Sunday Times 2
161st birth anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala marked with ceremonies in Sri Lanka, India and UK
View(s):- Members of the Maha Bodhi Society of India commemorated the anniversary on September 17 at centres around India.
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Members of the Odisha branch
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Monks and student monks at Sarnath
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At Buddha Gaya
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At the Society's headquarters in Kolkata
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Laying flowers at the statue of the Anagarika Dharmapala at the
Maha Bodhi Mandiraya at Maligakanda, Colombo. -
An alms giving for monks at the Vidyodaya Pirivena by the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust.
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A blessing ceremony by monks from Buddhist temples in the United Kingdom
at the London Buddhist Vihara. -
A memorial lecture by I M Dharmadasa, Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics,
Sheffield Hallam University on the subject 'Buddhism and Climate Change"
at the London Buddhist Vihara.