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Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera, Don Carolis Hewavitharana ( father of Anagarika Dharmapala ), Andiris Perera Dharmagunawardhana ( maternal grandfather of Anagarika Dharmapala ), William de Abrew, Charles A. de Silva, Peter de Abrew, H. William Fernando, N. S. Fernando and Carolis Pujitha Gunawardena ( secretary ).
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Migettuwatte and Gunananda
In the late 19th century, a national Buddhist movement started, inspired by the American Buddhist Henry Steel Olcott, and empowered by the results of the Panadura debate between a Christian priest and the Buddhist monk Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera.
Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera.
Thera and ),
When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.
Santorini (, pronounced ), classically Thera (), and officially Thira ( Greek: Θήρα ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland.
The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption ( sometimes called the Thera eruption ), which occurred some 3600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization.
The present municipality of Thera ( officially: " Thira ", ), which covers all settlements on the islands of Santorini and Therasia, was formed at the 2011 local government reform, by the merger of the former Oia and Thera municipalities.
Oia is now called a Κοινότητα ( commune ), within the municipality of Thera, and it comprises the local subdivisions () of Therasia and Oia.
The municipality of Thera includes an additional 12 local subdivisions on Santorini island: Akrotiri, Emporio, Episkopis Gonia, Exo Gonia, Imerovigli, Karterados, Megalohori, Mesaria, Pyrgos Kallistis, Thera ( the seat of the municipality ), Vothon, and Vourvoulos.
According to Herodotus ( 4. 149-165 ), following a drought of seven years, Thera sent out colonists who founded a number of cities in northern Africa, including Cyrene.
* c. 4000 BC — First neolithic settlers in the island of Thera ( Santorini ), Greece, migrating probably from Minoan Crete.
* c. 1700 BC: 1450 BC: Young girl gathering saffron crocus flowers, detail of wall painting, Room 3 of House Xeste 3, Akrotiri ( Santorini ), Thera, is made.
* Before 1630 BC – 1500 BC — Landscape ( Spring fresco ), wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction from Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades, is made.
* c. 1650 BC – " Flotilla " fresco, from Room 5 of West House, Akrotiri ( Santorini ), Thera, is made.
The clod is accidentally washed overboard and carried to the island Thera, and Libya is colonized from that island by Battus of Thera, an alleged distant descendant of Euphemus ( by 17 generations ), who founds Cyrene.
When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorini ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.
Cyrene was founded in 630 BC as a settlement of Greeks from the Greek island of Thera ( Santorini ), traditionally led by Battus I, at a site ten miles from its associated port, Apollonia ( Marsa Sousa ).
One of the more accomplished products of the time is the Thera kouros ( NAMA 8 ), softer and less muscular in modeling it is more Ionian than Dorian though Thera was a Dorian colony.
Speculation regarding the Deucalion myth has also been introduced, whereby a large tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea, caused by the Thera eruption ( with an approximate geological date of 1630 – 1600 BCE ), is the myth's historical basis.
* Akrotiri ( Santorini ), Thera
Other islands included Andros ( held by Dandolo ), Tinos, Mykonos, Skiathos, Skyros, Skopelos, Serifos, Cea ( held by the Ghisi brothers ), Thera ( held by Jacopo Barozzi ), Anaphe ( held by Leonardo Foscolo ), Kythera ( or Cerigo held by Marco Venier ), and Antikythera ( or Cerigotto, held by Jacopo Viaro ).
Thera and .
Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415 – 413 BC.
The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.
Theravadin bhikku and scholar Walpola Rahula ( Sri Rahula Maha Thera ) has stated that the bodhisattva ideal has traditionally been held to be higher than the state of a śrāvaka not only in Mahāyāna, but also in Theravāda Buddhism.
Theran wizards and politicians warned many of the outlying nations around Thera of the coming of the Horrors, offering the protection of the kaers to those who would pledge their loyalty to the Empire.
Kallisti ) is also an ancient name for the isle of Thera.
* Akrotiri – On the island of Thera, Greece.
The region first became volcanically active around 3 – 4 million years ago, though volcanism on Thera began around 2 million years ago with the extrusion of dacitic lavas from vents around the Akrotiri.
Another popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.
The name Thera was revived in the nineteenth century as the official name of the island and its main city, but the colloquial name Santorini is still in popular use.
Thera is built upon a small, non-volcanic basement that represents the former non-volcanic island, which was approximately.
The large island to the east is Thera, with Aspronisi and Therasia making up the rest of the caldera ring, clockwise.
Excavations starting in 1967 at the site called Akrotiri under the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known " Minoan " site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture.
The island was not known as Thera at this time.
Only the southern tip of a large town has been uncovered, yet it has revealed complexes of multi-level buildings, streets, and squares with remains of walls standing as high as eight metres, all entombed in the solidified ash of the famous eruption of Thera.
If aspirated, * Qhera-would have become " Thera -" in later Greek.
Over the centuries after the general catastrophes of 1200 BC, Phoenicians founded a site on Thera.
Today, that city is referred to as Ancient Thera.
Thera and Peter
Claims that the Thera eruption is the subject of the Tempest Stele of Ahmose I have been disputed by writers such as Peter James
Thera and H
His contemporaries at the University included Venerable P. Panananda Nayaka Thera of Colombo, Venerable Dr. H. Saddhatissa Maha Thera ( who later became head of the London Buddhist Vihara ), Venerable Dr. U. Dhammaratana and the late Venerable Dr. Amritananda Thera, former head of the Sangha of Nepal.
Thera and S
It was founded in Sri Lanka in 1958 by two Sri Lankan Buddhist laymen, A. S. Karunaratna and Richard Abeyasekera, and a European-born Buddhist monk, Nyanaponika Thera.
The Society publishes works by a number of noted Theravada monks and lay writers, including books by Nyanaponika Thera, Nyanatiloka Thera, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Piyadassi Thera, Bhikkhu Ñanamoli, Narada Mahathera, Mahasi Sayadaw, Helmuth Hecker, S. Dhammika and Francis Story.
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