The Government and the World Buddhist Congress Headquarters will hold the 60th anniversary conference of the World Buddhist Congress in Sri Lanka from November 13 to 17, 2010. The All Ceylon Buddhist Congress will coordinate the conference an All Ceylon Buddhist Congress spokesman told the Daily News.

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Lanka to hold World Buddhist Conference

This book is a unique synthesis and empathetic interpretation of the many facets of Buddhism in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on Thailand. It integrates a kaleidoscopic picture of Buddhism in the region with scholarly interpretation and first-person portrayal. The author focuses his study of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia as a dynamic,

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The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia

Encyclopaedia of Buddhism Vol. 1, edited by G. P. Malalasekera O.B.E in 1965, published by Government of Sri Lanka, clearly states that an Englishman named Charles Henry Allan Bennet, who had been ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma in 1902, returned back to England, eighty nine years ago, to establish the first ever Buddhist Mission in the United Kingdom on 16 July 1908, ‘a belief shared twenty-three years later by the Anagarika Dharmapala when he came to England on a mission from Ceylon.

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WORLD BUDDHIST FOUNDATION IN LONDON CELEBRATES THE UNITED KINGDOM BUDDHIST DAY · WorldBuddhist

World's Buddhist Traditions Pray for Peace and Inter-faith Harmony