Lecture on ‘Sinhala Theravada Buddhism in China’
View(s):The Royal Asiatic Society lecture for July will be given by Dr. Hema Goonatilake on ‘Sinhala Theravada Buddhism in China’ tomorrow, July 30 at 5 p.m. at the Mahaweli Centre, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7. Buddhism now known as Dai Buddhism arrived in around the 9th century in Xishuangbanna in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, bordering Myanmar and Laos. The Dai people are one of several ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Province and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Province in southern Yunnan in China.
Dr. Hema Goonatilake is the immediate past president of the Royal Asiatic Society.