For the next seven years, Venerable Dhammananda attended a diploma programme at the Vidyalanka Pirivena where he studied Sanskrit, the Pali Tipitaka and Buddhist Philosophy, besides other secular subjects.

His principal tutor at the Institute was Venerable Lunupokune Sri Dhammananda, an eminent scholar monk.

In 1945 Venerable Dhammananda furthered his tertiary education at the Benares Hindu University in India where he was awarded a scholarship.

Venerable Dhammananda studied four years at the university graduating with a Master of Arts degree in Indian Philosophy in 1949.

Having completed his studies, Venerable Dhammananda returned to Ceylon.

From among 400 monks at the Vidyalankara Pirivena, Venerable Dhammananda was selected for the mission to Malaya.

Such was the situation when Venerable Dhammananda set sail from Ceylon on January 2, 1952 for Malaya.

Upon his arrival in Penang on January 5, 1952, Venerable Dhammananda stayed at the Mahindarama Buddhist Temple.

It was a practical arrangement, with Venerable Gunaratana concentrating his missionary efforts in Penang while Venerable Dhammananda focussed on the Kuala Lumpur area.

Having come to serve the Buddhist community in Malaya, Venerable Dhammananda wasted no time in planning out the religious activities at the Temple.

Venerable Dhammananda arrived in Malaya in 1952, first stopping in Penang before taking up residence at the Brickfields Temple, Kuala Lumpur.

Even Venerable Dhammananda could not have envisaged the success of the BMS today.

The BMS, under the spiritual guidance of Venerable Dhammananda, has targeted the younger generation in its many activities.

On the occasion of the opening ceremony for the Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Hsuan Hua presented Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda of the Theravada tradition with an honorary Ph. D.

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Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

The Venerable Leo Dupont also known as The Holy Man of Tours lived in Tours at about the same time.

An example is the Rosary of the Holy Wounds first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a Roman Catholic nun of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France.

* St. Augustine of Canterbury is said by the Venerable Bede to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, within the parish of Minster, before beginning his mission in Canterbury.

In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.

Another help was the cure of the near-dying Venerable Pauline Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, at Philomena's shrine on 10 August 1835.

He then attended the College of the Venerable Bede at the University of Durham, but never graduated.

The Duke of Gloucester at Christ Church Cathedral ( St. Louis, Missouri ) | Christ Church Cathedral, wearing the robes of the Venerable Order of Saint John | Order of Saint John, on 4 November 2006.

Finally, Venerable Pope Pius XII, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pope Pius IX's institution of the Feast, instructed the entire Roman Catholic Church at length on the devotion to the Sacred Heart in his encyclical letter Haurietis aquas ( on May 15, 1956 ).

The translation was made at the behest of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, and currently exists in the Bibliothèque de l ' Arsenal in Paris.

Travelling to Rome in 1416, she stayed at the Venerable English College.

As for the mason-and-mortar Buddha image enshrined in the vihara at the Sri Mongkol Temple, the inhabitants of the realm named it Phra Chao Ong Luang ( พระเจ ้ าองค ์ หลวง ), or Venerable Holy One, and made it the representative image of Wat Sri Mongkol, which itself was later renamed to Wat Sri Mongkol South ; this Buddha image has been associated with the settlement and realm ever since.

* Venerable Order of Saint John, an English order of chivalry, parent body of St John Ambulance, at some time considered to be a langue of the Knights Hospitaller ; or

Duncan's personal influence and some happy displays of his vast personal strength held the crew of the Venerable to their duty ; but with one other exception, that of the Adamant, the ships refused to quit their anchorage at Yarmouth, leaving the Venerable and Adamant alone to keep up the pretence of the blockade.

At first he was anxious to bring up his fleet in a compact body, for at best his numbers were not more than equal to those of the Dutch ; but seeing the absolute necessity of immediate action, without waiting for the ships astern to come up, without waiting to form line of battle, and with the fleet in very irregular order of sailing, in two groups, led respectively by himself in the Venerable and Vice-admiral Richard Onslow in the Monarch, he made the signal to pass through the enemy's line and engage to leeward.

In September 2007 the current vicar, Archdeacon the Venerable David Meara, announced a special appeal to raise 3. 5 million GBP to preserve the church's unique heritage and on November 2007 The Queen was guest of honour at a service to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the restoration work necessary after the Second World War.

After this role Lazenby began to study drama at Durham University's College of the Venerable Bede.

The Venerable Bede's story of the cattleman and later ecclesiastical musician Caedmon indicates that in the early medieval period it was normal at feasts to pass around the harp and sing ' vain and idle songs '.

He was also a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jesuralem, and became Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific at Suva, which was founded with the support of his government.

He was the son of William John Hamilton ( Member of Parliament for Newport, Isle of Wight ), son of William Richard Hamilton ( Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office ), son of the Venerable Anthony Hamilton ( Archdeacon of Colchester ), son of Alexander Hamilton, younger son of the aforementioned William Hamilton, 3rd of Wishaw.

The Venerable Mother Catherine Elizabeth McAuley ( born on 29 September 1778, at Stormanstown House, in Dublin, Ireland – died 11 November 1841, at the House of Mercy she had built on Baggot Street, Dublin ) was an Irish nun, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831.

Adtwifyrdi is the name used by the Venerable Bede to describe the meeting of river and tributary at the mouth of the River Aln.

* Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda.

* c. 220 BCE: Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, son of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of King Devanampiya Tissa.

Her experiences led her to become a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979, when she was given the name of " Khema " ( Ayya means Venerable ) meaning safety and security.

The version of the scriptures that had been established at the third council, including the vinaya, sutta and the abhidhamma ( collectively known as " tripiṭaka "), was taken to Sri Lanka by Emperor Aśoka's son, the Venerable Mahinda.

According to traditional Sri Lankan chronicles ( such as the Dipavamsa ), Buddhism was introduced into Sri Lanka in the 4th century BCE by Venerable Mahinda, the son of the Emperor Ashoka, during the reign of Sri Lanka's King Devanampiya Tissa.

In 1952, Venerable K. Sri Pannasara Nayaka Thera, head of the Vidyalanakara Pirivena, received an invitation from the Sasana Abhiwurdhi Wardhana Society of Malaya requesting for a resident monk to administer to the religious needs of the Sinhalese Buddhist community in the country.