The concept of AtamasthanaJanbudveepaya (Part II)
Even during the time that Buddha lived in this Helabima, the people in the Buddhist world had a practice of worshipping Atamasthana. The most ancient text called Hasthasalieni written in Lanka says that following the eight-fold path found in Buddha Dhamma it was…
Methods of worshiping Buddha prevailed in the initial periods in HeladivaJanbudveepaya (Part II)
Even in the time that Gautama Buddha lived in Janbudveepa in Helabima, the followers of Dhamma– the Buddhist – wanted to pay their homage to Buddha and for that purpose they had few objects of offerings which were allowed, recommended by Buddha…
Worshipping Buddha and worshipping Buddha statuesJanbudveepaya (Part II)
A very long period of 650 years, the day that Gautama Buddha started to preach his Dhamma in 589 BC and until the reign of King Kanishka in India, a custom or a practice of worshipping of Buddha statues was not known…
The glory of Helabima before the dawn of the Kingdom of AnuradhapuraJanbudveepaya (Part II)
In many occasions in Anuradhapura period, in the times of well advanced kingdoms in Deva Hela in prior to Pre-Vijayan period, in the well advanced kingdoms prevailed in Ruhuna & the east, well preserved and precious books, texts & documents written in Hela…
Atuwa, Teeka, Tippani and SammathaJanbudveepaya (Part II)
The most supermandane Buddha Dhamma preached by Gautama Buddha using Maghadi verses were analyzed & described as Artha & Darma by some disciples of the Buddha, The Eighty Great Disciples[1], and were taken in to the texts in Hela language and called Hela Commentaries.…