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First man on the Moon - Neil Armstrong (1930 -
2012):
Earth’s ultimate hero
The plaque on which these words have been
inscribed still lies somewhere in the Sea of Tranquillity on the
Earth’s only natural satellite, the Moon. We have still not
conquered any other world ‘in the flesh’, though our robotic probes
are out there doing great work.
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Dhajagga Sutta:
The Triple Gem will protect everybody
Dhajagga Sutta derides the belief in the power
of devas. In the Sutta, the Enlightened One, emphasises that the
highest refuges are the Triple Gem. It may be a revolutionary step
of the Buddha to look down upon the old beliefs and to establish the
greatness of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, the Triple Gem. It is a
satire on the old beliefs
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Kandy's Bahirawakanda steeped in legend
Kandy or Mahanuwara is very much in the news during the Kandy
Esala Perahera. It is universally accepted as the most significant
religious-cum-cultural pageant with unsurpassed grandeur in the
whole of Asia.
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