Sunday Times 2

The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya (Mitirigala Forest Hermitage) will be commemorated at a public meeting to be held at the Nissarana Vanaya Aranya at 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 3 (Unduvap Poya Day).

A postage stamp together with a special commemorative cover to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya (1967 – 2017) will be issued by the Philatelic Bureau of the Department of Posts on this occasion.

Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya was founded in 1967 by Asoka Weeraratna, who also founded the German Dharmaduta Society in 1952 and the Berlin Buddhist Vihara in 1972. He subsequently entered the order of the Sangha in 1972 under the name Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanissanti Thera.

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