A brief history of the teachings in Sri Lanka given by Nina van Gorkom

[renaldo]

Amazing!! I love your descriptions of King Devanampiya Tissa and the arahant Mahinda and how they met.

The story of Anula is also so beautiful.

For those that do not know, these are passages from Robert’s [possibly… and hopefully] upcoming book…

@RobertK

Giridasa was the youngest of the amaccas in the court, and one of the most efficient, the one who had prevented the famine when the canal project collapsed, the one the palace trusted to finish things. He had no particular feeling for the Sangha, or for any religious institution. This was, for the purpose of this errand, a qualification. Asoka had appointed him personally, had read his reports with the satisfaction of an emperor who recognises his own thoroughness in a subordinate.

R