![]() , Sinhalese, Book edition: Budubava patana Baḷangoḍa Ānanda Maitreya mahanāhimi / Ittâpāna Dhammālaṅkāra himi = Biography of ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero (Sinhala: බලංගොඩ ආනන්ද මෛත්රෙය Ananda Maitreya Thero lived a modest life and did a great service for the Ananda Maitreya Thero wrote nearly fifty books on sutras (scripture). When we hear the name Ananda Maitreya two words delightedness Ananda and having loving kindness Maitreya come to our mind. Thera promenaded for a long time on the soft clouds of our mind. We tried to draw in our minds a portrait of an unseen Buddha from him. The pleasing way of writing this book is one. The other is the fact that this presentation comes from a young writer we know only too well.Ĭonsidering the youth of today, who generally run after popular works will not write a book about a Maha Thera. Permanent link to this article: Venerable Balangoda Ananda Maitreya was one of the great personalities of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century, and it is testimony to his vast store of past merits that his life span stretched clear across this century from its beginning almost to its end. In the course of his exemplary life this outstanding Mahathera has held some of the most prestigious academic and ecclesiastical posts in the country. Yet such honor balangodx fame hardly touched him inwardly: For me it is a personal honor to be able to name Ven.Īnanda Maitreya as my own ordination teacherthe one who brought me into the Sangha and guided my first steps in the life of a bhikkhu. The background story to my meeting with the Mahanayaka Thera goes back to the year I had been ordained as a samanera novice in the Vietnamese Mahayana Order and was lecturing in world religions at a local university. ![]() One day our center received notice that a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka would be arriving in Los Angeles. We invited him baoangoda stay sihhala us and give a series of lectures on Theravada Buddhism at our center. Balangoda ananda maitreya thero sinhala books series# That Buddhist monk was none other than Ven. Piyadassi suggested to me that some day I should come to Sri Lanka, where he could arrange for me to stay at a Buddhist monastery. The next year the decision had crystallized in my mind to go to Asia to take ordination as a Theravada Buddhist monk. I wrote to Ven.īalanvoda to remind him of his invitation, and he wrote back, giving me the name of a senior prelate who, he said, had previously ordained Westerners. I wrote to the Mahanayaka Thera, telling him of my background and of my desire to come to Sri Lanka to ordain as a bhikkhu maltreya to study Pali and Buddhism. The Venerable promptly replied, extending me a warm welcome and assuring me that he could oversee my ordination and my instruction in the Dhamma. Balangoda ananda maitreya thero sinhala books series#.Balangoda ananda maitreya thero sinhala books pdf#.
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