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Here are glimpses of the 2568th Buddha Purnima celebration from Headquarters and Centres of Maha Bodhi Society of India
MBSI Celebrates 2568th Buddha Purnima
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Buddhism, Buddhist, Maha Bodhi Maha Vihara, meditation, Sacred relics
Gallery, MBSI, News
The three-day long celebration of 17th Anniversary of Jaya Siri Maha BodhiVihara and the sacred relics exposition of the Buddha and his chief disciples Arhants Sariputta and Maha Mogallana was held on 1st Feb to 3rd Feb, 2024.
Sacred Relics Exposition at Buddhagaya Centre – 2024
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Gallery, MBSI, News
Kathina Civara Dana Ceremony at Sarnath Centre – 2023
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The Sacred Relics of the Buddha were exposed for public veneration and worship in Mulagandha Kuti Vihara, Sarnath, Varanasi from 25th to 27th Nov. 2023. The exposition went on very smoothly and about 3,000 devotees and pilgrims got the rare sight of sacred Relics....
Exposition of the Sacred Relics of Lord Buddha at Sarnath Centre
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Buddhism, Buddhist, meditation, Sacred relics, Sarnath
Gallery, MBSI, News
Kathina Civara Dana Celebrates at Buddhagaya centre
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MBSI
The Annual Kathina Civara Dana ceremony was held at MBSI Headquarters, Kolkata on 11th Nov, 2023
Kathina Civara Dana ceremony Celebrates at MBSI Headquarters, Kolkata
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MBSI
Kathina Civara Dana ceremony was held at Lumbini centre of MBSI on 8th Nov, 2023
Kathina Civara Dana Ceremony Celebrates at Lumbini Centre, MBSI
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MBSI
Samaneri ( Novitiate) Training program at Sarnath Centre of MBSI started on 12th November which continues till 27th November at the holy Isipatana Migadawa, organized by Bodhipakkhiya Foundation in collaboration with Maha Bodhi SocietyOfIndia.
Samaneri ( Novitiate) Training program at Sarnath Centre of MBSI
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MBSI
Kathina Civara Dana ceremony has observed at New Delhi centre of Maha Bodhi Society of India on 5th November, 2023.
Kathina Civara Dana ceremony observes at MBSI New Delhi Centre
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The 159th Birth Anniversary of Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, the founder of Maha Bodhi Society of India has celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour at MBSI Headquarters, Kolkata and all centers on 17th September, 2023. Here are glimpses of the celebration in centres wise. MBSI...
Maha Bodhi Society of India celebrates 159th Birth Anniversary of its founder
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Buddhism, Buddhist, Maha Bodhi Maha Vihara, Sri Lanka
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The 126th Annual General Meeting of Maha Bodhi Society of India was held at its Buddha Gaya Centre on 10th September, 2023.
The 126th Annual General Meeting of MBSI
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Buddhist Meditation The following paragraphs are questions and answers about Buddhist meditation. These questions may come to you at any time, as a student of Buddhist studies. You should know and understand about the answers to these questions. Question: What is Buddhist meditation? Answer:...
Introduction to Buddhist Meditation
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Buddhist, meditation
MBSI
By MISS I. B. HORNER, M.A., Ph.D., Hony. Secretary, Pali Text Society, England. THE vitality of Early Buddhism is among its most impressive features. It is one for which women, whether still leading the household life or having gone forth into the Order of...
EARLY BUDDHISM AND WOMEN
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MBSI
By BHIKKHU SILABHADRA BUDDHA GAYA, the holiest spot-on earth for the Buddhist world, is a few miles off from Gaya, headquarters of the district of the same name in the province of Bihar. Here, at Buddha Gaya, under the holy Bodhi tree, the Lord...
BUDDHA-GAYA TEMPLE QUESTION
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MBSI
by Kogen Mizuno The aim of Buddhism, and the hope of the Buddha, is that all people may be shown how to become ideal human beings, and at the very last, be removed from ignorance and drawn toward wisdom. Human education, in Buddhist terms,...
Buddhism and Human Education
MahaBodhi
MBSI
The Dhammapada is one of the greatest canonical books in the Buddhistic scriptures. Its name has been variously interpreted. The word dhamma is formed to be used in the Pali language in different meanings. It may mean here either religion or virtue. The word...
The History of the Dhammapada
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MBSI
It is the Maha Bodhi Society, having its founder Anagarika Dharmapala at its forefront, that resuscitated the Buddha Gaya temple and made it once more a hallowed place of pilgrimage for all the Buddhists of the world. This an open declaration that comes and...
The Maha Bodhi Temple and Maha Bodhi Society
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MBSI
The Maha Bodhi Society was established in May 1891 for the purpose of reviving Buddhism in India and for restoring the ancient Buddhist Shrines at Bodh Gaya, Benaras and Kushinara. The Journal of the Maha Bodhi Society, took its birth just a year after...
