Some countries, including Finland, India, Pakistan, Russia, Brazil and Sri Lanka, as well as San Francisco in USA and Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia, use broad gauge.

Some of them are: Ghosha, Godha, Gargi, Vishwawra, Apala, Upanishad, Brahmjaya, Aditi, Indrani, Sarma, Romsha, Maitreyi, Kathyayini, Urvashi, Lopamudra, Yami, Shashwati, Sri, Laksha and many others.

Some of the stronger and more influential trade unions include the Ceylon Mercantile Union, Sri Lanka Nidhahas Sevaka Sangamaya, Jathika Sevaka Sangayama, Ceylon Federation of Trade Unions, Ceylon Bank Employees Union, Union of Post and Telecommunication Officers, Conference of Public Sector Independent Trade Unions, and the JVP-aligned Inter-Company Trade Union.

Some of the Sinhalese community in the UK have faced violence from some British Sri Lankan tamils over the ethnic conflict in the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Some countries ( including Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Malaysia ) celebrated Vesākha on the 1st, while others ( Thailand, Singapore ) celebrated the holiday on the 31st due to different local lunar observance.

Some other countries such as Sri Lanka have also begun to cultivate it.

Some scholars such as Sri Yukteswar Giri and David Frawley have claimed that there are intermediate cycles within the 432, 000 year cycle.

Some name registries are government departments ( e. g., the registry for Sri Lanka nic. lk ).

* Some Sri Lankans note the time and day of menarche.

Some scholars still use the term Australoid to denote the small populations, mainly of some of the Adivasi and the Andamanese people in India and the Veddas in Sri Lanka.

Some relics believed to be original remains of the body of the Buddha still survive, including the much-revered Sacred Relic of the tooth of the Buddha in Sri Lanka.

Some of them were Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ramana Maharshi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Some internationally known Sri Lankan metal bands include Stigmata, Chitral Somapala, Whirlwind, Old Castles Massacre, Funeral In Heaven, Paranoid Earthling.

Some of the famous junior colleges of Bangalore include Christ Junior College, St. Joseph's College, Vijaya College and Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College.

Some males may also lack tusks ; these individuals are called " filsy makhnas ", and are especially common among the Sri Lankan elephant population.

Some of the important publications are Asamiya Larar Mitra by Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan ( 1849 ), Larabodh Byakaran by Dharmeswar Goswami ( 1884 ), Prakrit Bhugol by Lambodara Datta ( 1884 ) and several volumes of Sri Sankardev's Kirattan, Gunamala, Srimad Bhagavad, Bargit, Rukmini Haran Nat, and Ankiyanat.

Some of the rare and important works in this collection are: A Grammar of the Bengal Language ( 1778 ) by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, which is the earliest printed book in Bengali, Henry Forster ’ s A Vocabulary in Two parts, English and Bangalee ( 1799 ), William Carrey ’ s Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengali Language ( 1801 ), Ram Ram Basu ’ s Raja Pratapaditya Charitra ( 1801 ), Mrityunjay Vidyalankar ’ s Batris Simhansan ( 1802 ), Ramayana translated by Krittibas and published in five volumes, Mahabharat translated by Kashi Ram Das ( 1802 ), Chandicharan Munshi ’ s Tota Itihas ( 1805 ), Jayanarayan Ghosal ’ s Sri Karunanidhanavilasa ( 1814 ), William Carey ’ s Dictionary of the Bengali Language, 2 volumes ( 1815-1825 ).

Some rulers grant awards which carry highest titles unique to that state, such as Dato ' Sri Utama of the state of Negeri Sembilan.

Some authorities treat the genus as containing only one species Elettaria cardamomum, while others separate Sri Lankan plants out as a separate species Elettaria repens Sonner.

Some other famous plays were Mricchakatika by Shudraka, Svapna Vasavadattam by Bhasa, and Ratnavali by Sri Harsha.

Some of the notable places one can see these vari-coloured fish includes the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Sipidan off the southern coast of Sabah, Malaysia.

