Narada Maha Thera

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Narada Maha Thera (Sinhala: නාරද මහා ස්ථවිරයන් වහන්සේ), born Sumanapala Perera (14 July 1898 – 2 October 1983[1]) was a Theravada Buddhist monk, scholar, translator, educator and Buddhist missionary who was for many years the Superior of Vajiraramaya in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was a popular figure in his native country, Sri Lanka, and beyond.

Biography

He was born in Kotahena, Colombo to a middle class family,[1] educated at St. Benedict's College and Ceylon University College, and ordained at the age of eighteen.[1]

In 1929 he represented Sri Lanka at the opening ceremony for the new Mulagandhakuti vihara at Sarnath, India,[1] and in 1934 he visited Indonesia, the first Theravadan monk to do so in more than 450 years.[2] During this opportunity, he planted and blessed a Bodhi tree on the southeastern side of Borobudur on 10 March 1934, and some local laypeople were initiated as upāsakas and upāsikās. Later, during the Vesak celebration in 1959, he ordained several upāsakas as sāmaṇeras (novice monks).[3] From that point on he travelled to many countries to conduct missionary work: Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Nepal, and Australia. In 1956, he visited the United Kingdom and the United States, and addressed a huge crowd at the Washington Monument. On 2 November 1960, Narada Maha Thera brought a bodhi tree to the South Vietnamese temple Thích Ca Phật Đài, and made many visits to the country during the 1960s.

Along with others (such as Piyadassi Maha Thera) he contributed to the popularisation of the bana style Dhamma talk in the 1960s and brought the Buddhist teachings "to the day-to-day lives of the Westernized middle class in Sri Lanka".[4]

Bibliography

مراجع

  1. 1 2 3 4 فيهاناج، جوناسيلا. "الراهب الجليل نارادا ماها ثيرا: نبذة سيرية" . مجلد تكريم نارادا. جمعية علم النفس البريطانية . تم الاطلاع عليه في 26 يوليو 2017 .
  2. ↑ رامستيدت، مارتن (2004). الهندوسية في إندونيسيا الحديثة: ديانة أقلية بين المصالح المحلية والوطنية والعالمية . روتليدج . ص 49 وما بعدها. ISBN  978-0415405980.
  3. ↑ "البوذية في إندونيسيا" . موقع Buddhanet. مؤرشف من الأصل بتاريخ 12 نوفمبر 2020. تم الاطلاع عليه بتاريخ 4 مايو 2015 .{{cite journal}}يتطلب الاستشهاد بالمجلة ( مساعدة )|journal=
  4. ↑ ويكريمراتني، سوارنا (2006). بوذا في سريلانكا: ذكريات الأمس . مطبعة جامعة ولاية نيويورك. ص 97. ISBN  978-0791468821.