History of the Journal of the Maha-Bodhi Society
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MBSI
Anagarika Dharmapala, the founder of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, on several occasions in his life time expressed his gratitude to the great Indian leaders, especially the leaders of the Bengali community, for extending him a helping hand in his historic struggle to...
In Memoriam
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Dr. BR Ambedkar, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, Swami Vivekananda
MBSI
The relics of Sri Sariputta and Mahamoggallana Arahans, the two chief disciples of Lord Buddha, which are returning to Indian soil on January the Fourteenth, were discovered by General Sir Alexander Cunningham in the third stupa on Sanchi Hill in the year 1851. From...
History of the Sacred relics of Arahant Mahamogallana and Arahant Sariputta at MBSI
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MBSI
The 2567th Buddha Jayanti Celebration
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The crowning and most glorious achievement of Anagarika Dharmapala’s lifelong sacrifices and struggles was the completion of the Mulagandhakuti Vihara at Sarnath. He began his life’s mission with the object of restoring the Maha Bodhi Temple at Buddha Gaya, which however he could not...
MULAGANDHAKUTI VIHARA OPENING CEREMONY
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MBSI
New Academic Block inaugurated for Mahabodhi Junior Girls’ High School, Sarnath
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MBSI, Uncategorized
Celebrations of the 84th Anniversary of MBSI New Delhi Center (Buddha Vihar)
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MBSI
WHO THEY WERE SRI SARIPUTTAAND MOGGALLANA ARAHANS WERE THE TWO CHIEF DISCI- PLES OF LORD BUDDHA. FOR CENTURIES THEY HAVE STOOD IN THE ANNALS OF BUDDHISM AND BUDDHIST LITERATURE RECORDS, IN SOME DETAIL, THE LIFE AND ACTIVITY OF THEIR CHARACTER AND ACHIEVEMENTS. They were...
The Sacred Relics of Arhant Sariputta and Arhant Mahamogallana
MahaBodhi
MBSI
16th Anniversary of Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Vihara cum Annual sacred relics exposition 2023
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Uncategorized
I welcome you to this hallowed spot, sacred to the Buddhists of Asia as the place where the Devatideva Sakyamuni preached the first Discourse known as the Dham- macakkapavattana Sutta to the five Bhikkhus 2520 years ago. The Bodhisatva Prince Siddhartha was born at...
Ven’ble Sri Devamitta Dharmapala’s Address at the Opening Ceremony of the Mulagandhakuti Vihara
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Buddha Gaya, where the Buddha at- tained supreme wisdom (bodhi), lies six miles to the south of Gaya in Bihar state. To the devout Buddhist there is no place of greater interest or sanctity than the holy spot of the Buddha’s enlightenment. Sacred shrines...
Buddha Gaya: The Birth place of Buddhism
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Uncategorized
The Ordination It is the dying desire of the Founder of the Maha Bodhi Society to be ordained into the Higher Order of Bhikkhus, and in accordance there with Eleven Chief Priests and four Bhikkhus with Mr. Rajah Hewavitarna, are leav- ing Ceylon on...
Ven’ble Sri Devamaitta Dharmapla
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Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala
As a Dhammaduta worker in the Maha Bodhi Society of India Due to his standing, social service and learning, Brahmachari Devapriya Valisingha, the General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, invited Ven. Ariyawansa, at the end of Oct. 1949 to serve in...
L. Ariyawansa Nayake Mahathera
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Ven. P Seewalee Thero was born in Badulla district of Sri Lanka. His father and mother were H. M. R. Bandara and N. W. Premawati respectively. He had his ordination at Mulagiri Raja Mahaviharaya, Peleata in Monaragala District of Sri Lanka In 1978 and...
Ven’ble Pelwatte Seewalee Thero
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Ven. Medawala Sudhammalankara Thero was born in Medawala in Kandy District of Sri Lanka on 30 June 1954. His father was M. B. Ekanayake. He had his ordination in 1968. He had his Higher Ordination Syamopali Maha Nikaya, Malwatha Chapter, Malwatta Mahaviharaya, Kandy, Sri...
Ven’ble Medawala Sudhammalankara Thero (2015-2016)
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Ven. Dr. Dodangoda Rewatha Thera was born in the village of Dodangoda in the district of Kaluthara and had his primary education at Sapugahawatta Maha Vidyalaya. At the ceremonial ordinations of 108 young boys to mark the 100th anniversary of Kotte Sangha Sabha in...
Ven. Dr. D. Rewatha Thera (1995-2013)
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Ven. Dr. Mapalagama Wipulasara Thera, a world renowned Buddhist Sculptor and Painter, was born in Sri Lanka on 3rd of March 1925. He became the director of the Parama Dhamma Chetiya Pirivena, in 1960. The Ven. Wipulasara Thera entered the Ordain at the age...
