• Upali Thera (Thai: อุบาลี, RTGS: Ubali) was a Thai Theravada monk and founder of the Siam Nikaya order of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. He visited Kandy in 1753...
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  • within Sri Lankan Buddhism, founded by Upali Thera of Siyam, on the initiatives taken by Weliwita Sri Saranankara thera to revive Buddhism in Sri Lanka in...
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    Upāli (Sanskrit and Pāli) was a monk, one of the ten chief disciples of the Buddha and, according to early Buddhist texts, the person in charge of the...
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    Rajasinha of Kandy Kingdom. (1747 - 1782) according to the request of Upali Thera, a Buddhist monk from Konbaung Burma. Polkeliya "coconut fight", Gammaduwa...
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  • musician Upali Kodituwakku (born 1964), Sri Lankan cricketer Upali Rajakaruna (born 1975), Sri Lankan wheelchair tennis player Upali Thera (fl. 1753)...
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    goes back more than 1,500 years. It was also through the efforts of Upali Thera that the Kandy Esala Perahera came into being. This procession was originally...
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    sent a delegation of twenty, headed by Upali Maha Thera to Sri Lanka. Two years later the delegation with Upali Thera was able to set sail back to Sri Lanka...
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    1962, p. 262. Malalasekera 1937, Upāli. Malalasekera 1937, Upāli; Upāli Sutta (3). Freedman 1977, p. 58. Mrozik 2004, Upāli. Baroni 2002, p. 365. Huxley 2010...
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    huge crowd at the Washington Monument. On 2 November 1960, Narada Maha Thera brought a bodhi tree to the South Vietnamese temple Thích Ca Phật Đài, and...
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  • Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera is the Chief Incumbent (Chief Priest) of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara and Head of the Buddhist and Pali Faculty...
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