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දඹදිව සදහම් සුවඳ - දඹදිව පුන්‍ය භූමිය වන්දනා කිරීමට යන බැතිමතුන්ට එම ස්ථාන පිළිබද මනා අවබෝධයක් තිබිය යුතුය. ඒ පුණ්‍ය ස්ථානවල එදා බුදුන් වහන්සේ ජීවමාන කාලයේ සිදුවූ විශේෂිත වූ කතා පුවත් දැන ගැනීම සද්ධාව වර්ධනයට මහෝපකාරී වේ. ඒ සදහා මේ බණ පොත අත්පොතක් වශයෙන් දඹදිව වන්දනාවේ යන සෑම දෙනාටම එක සේ ප‍්‍රයෝජනවත් වේ. 

අසිරිමත් දඹදිව - දඹදිව වන්දනාවේ යෙදෙන සැදැහැවතුන්ට අත්‍යවශ්‍ය තොරතුරු ඇතුළත් කොට ඉතා සරල බසින් ලියාවුණකි.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වන්දනා ගමන් මග - වන්දනාවේ යන සැදැහැවතුනට කල්තබා තම ගමන් මග පිළියෙළ කර ගැනීම සඳහා ප්‍රයෝජනවත් වන අයුරින් මෙය සම්පාදනය කරන ලදී. සෑම වැදගත් ස්ථානයක් පිළිබඳව ම ඓතිහාසික විස්තරයක් ද නවාතැන් පහසුකම් ආදී තොරතුරු ද මෙහි ඇතුලත් වෙයි..

සිංහල දිව්‍යාවදානය - පාඨකයන්ගේ කියවීමේ රුචිය වර්ධනය කරනු උදෙසා මෙම සිංහල දිව්‍යාවදානය ග්‍රන්ථය නව සංස්කරණයකින් හා සමාලෝචනයකින් යුතුව පාඨක ඔබට ගෙන එනු ලබයි.

සුන්දර ලා ඕසය - සංචාරය කිරීම සදහා ඉතා සුදුසුම රටක් වන ලාඕසය පිලිබදව දැනගත යුතු බොහෝ කරුණු, දැනගත යුතු බොහෝ ස්ථාන පිලිබද විස්තර ඡායාරූපද සහිතව ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති සුවිශේෂී වූ කෘතියකි.

මහා කාලසේන - මෙම ග්‍රන්ථය ඉතිහාස ග්‍රන්ථයක් නොවුනත් වල දමා ඇති අපේ සැබෑ ඉතිහාසය මතුකරමින් ලියූ ඓතිහාසික නවකතාවකි. මෙහි එන සියලු චරිත මහාවංශයට, සිංහල බෝධිවංශයට හා ප්‍රකාශිත ලේඛනයන්ට අනුකූල වේ. 

Middle Land Middle Way - A comprehensive guidebook to the places in India made sacred by the Buddha’s presence. Beginning with an inspiring account of Buddhist pilgrimage, the author then covers sixteen places in detail. With maps and colour photos, an essential companion for pilgrim and traveler.

Sacred Island - This travel and pilgrimage guidebook is meant primarily for Buddhists or those interested in Buddhism who wish to explore Sri Lanka’s rich cultural and spiritual heritage. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the island, the author weaves together archaeological findings, art history and the stories and legends of the Buddhist tradition to bring to life thirty-three places of religious significance.

Buddhism In East Asia - Book Summary of Buddhism In East Asia An Outline Of Buddhism In The History And Culture Of The Peoples Of East Asia Buddhism in East Asia does not pretend to be the outcome of "fundamental research". Its main purpose is to collate, arrange and evaluate facts which specialists in the field have brought to light-and in such a way as to hold the general reader. There is little of critical apparatus and scholarly dissertation to confound him. In lively fashion, and with well-chosen illustrations to support his interest, the book takes him through a fascinating journey in time and space, through Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Chinese Turkestan, Japan and Tibet; it appraises the role and place of Buddhism in the different stages of their evolution in a broad and colorful sweep.

The Springs of Sinhala Civilization - This is a treatise on the ancient system of irrigation that formed the core of Sinhala civilization during the Anuradhapura period of Sri Lanka by one of the foremost acknowledged masters of the subject.

Essays in Archaeology : In Honour of Professor H.T. Basnayake - A Collection of Essays by distinguished archaeologists on numerous archeologically relevant topics in honor of professor H.T. Basnayake.

Nature and the Environment in Early Buddhism - Ven. S.Dhammika, an Australian Buddhist monk famous for many a Buddhist compilation, has written on the attitude which early Buddhism adopts towards the environment. How the environment should be treated by the Buddhist practitioner in the light of the rules imposed by the Buddha, that tend toward safeguarding the environment. Virtually, every aspect of the Buddhist attitude towards the environment is dealt herein.

King Asoka And Buddhism - A selection of   essays by   leading scholars of Indology  assessing the contribution made by emperor Asoka towards promotion of Buddhism.

Indian Buddhism - This book describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available original sources in various languages. It falls into three approximately equal parts. The first is a reconstruction of the original Buddhism presupposed by the traditions of the different schools known to us. It uses primarily the established methods of textual criticism, drawing out of the oldest extant texts of the different schools their common kernel. This kernel of doctrine is presumably common Buddhism of the period before the great schisms of the fourth and third centuries BC. It may be substantially the Buddhism of the Buddha himself, though this cannot be proved: at any rate, it is a Buddhism presupposed by the schools as existing about a hundred years after the Parinirvana of the Buddha, and there is no evidence to suggest that it was formulated by anyone other than the Buddha and his immediate followers.

ANCIENT INDIAN EDUCATION - This work is intended to fill up a gap in the literature on the history of Education, which has not taken adequate account of the unique contributions made by Hindu thought to both educational theory and practice.The work is divided into Two Parts. Part 1 (Chs. 1-12) deals with the concepts and practices of Brahmanical Education on the authority of Veda, Astadhyayi, Arthasastra of Kautilya, Sutra literature and Epics. It discusses the problems of Legal, Industrial and Vocational Education as well as the typical educational institutions and centres. Part II (Chs. 13-24) deals with the Buddhist Education and discusses among other topics the Background, System, Discipline, Centres of Instructions as well as the accounts of education derived from the Jatakas, Milinda Panha as also those rendered by Fa-Hien, Hiuen Tsang, I-Tsing and others.

Fundamentals Of Indian Philosophy - Dr. Puligandla deals with the essentials of Indian philosophy, emphasizing its methods, temper and goals while delving into specificities. Major schools of the philosophic tradition (Carvaka materialism, Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Vedanta among them) are thoroughly analyzed.

JESUS LIVED IN INDIA - His unknown life before and after the crucifixion. Why has Christianity chosen to ignore its connections with the religions of the East, and to dismiss repeatedly the numerous claims that Jesus spent a large part of his life in India? This compelling book presents irrefutable evidence that Jesus did indeed live in India, dying there in old age. The result of many years of investigative research, Jesus Lived in India takes the reader to all the historical sites connected with Jesus in Israel, the Middle East, Afghanistan and India. As well as revealing age-old links between the Israelites and the East, the evidence found by theologian Holger Kersten points to the following startling conclusions: In his youth Jesus followed the ancient Silk Road to India.