Excerpted from te authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe (Continued from last week) Thilo continues: “The Ven. Bhikkhu Sumedha, a long-time friend who had grown up in Switzerland, spent his early hermit years as a Buddhist monk at Situlpauwa and at the top of Vedahitikanda. He later obtained higher ordination, and died […]
The Navy apprehended 44 persons who were suspected of trying to leave the country illegally via sea routes, on Sunday (28). They were nabbed during a special search operation conducted by the Navy off Trincomalee, and along the beach area of Valaithottam, Batticaloa. A special search operation was conducted by the Eastern Naval Command off […]
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The river we step in is not the river we stand on By B Nimal Veerasingham Years ago, when visiting New Orleans, Louisiana, I found myself wandering through the sprawling campuses of Loyola University. It is not far from the mighty Mississippi river flowing almost 6,000 km and economically powering significant parts of US Upper […]
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