Article: Arrival of Arhat Sanghamitta in Sri Lanka

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The Sunday Observer
Article date:
December 7, 2008
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Colombo, Dec. 7 -- Being ordained by Arhat Sanghamitta, Queen Anula became the first to enter the Order of Bikkhunis. In fact it was Queen Anula along with 500 attendant women who expressed her willingness to enter the Order of Nuns. Arhat Mahinda who was of the opinion that it was not proper for him to inaugurate that task, advised the King to send envoys to Emperor Asoka. It was as a result of this that the king's nephew Aritta was sent. Queen Anula and the group who had attained the first of the four stages that leads to Arhathood (After listening to Dhamma discourses of Arhat Mahinda Thera), could enter the ...

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