RASSL lecture on how a Buddhist monk influenced an Israeli PM
View(s):The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka’s next public lecture will be on ‘Monk and the Prime Minister: How Ven Nyanaponika influenced Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel’. The lecture on Monday, June 26 at 5 p.m. at the Council Room of Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7, will be delivered by Dr Punsara Amarasinghe, post doctoral researcher, Sant Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, and Hony. Joint Secretary, RASSL
It will be delivered in English and is open to all. It will also be on
Zoom : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81471199391?pwd=c3B UZUgzcEZZVWtuc2ozVXR4SDE5QT09
Meeting ID : 814 7119 9391
Passcode : 090441
YouTube : https://youtube.com/live/v2lRU3–sT8?feature=share
– www.royalasiaticsociety.lk/monthly-lectures/
Between the years 1956 and 1962, the Buddhist monk Ven. Nyanaponika Thera and then Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met and exchanged numerous letters. Their correspondence, which is now in the custody of Hebrew University Jerusalem reveals the nature of their unique intellectual relationship. It shows that the Israeli Prime Minister was interested in Buddhist matters above and beyond what is usually acknowledged in Israel’s historiography.
The letters unveil the initial efforts made by the German Jewish monk residing in Ceylon to propagate Buddhism to Israel and also trace the importance of Sri Lanka as the core of Theravada Buddhism.
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