The Taka Museum is a numismatic museum located in the capital’s Mirpur that displays currencies used in Bangladesh from the ancient times to the present
(A part of this article was deleted due to a technical error, last week. It is reproduced in full today. We regret the error.) By Uditha Devapriya (with Uthpala Wijesuriya) Most accounts of education reform in British Ceylon focus on officials and administrators, rather than the people on the ground and the historical forces […]
By Uditha Devapriya (with Uthpala Wijesuriya) Most accounts of education reform in British Ceylon focus on officials and administrators, rather than the people on the ground and the historical forces they had to contend with. Very little effort, indeed next to no effort, is made to situate reforms in a broader historical context. Works like […]
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But that alone was insufficient to learn Buddhism.
Germans had to touch base with Buddhism in a setting of actual
practice and learn more from teachers well – versed in the Dhamma. The ideal
place was Sri Lanka.
Europeans, especially
Germans, using informal networks visited British Ceylon in the early period to
sap the Wisdom of the East.
They were welcomed in
Buddhist Temples and the ordained German monks were supported by the Sinhala
Buddhist laity.
German Buddhist pioneers like
Dr. Paul Dahlke, Ven. Nyanatiloka, Ven. Nyanaponika, Ven. Gnanawimala etc were
revered by the Buddhist Sinhalese. Nyanatiloka and Nyanaponika were given