Some recent projects have included: Helping rehabilitate a tsunami-struck school in Sri Lanka, performing plays for children in Bangkok, working with children at the Christina Noble Children's Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City and travelling to North Korea to learn about life and affairs in a country that much of the world knows little about, and working in several children's orphanages run by the Happy Tree Organisation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Some very famous concert kritis included Marubalka in Sri Ranjani raga which many Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer fan's treasure.

Some of the countries taking part in the highway project are India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, China, Japan, South Korea and Bangladesh.

Some of the Sri Lankan dishes have striking resemblance to Kerala cuisine, which could be due to the similar geographic and agricultural features with Kerala.

Some Buddhists point to other early texts as justifying defensive war.

Some Buddhists have argued on this basis that the act of killing is complicated, and its ethicization is predicated upon intent.

Some Mahayana Buddhists in China, Japan and Vietnam specifically avoid eating strong-smelling plants, traditionally garlic, Allium chinense, asafoetida, shallot, and mountain leek, and refer to these as wǔ hūn ( 五荤, or ' Five Acrid and Strong-smelling Vegetables ') or wǔ xīn ( 五辛 or ' Five Spices ') as they tend to excite senses.

Some of these Buddhist vegetarian chefs are in the many monasteries which serve wu hun and mock-meat ( also known as ' meat analogues ') dishes to the monks and visitors ( including non-Buddhists who often stay for a few hours or days, to Buddhists who are not monks, but staying overnight for anywhere up to weeks or months ).

Some Buddhists eat vegetarian only once per week or month, or on special occasions such as annual visits to an ancestor's grave.

Some Theravada Buddhists have opposed the identification of Theravada with Hinayana, as it is seen as more of a derogatory term.

Some Buddhists believe that when one of their adherents departs from this world, they are placed by Guanyin in the heart of a lotus, and then sent to the western pure land of Sukhāvatī.

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

Some The doctrinal problem of sangha-as-gem-to-be-revered they solve in two ways: firstly by stressing that the arya sangha is a much greater refuge than the lower levels of sangha, and secondly by stressing that sangha denotes the sacred dimensions of gathering as a community of Buddhists, in contrast with its more mundane dimensions.

Some devout Buddhists will wear a simple white dress and spend the whole day in temples with renewed determination to observe the eight Precepts.

Some Buddhists meditate on ( or contemplate ) the Buddha as having ten characteristics ( Ch ./ Jp.

Some Hindus believe the Buddha accepted and incorporated many tenets of Hinduism in his doctrine, however, Buddhists disagree and state there was no such thing as Hinduism at the time of Buddha and in fact, " Indeed, it absorbed so many Buddhist traits that it is virtually impossible to distinguish the latter in medieval and later Hinduism.

Some South Korean Buddhists have denounced what they view as discriminatory measures against them and their religion by the administration of President Lee Myung-bak, which they attribute to Lee being a Protestant.

Some Western Buddhists are actually non-denominational and accept teachings from a variety of different sects, which is far less frequent in Asia.

Some historians strike a middle ground, saying that Qasim was torn between the political expediency of making peace with the Hindus and Buddhists ; having to call upon non-Muslims to serve under him as part of his mandate to administer newly conquered land ; and orthodoxy by refraining from seeking the co-operation of " infidels ".

Some Buddhists often attempt to maintain that the minds are equal to the atoms of mereological nihilist reality, but Buddhists seem to have no explanation of how this is the case, and much of the literature on the aforementioned Buddhists involves straightforward discussion of atoms and minds as if they are separate.

Some Mahāyāna Buddhists in China and Vietnam also avoid eating strong-smelling plants such as onion, garlic, chives, shallot, and leek, and refer to these as wu hun ( 五葷, ' Five Spices ').

Some historians have rejected Pushyamitra's persecution of Buddhists.

Some Patuas are Hindus, while others are Muslims and Buddhists.

Some Jewish Buddhists claim that the two religions are compatible, while other Jews believe this represents a serious adulteration of both traditions.

Some practitioners, for example, Chinese Buddhists use the singing bowl to accompany the wooden fish during chanting, striking it when a particular phrase is chanted.