{"id":19662,"date":"2013-04-07T04:29:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T08:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=19662"},"modified":"2013-04-07T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T11:48:38","slug":"sri-lankan-scholar-madulugiriye-wijerathne-honoured-with-award-in-tamil-nadu-for-propagation-of-buddhism-through-tamil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=19662","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Scholar Madulugiriye Wijerathne Honoured with Award in Tamil Nadu for Propagation of Buddhism Through Tamil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MW040613TI.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MW040613TI.jpg\" alt=\"MW040613TI\" width=\"282\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe famed Tamil Language scholar and Tamil Pandit Madulugiriye Wijerathne was honoured with the Buddha\u2019s Light Award for the monumental contribution he has made for the propagation of Buddhism through the Tamil Language.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The coveted Buddha\u2019s Light Award is presented by the Chennai Chapter of the Buddha\u2019s Light International Association affiliated to the United Nations Organization\u2019s Economic and Social Council.The presentation of the award was held at the International Buddhist Conference Hall in Chennai, Tamil Nadu recently.<\/p>\n<p>Wijerathne is pictured here receiving the award from a member of the Tamil Nadu State Assembly Y. S. Tamilarasar. Also in the picture are L-R Professor Kaliyape of the Tamil Nadu State\u2019s Buddhist Research Institute, the Chief Incumbent of Dharma Vijaya Viharaya, Madurai, Ven. Dr. Madurai Bodhipala Thera, Dr. K. Jayabalan of Indian State Art College.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19681\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MS040613A.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19681\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MS040613A.jpg\" alt=\"Madulugiriye Wijerathne\" width=\"150\" height=\"223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19681\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madulugiriye Wijerathne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the first time a Sri Lankan has been honoured by Buddha\u2019s Light International Association while it is for the second time that Wijerathne\u2019s capabilities has been recognized at an international level. <em>COURTESY:THE ISLAND <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton19662\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D19662&amp;text=Sri%20Lankan%20Scholar%20Madulugiriye%20Wijerathne%20Honoured%20with%20Award%20in%20Tamil%20Nadu%20for%20Propagation%20of%20Buddhism...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed Tamil Language scholar and Tamil Pandit Madulugiriye Wijerathne was honoured with the Buddha\u2019s Light Award for the monumental contribution he has made for the propagation of Buddhism through the Tamil Language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19679,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions\/19679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}