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Sri Lanka Holidays History of the Agrarian civilization of the Aryan Sinhalese tempered with the gentle sway of Buddhism in the resplendent island of Sri Lanka. **www.bunpeiris.com *www.mysrilankaholidays.com**www.my-srilankaholidays.com
SRI LANKA Holidays
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[Sri Lanka Holidays ] 25
Tamil Thai Pongal Day (BPM),2008/1/15
Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/1/22
National Day (BPM),2008/2/4
Navam Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/2/20
Mahasivarathri Day (BP),2008/3/6
Milad-Un-Nabi (Holy Prophet’s Birthday) (BPM),2008/3/20
Medin Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/3/21
Good Friday (BP),2008/3/21
Day Prior to Sinhala & Tamil New Year Day (BPM),2008/4/12
Sinhala & Tamil New Year Day (BPM),2008/4/13
Bak Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/4/19
May Day (BPM),2008/5/1
Vesak Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/5/19
Day following Vesak Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/5/20
Poson Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/6/18
Esala Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/7/17
Nikini Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/8/16
Binara Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/9/14
Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramazan Festival Day) (BP),2008/10/01
Vap Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/10/14
Deepavali Festival Day (BP),2008/11/27
Il Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/11/12
Id-Ul-Alha (Hadji Festival Day) (BP),2008/12/9
Unduvap Full Moon Poya Day (BPM),2008/12/12
Christmas Day (BPM),2008/12/25
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Instructions
A) Backup the existing SRI LANKA Holidays file
1. Exit Outlook if it is running.
2. Locate Outlook.hol file and create a backup of it.
Outlook 2007: drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\1033\Outlook.hol
Outlook 2003: drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\1033\Outlook.hol
B) Update the Outlook Holiday file
1. Exit Outlook if it is running.
2. Open the Outlook.hol file in a text editor, such as Notepad.
3. If you're doing this for the first time, copy and paste the above section between "Start Copy" and "End Copy" to the end of the Outlook.hol file. Update your existing list with the above if you've already have a section for the Sri Lanka Holidays.
4. Save and close Outlook.hol.
C) To update the Outlook calendar
1. Start Outlook.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
3. On the Preferences tab, under Calendar, click Calendar Options.
4. In the Calendar Options dialog box, under Calendar options, click Add SRI LANKA Holidays.
5. Select the check box "Sri Lanka HOLIDAYS " and click OK.
Note: If a set of SRI LANKA holidays or events observed has already been selected in the Add SRI LANKA Holidays to Calendar dialog box and you try to add the same again, you see the message, " SRILANKA Holidays for country are already installed. Do you want to install them again?" Click No. If you click Yes, the SRI LANKA holidays and events are installed a second time, and you will see duplicate holiday and event entries in your calendar.
An open word to the Inbound Tour Operators to Sri Lanka by bunpeiris.
Gentlemen,
We needn't hesitate in facing up to terrorism, speaking against terrorism in the same breadth as Tourism. Such is the reality, ours is the least promoted world class destination: Total Holiday Experience (THE). Over & above the failure in publicity of the successive governments to promote the inbound tourism to the island, our island has been suffering, for three decades under a killer transient phenomenon caused by a very sick mind: terrorism.
Once again it was mainly due to the pathetic failure of successive governments to counter terrorist propaganda. Now, led by the political will & military discipline, we have government institutions which have taken up the task of countering the propaganda of the terrorists.
Anyway, with terrorist cargo ships already in the bottom of the sea, deep underground fortresses getting demolished with weapons we never had till a couple of years ago, with the wounded
We have survived for 2550 years of foreign invasions from Southern India,
Take heart & redouble your efforts to promote the least promoted tourist destination of the world that could provide one & all THE (TOTAL HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE) in "THE LAND OF DELIGHTS".
Good times soon
May all beings get cured of their maladies; may all small & gods protect our island & our Defence Forces.
An extract from The Revolt in the Temple by D. C. Vijayavardhana Sinha Publications,
According to the Mahavamsa & the ancient Pali Commentaries, the Mahaparinibbana (final extinction) of the Buddha, & the landing in Lanka of Vijaya, the founder of the Sinhalese race, too place on one & the same day.
