How Sri Lanka became a Buddhist Country : Complete Story of Buddhism in Sri Lanka

Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka in the third century BC and soon it took deep roots in the island nation. When Buddhism spread beyond India, the first nation in which it took root was Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is considered to have the oldest continuing Buddhist civilization. The Pali Canon was first written in Sri Lanka. Here Buddhism has survived repeated invasions by colonial forces, large-scale massacres of monks, burnings and destructions of monasteries and libraries and persecution of the lay disciples. At multiple times the persecution of Buddhism on the Island was so complete that hardly a couple of ordained monks survived and Sri Lanka had to import monks from countries like Thailand and Myanmar to save Buddhism from extinction. Let’s understand how Buddhism reached this beautiful island, how it was challenged by Indian Kings and later by European colonial powers and missionaries and how it revived from its ashes.

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Chapters :
0:00 - Intro
2:59 - Buddhism Reaches Sri Lanka
6:30 - Order of Nuns
6:59 - The arrival of the Sacred Bodhi Tree
7:33 - Pali Cannon / The Tripitaka
10:46 - Buddhghosha and Visuddhimagga
11:55 - Colonial Period and Buddhism
15:57 - Revival of Buddhism


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