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THE SINHALA Yasodharāvata (The Story of Yasodharā) AND THE SINHALA Yasodharāpadānaya (The Sacred Biography of Yasodharā) Translated with an Introduction and Notes by. RANJINI OBEYESEKERE. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS. COVER ART: The Buddha visits his former wife and son, approximately 100-300. Pakistan; former kingdom of Gandhara.
Narrates the history of how the Ceylon Bible Society Revision Committee led by Rev. S.J. de S. Weerasinghe and Rev. Dr. Lynn A. de Silva coined the neologism 'Dharmayānō' to translate the Greek Christological title 'ho logos' (Jn 1:1, 14; "the Word") in the New Sinhala Bible (1982).
esteemed text in the Páli Tipiþaka, the sacred scriptures of Theraváda Buddhism. The work is included in the Khuddaka Nikáya (“Minor Collection”) of the Sutta Piþaka, but its popu-larity has raised it far above the single niche it occupies in the scriptures to the ranks of a world religious classic. Composed
In this process the supermandane sacred Buddha Dhamma written in the Sinhala Attha Kathaa by the Noble Bhikkus was transformed in to the concepts of religions of gods. It was the process of writing them in a way which would then be embraced by the ordinary world, ordinary people.
One of the greatest books in Sinhala literature. It takes us back to the post colonial era, a typical Sri lankan village in Southern province. It looks into the concept of class domination in sinahlese culture and how lives are constructed around it.
Forms: A Synopsis with a Transliteration Guide to the Sinhala Script (1976), and Bandara Herath’s Sinhala Script Workbook: Reading and Writing with the Sinhala Alphabet (2009). Literary Sinhala assumes a basic knowledge of colloquial Sinhala, equivalent to that
sacred literature and legends of Theravada. Of the many temples and monasteries in Sri Lanka dating from after this time the only one mentioned here is the Temple of the Tooth, because of its precious relic that goes back to at least to the 4th century CE. This book owes much to people whose names I have forgotten