The Mahavamsa relates that the Buddha, on the day of Mahaparibbana, addressed Sakra, the king of the gods, thus; ‘My doctrine, O Sakra, will eventually be established in the Island of Lanka;& on this day, Vijaya, eldest son of Sinha Bahu, King of Sinhapura in the Lata country, lands there with seven hundred followers, & will assume the sovereignty there. Do thou, therefore, guard well the King & his train & the
On receiving the Buddha’s command, Sakra summoned Vishnu; “Do thou, O lotus-hued One, protect with zeal Prince Vijaya & his followere, & the Doctrine that is to endure in Lanka for full five thousand years.’
Thus the Mahavamsa synchronizes the Mahaparinibbana (final extinction) of the Buddha founding of the Sinhalese race; & therefore, in 1956 will occur the unique three-fold event-the completion of 2500 years of Buddhism, of the life of Sinhalese race, & of
1) 0543 BC Arrival of Prince Vijaya & his 700 men from
(2) 0543 BC Final extinction of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, (the most Profound religion ever) in
(3) 0543 BC-1815AD Succession of 176 rulers of
(4) 497AD-525AD Buddhist monk Mahanama Thera begins written record of history of Lanka: Mahawamsa (Great Chronicle). Following Bhikku Mahanama, a succession of Buddhist monks continue the narration of Mahavamsa & Chulavamsa to 1795, begining of the British colonail period
(5) 1815 Capitulation of
(6) 1815- 1948 Colonial period During the Ceylonese colonial era, Pali language of the original Suttas (sutras) was so obscure that few Dutch or British bothered to learn it. As a result Mahawamsa (Great Chronicle) written in Pali language was largely the preserve of of Buddhist monks & elite & erudite Sinhalese.
(7)1826 Interest in Mahawamsa by the philologists following discovery of
(8) Reprinted by L. C. Wijesinha (Sinhalese)
(9)1908 A Critical edition in Pali was made by Prof. Wilhelm Geiger Ph. D. published by the Pali Text Society
(10)1910 Translation into German by Prof. Geiger of his own revised critical edition published by the Pali Text Society in 1908
(11)1912 Translation of German edition into English by Dr. Mabel Haynes Bode, Ph. D
(12)1948 End of British Colonial rule:
(13) 1989 Translation by Ananda Guruge (Sinhalese)
(14) 2003 Reprint by offset in Great Britain ISBN: 955-8540-83-8
(15) 2005 Second Revised Edition od Dr. Ananda W. P. Guruge's translation with 403 page prolegomena & introduction
1 The Living Historical Tradition. The continually growing mass of myth, legends, ballads, eulogies, heroic poems, biographies, ecclesiastical histories, tales of sacred objects & places, personal records of good deeds, quasi-historical records
2 Sinhala Atthakatha – Historical records of Sangha (Buddhist monks) activities from the earliest times in old Sinhala & Pali
3 The Dipavamsa, the earliest extant chronicle of
4 Samantha Pasadika
5 Mahavamsa ( great Chronicle)
6.Vamsatthappakasini ( Mahavamsa Tika) (Commentary)
7 Extended (“Cambodian”) Mahavamsa
Above is an adaptation from “The Evolution of the Chronicle from Early Beginnings to the Extended Mahavamsa,” Ananda Guruge
The later chronicles of the island, written from time to time, are the Attana-galu Vihara Vamsa, the Dhatuvamsa, the Elu-Attanagaluvamsa, the Elu-Bodhivamsa, the Maha Bodhivamsa, the Thupavamsa, the Daladavamsa, the Viharavamsa etc.
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2. Reign of King Kuvera with great splendor & immense grandeur in Lanka. It is also believed flamboyant King Kasyapa aspired to be the god king with Sigiriya Rock Citadel as the very personification of his divinity, to rule his kingdom up high, like the king Kuvera
3. Reign of King Ravana (a grandson of Malyavath) of epic Ramayana most possibly 1810 BC according to Sir William Jones (1746-1794)
4. No legend for another 1200 years
5. 6thCentury.BC Yakka tribe kings Chulodara & Mahodara & three visits of Gauthama Buddha to the resplendent
In 1225, the Tamils under Magha of Kalinga, more merciless than any previous invader, landed in Lanka “This Magha, who was like unto fierce drought, commanded his army of strong men to ransack the
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