A study team comprising E Siva Nagi Reddy, archaeologist, and CEO of The Cultural Centre of Vijayawada and Amaravati (CCVA), Subhakar Medasani, secretary of Vijayawada Buddha Vihara, and Govardhan, member, found the ancient Buddhist site while exploring villages in Atchampet mandal as part of ...
owing to the fact that neither in the Dipavamsa nor in the Mahavamsa is any mention made of such a place as Mulagiri. But that rock has been the abode of Buddhist monks from very early times is proved by the ancient inscriptions to be found there; and...
Mobile missionaries and merchant travellers were then part of the Indianisation of mainland SE Asia18 and later the establishment of a hybrid Mahavihara19 version of what today we refer to as Theravada Buddhism. This was known as Lankavamsa/Lankawong, the medieval Sri Lankan lineage. The “...
Buddhism clearly expresses the equivalence between the ascetic and the forest dweller in the Snp, although with some notable differences. An ascetic should do like an elephant, who “stays where it wants in the forest” (yathābhirantaṃ viharaṃ araññe, Snp 1.3). The animal metaphor ...