In 245 BC, bhikkhuni Sangamitta arrived with the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, which is considered to be a sapling from the historical Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha became enlightened.

The oldest living plant of known planting date is a Ficus religiosa tree known as the Sri Maha Bodhi planted in the temple at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka by King Tissa in 288 BC.

* Sri Maha Bodhi – another F. religiosa.

* The Sri Maha Bodhi Sacred Fig tree is planted at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

Initially, the LTTE gained prominence due to devastating attacks such as the Kent and Dollar Farm massacres of 1984, where hundreds of men, women and children were attacked during the night as they slept and were hacked to death with fatal blows to the head from axes ; and the Anuradhapura massacre of 1985, where they indiscriminately opened fire, killing and wounding 146 civilians within Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Buddhist shrine.

This tree was originally a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka, itself grown from a sapling of the original Bodhi tree.

Mahabodhi's first head monk under the management committee was Anagarika Munindra, a Bengali man who had been an active member of the Maha Bodhi Society.

The Bodhi tree at the Mahabodhi Temple is called the Sri Maha Bodhi.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Sri Maha Bodhi in Sri Lanka was planted in 288 BC, making it the oldest verified specimen of any angiosperm.

In 1913, Anagarika Dharmapala took a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi to Hawai ' i, where he presented it to his benefactor, Mary Foster – who had funded much Buddhist missionary work.

He also edited the Maha Bodhi Journal and established a magazine, Stepping Stones.

It symbolizes the first Bodhi tree planted about 2000 years ago in the temple Wat Si Maha Phot.

After a protracted struggle, this was successful only after Indian independence ( 1947 ) and sixteen years after Dharmapala's own death ( 1933 ), with the partial restoration of the site to the management of the Maha Bodhi Society in 1949.

" Henry Steel Olcott, Anagarika Dharmapala and the Maha Bodhi Society.

The Buddhist revival began in India in 1891, when the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala founded the Maha Bodhi Society The Maha Bodhi Society mainly attracted upper-caste people.

Prominent figures in the movement include Robert Aitken Roshi, Joanna Macy, Gary Snyder, Alan Senauke, Sulak Sivaraksa, Maha Ghosananda, Sylvia Wetzel, Joan Halifax, Tara Brach, Taigen Dan Leighton, Ken Jones, and Bhikkhu Bodhi.

The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society founded by the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala and the British journalist and poet Sir Edwin Arnold.

After a protracted struggle this was successful with the partial restoration of the site to the management of the Maha Bodhi Society in 1949.

* Maha Abdelrahman, Civil Society Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in Egypt, The American University in Cairo Press, 2004.

Mahabodhi's first head monk under the management committee was Anagarika Munindra, a Bengali man who had been an active member of the Maha Bodhi Society.

Maha Bodhi Society branches have been established in several countries, most significantly in India and Sri Lanka.

The Maha Bodhi Society has a robust tradition of publications, spanning from Pali translations into modern Indian vernacular languages ( such as Hindi ) to scholarly texts and new editions of Pali works typeset in Devanagari to appeal to a Hindi-educated Indian audience.

As of, the Maha Bodhi Society of India's general secretary is Dombagoda Rewatha Thero.

There is also a Maha Bodhi Society of Bangalore, founded by Acharya Buddharakkhita in 1956, which is not a part of or tied to the Maha Bodhi Society of India or Sri Lanka.

At a meeting in September 2008, the Maha Bodhi Society passed a rule that only persons born into Buddhist families will be eligible to serve as president or as one of the vice-presidents of the Society.

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The Buddhist revival then began in India, when he founded the Maha Bodhi Society.

He received his higher education in Sri Lanka at Vidyalankara College in Kelaniya and the Buddhist Missionary College ( an affiliate of the Maha Bodhi Society ) in Colombo.

thumbIn many Buddhist countries, the concept of the nāga has been merged with local traditions of great and wise serpents or dragons, as depicted in this stairway image of a multi-headed nāga emerging from the mouth of a Makara in the style of a Chinese dragon at Phra Maha Chedi Chai Mongkol on the premises of Wat Pha Namthip Thep Prasit Vararam in Thailand's Roi Et Province Nong Phok District.

* Maha Ati, one of the nine subdivisions of Buddhist Tantra in the Nyingma school

* Maha Nikaya an order of Theravada Buddhist monks in Cambodia.

There are several prominent Karen Buddhist monks, including Thuzana ( S ' gaw ) and Zagara, who was conferred the " Agga Maha Saddammajotika " title by the Burmese government in 2004.

He had the Kaba Aye Pagoda and the Maha Pasana Guha ( Great Cave ) built in 1952 in preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Synod that he convened and hosted in 1954 – 1956 as prime minister.

He authorized the construction of the Maha Passana Guha, the " great cave ", an artificial cave very much like India's Sattapanni Cave where the first Buddhist Council had been held.

In Buddhist literature, the Greek ( Pali: Yona, lit: " Ionian ") Buddhist monk Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus ), with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka:

The Maha Vihara Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

His articles were published in many Buddhist journals such as the Maha Bodhi, and the German journal Der Kreis published by his Buddhist Order Arya Maitreya Mandala.

* Puttalai Maha Vidyalayam Old Students ' Association ( UK )

And within it is the Sri chakra. In the center of Sri Chakra on the throne of Pancha brahmas on the Bindu Peeta ( dot plank ) called sarvanandamaya ( universal happiness ) Sits Maha Tripura Sundari. In the Sri Chakra are the following decorations viz., The square called Trilokya mohanam ( most beautiful in the three worlds ), The sixteen petalled lotus called Sarvasa paripoorakam ( fulfiller of all desires ), the eight petalled lotus called Sarvasamksopanam ( the all cleanser ), the sixteen corner figure called Sarva sowbagyam ( all luck ), the external ten cornered figure called Sarvartha sadhakam ( giver of all assets ), the internal ten cornered figure called Sarva raksha karam ( All protector ), the eight cornered figure called Sarva roka haram ( cure of all diseases ), triangle called Sarva siddhi pradam ( giver of all powers ) and the dot called Sarvananda mayam ( all pleasures ).

All join in this final procession shouting " Ganapati Bappa Morya, Pudhachya Varshi Laukar ya " ( O lord Ganesha, come again early next year ) in Maharashtra and " Ganesh Maha Raj ki, Jai " ( lord Ganesha, victory is yours ) in Andhra Pradesh.

Every year during the Tamil month Masi Chariot festival is conducted called Masi Maha Ther ( chariot ) festival. The flag hoisting is done by the Agamudayar Tuluvelar Community and honoured. Annapachi Vahana is decorated and Lord Theerthagirieswar with his concert Vadiudayammal shall be steered by this Agamudayar Community. All other communities follow the festival for Ten days. The is managed by the Executive Officer of Tamil Nadu Govt ..