Ven’ble Dr. Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thero (1985-1995)
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Ven. Dr Nandissara Maha Thera was appointed as the acting General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India after the death of Ven’ble Dr Potuwila Gunaratana Maha Thera. Born in Ellawala, Ratnapura, and educated at Kotte he passed the London Matriculation examination in...
Ven. Dr Nandissara Maha Thera (1984-1985)
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Ven’ble Potuwila Gunaratana Nayaka Thero came to India in 1954 as a student of linguistic studies in Banaras Hindu University. He was born at Potuwila, in south-west Sri Lanka and was ordained at the Sugathabimbarama Vihara, Navagamuwa and later received higher or- dination in...
Ven’ble Dr Potuwila Gunaratana Nayaka Thero (1984)
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After the passing away of Venerable Neluwe Jinaratana Nayaka Mahathera, Venerable Uruwela Dhammaratana was unanimously appointed to hold the high post of General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India. He was the fourth General Secretary of the Society and due to deteriorating...
Ven. Dr Uruwela Dhammaratana Thero
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Most Venerable Jinaratana Nayaka Maha Thera, the General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India and the Vice-President of the Asian Buddhist Council for Peace was born on 17th March, 1913, at Neluwa, Galle District, in Sri Lanka. He entered the Buddhist Order...
Most Venerable Jinaratana Nayaka Maha Thera
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He was the ‘Man’ behind Dharmapala’s – successful Buddhist missionary work for a long time. He was the ‘Man’ close to Ven. Siri Devamitta Dhammapala until the latter’s death. Sri Devapriya Valisinghe was appointed to the post of General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi...
Brahmachari Devapriya Valisinghe
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By Bhikkhu Devamitta Dhammapala According to my horoscope I was born on Saturday the 17th in the month of September, in the year 2408 of Buddha’s parinirvana cor- responding to the Christian era 1864, in Colombo, in a prominent Buddhist family. At the time...
Reminiscences of my early life
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This great Hawaiian lady form the U.S.A. was the ‘Foster parent’ of Anagarika Dharmapala. Whenever Angarika Dharmapala was in need of financial assistance for his Buddhist revival work it is his ‘Foster mother’ that helped him with absolute confidence. In 1932 Anagarika Dharmapala, wrote...
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Foster
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Angarika H. Dharmapala as the editor of the Maha Bodhi journal recording the death of Colonel Henry Steel Olcott in its 1907 February issue wrote:”…We have to record with sorrow the death of Colonel Olcott which took place at Adyar on the 17th of...
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott
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Sixty-eight years and six months ago,on a certain Tuesday in the Bengali month of Falgoon, there was born in the village of Purulia, Katwa, in the District of Burdwan, in the ancestral family house of the Mukherjis an heir to the late Nil Madhab...
Babu Neel Comul Mukherji
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The Sun of Ceylon has set. Universally respected by the millions of Buddhists in Asia for his immaculate character and superhuman learning the great and illustrious Buddhist Chief High Priest His Holiness Hikkaduva Sumangala, leaving thousands of scholarly pupils and the whole Buddhist world...
Most Ven. Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Maha Thera
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From the intellectual firmament of Bengal, a star of the first magnitude has fallen. The whole of Calcutta was convulsed with grief on Monday morning at the reception of the startling news that Sir Asutosh Mookherjee, the lion of Bengal, the heroic gladiator, the...
Sir Ashutosh Mookerjee
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Sir Mudliyar Hewawitharana & Lady Mallika Hewawitharana It is the parents who mould and shape the culture of a child both physically and mentally. Here, both Don Carolis and his wife Mallika brought up young David in a traditional Sinhala Buddhist atmosphere with both...
Our Great Personalities: Founder’s Parents
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The 16th Anniversary of Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi Vihara cum Annual Sacred Relics Exposition-2023, Buddhagaya
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By Arjun Das Gupta The Maha Bodhi Society was established in May 1891 for the purpose of reviving Buddhism in India and for restoring the ancient Buddhist Shrines at Bodh Gaya, Benaras and Kushinara. The Journal of the Maha Bodhi Society, took its birth...
THE JOURNAL OF THE MAHA BODHI SOCIETY: Its Origin and Early History
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Buddha Vachan
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A Mulagandha Kuti Vihara Frescos dedication ceremony was organized on the completion of restoration on16th December, 2022 at 2.00 PM by the Maha Bodhi Society of India in collaboration with Society of Honouring Master Kosetsu-Nosu in the presence of Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President, Indian...
Dedication ceremony held at Mulagandhakuti Vihara
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Invitation: 158th Birth Anniversary of Bodhisattva Anagarika Dharmapala, September 17, 2022
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125th Annual General Meeting to be held on September 24, 2022
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