{"id":11438,"date":"2021-12-20T03:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T03:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2021-12-20T03:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T03:52:59","slug":"sri-lankan-buddhist-monks-invoke-blessings-on-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankan-buddhist-monks-invoke-blessings-on-dalai-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Buddhist monks invoke blessings on Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lankan Buddhist monks invoked blessings on Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, during a Buddhist event held virtually, which was attended by the highest spiritual leader of Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chief Incumbent of the Pirivena of the Asgiri Maha Vihara, the Venerable Narampanawe Ananda Thero, thanked the Dalai Lama for speaking at the event held over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He then invoked blessings on the Dalai Lama saying his teachings should be practised by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs Sri Lankan Buddhist monks we would like to bless the Dalai Lama,\u201d the Venerable Narampanawe Ananda Thero said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Buddhist event was organised by the Sri Lankan Tibetan Buddhist Brotherhood Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dalai Lama\u2019s two days of teachings on Maha Satipatthana Sutta for Theravada Sangha members from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand was followed by a question and answer session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of Sri Lankan devotees and monks from other countries posed questions to the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organisers said that the Dalai Lama spoke at the request of the Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives \u2013 Suan Mokkh Bangkok, Srivijaya State Buddhist Council of Tangerang-Banten Indonesia, Theravada Buddhist Council Malaysia, Sri Lanka Tibetan Buddhist Brotherhood Society, ASEAN Dhammaduta Project and the Tibetan Buddhist Center Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka has so far refused to allow the Dalai Lama to visit Sri Lanka as a result of pressure from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan Buddhist monks invoked blessings on Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}