Article: Sanghamitta Theri's arrival

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December 12, 2008
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Colombo, Dec. 12 -- It was on a day like today two thousand three hundred and sixteen years ago during a period when the soil of this country was rich and fertile after monsoon rains that Arahant Sanghamitta Theri brought to our country the Southern branch of the Jayasirimaha Bodhi in Buddhagaya which provided shelter to Gauthama Bodhisattva while attaining the Enlightenment. Arahant Sanghamitta Theri arrived in Sri Lanka during the month of Unduvap accompanied by eleven other Bhikkhunis who too were Arahants. This made it possible to establish the Meheini Sasna - the Order of Nuns in Lanka.

Unduvap is the seventh month in the ...

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