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Thai Princess brings unified Thripitaka in English President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga will receive the first issue of the English translation of the Thripitaka from Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand in a ceremony at the BMICH today March 6. Buddhists particularly in Sri Lanka and others world over in general would observe this presentation as a historic moment, a Presidential Secretariat press release stated. The new unified English publication of all Thripitakas of the Theravada Buddhism that have been in use in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka would help propagate the Dhamma among the international community as English is widely spoken in many parts of the world. A team of members of the Thai Thripitaka Committee presented a manuscript of this issue which they compiled for over five years to President Kumaratunga when the visiting group met the latter during their tour in Sri Lanka last year. The meeting for the Maniratne Bunnag Buddhist Society represented by several members of the Royal Family of Thailand under the patronage of Thailand Sangharaja His Holiness Somdet Psra Mana was coordinated by Sri Sambodhi Viharadhipathi Ven. Dharanagama Kusaladhamma Thera, the release stated. |
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