The Maha Bodhi Society of India successfully organized a two-day Kathina Chivara Dana ceremony at its Buddha Gaya Centre on ...

Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.

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In 1330-1331 during the Yuan Dynasty, a large-scale bronze image of the Buddha attaining Nirvana was cast, and from that time on, the temple was popularly called the Temple of the Reclining Buddha.

Click on the 'Speaker' icon on the photo above to listen to the SBS Sinhala Radio interview with the lyrist of this trilogy, Dr. Mahendra Samarawickrama from Sydney. SBS Sinhala ‘My song ...