How one man sacrificed all to discover all, for the everlasting enlightenment of all. It is a story set in ancient India. The story of a young man, a Prince of the realm who finds the monotony of life meaningless. Who, in the prime of youth, ensconced in the lap of luxury and dwelling in endless pleasures, renounces all to go in search of a mystic treasure.
This is a fascinating narrative of a noble nun who abandoned everything and ordained after showing exceptional personality traits by taming the mind from childhood.
This book Siddhartha Guthama Buddha actually needs no introduction for it merely records a colourful story set against the background of Ancient India and India of Buddha's time. The reader will observe that Prince Siddhartha struggled against mighty odds to realize the ultimate goal of all His endeavours. The family opposition stood in the way of leaving the Palace. Observance of extreme austerities nearly brought His life to an untimely end. Mara, the evil one pursued Him relentlessly from the begining to the very end of his life.
The Sangharaja Sadhucariyava is the biography, rather than a hagiography of Venerable Saranakara , and is the first text of its kind in Sri Lanka. As such, it become the model for all subsequnet biographies of Buddhist monks.
The Buddha, Christ and Gandhi - the great three are universally regarded as harbingers of harmony, compassion and peace, the first of whom is once again being revived in modern times to sort out the present day problems of unprecedented violence and terror - the Holy Dalai Lama being one powerful expression of his message and piety. His was history's first religion of peace which spread all over Asia, including its western regions, without any use of force, and holds its lamp in the East in particular till date. Latest researches in Germany are succeeding in establishing that Jesus Christ was one in the Bodhisattva tradition, who not only stayed and studied in India when he was young, but returned to Kashmir after his crucifixion in which he did not die and escaped with his followers to Srinagar, where he lived till age 90, and where his tomb still quietly stands.