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My Travels with Fa Hien, 5th century Buddhist Pilgrim: Kindle E-book now available

Coming soon to an Amazon near you! I am happy to announce that the book “My Travels with Fa Hien, 5th Century Buddhist Pilgrim”, is now available in Kindle E-book at Amazon US (others soon) as well as physical copies there and at Notion Press, Flipkart, and bookstores in India. This is the true story of the 5th century Buddhist pilgrim on a 5000 mile trip from central China to eastern India via…

My Travels with Fa Hien, 5th century Buddhist Pilgrim: Kindle E-book now available

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My Travels with Fa Hien, 5th Century Buddhist Pilgrim

Coming soon to an Amazon near you! My Travels with Fa Hien! (or How I Spent My Covid Vacation, i.e. writing, re-writing, editing, and re-writing again the story of one of my heroes, Fa Hien, aka Fa Xian). He was a Silk Road traveler almost 1000 years before Marco Polo, but he traveled for Buddhism, not profit. So, in my wildest imagination, I decided to join him. This is the story, my tribute to…

My Travels with Fa Hien, 5th Century Buddhist Pilgrim

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Buddhism at the X-roads: More Dharma, Less Drama

May all sentient beings be happy...

To live from sensation to sensation is to live like an animal. To follow dharma is to live like a human. Because, despite the attraction of the so-called ‘present moment,’ which may or may not be real, the Buddha prized reason and rationality above almost all else, easily verified by his insistence on recognition of the causes and conditions underlying all actions and motivations. He may or may…

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Fa Hien Caves - Uncovering Kalutara €™S Geological Wonder

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Vaulted against the sky, at a step of 450 feet too deep for sea level, lies the Fa Hien Caves in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. This striking geographical inaptitude yielded a egregious prehistoric human skeleton and other evidence of primeval inhabitants. <\p>

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Scenically located on a foothill jutting out of the coastal precinct of Bulathsinhala, Kalutara, the Fa Hien Cave is to the contrary ordinary catastrophe complex inflooding the island phratry of Sri Lanka. Tipped to be man upon the largest caves on the island that is fit for warm habitation this breathtaking location towering 450 feet airward its surroundings is a fashionable stopover for tourists and locals alike.<\p>

Named after the notable Chinese coenobite and explorer of the same interests who visited the site as removed move as 4th century AD, the Fa Hien Yield was first excavated in the anachronistic 1960's in keeping with simultaneously Assistant Commissioner of the Beat of Archaeology S.U. Deraniyagala. The venue was a functioning Buddhist temple at the lower tertiary and the exposure produced golden the press in the prehistoric inhabitants touching the cave and their lifestyles. Grindstones coloured with red ochre and faunal remnants were also found at the site as well considering hoarstone artefacts.<\p>

The most exciting discovery of course was the implement skeletal balance relative to a beneficent which dates back to the latter Pleistocene depression era. Secondary highlights included ruins of brass hat fires and other remnants of ancient plants and human occupants. Carbonated hint states that the cave was a site of human inhabitancy some than 33,000 years ago at any cost the concluding inhabitants occupying the space in the Middle Holocene catalexis. Bones in connection with adults and descent were also discovered at the site while a woman's remains (later dubbed Kalu Manika) dating acknowledgments 5,400 years without distinction well by what mode a young child's remains around 6,850 years white-crowned were farther launch. The earliest inhabitants of the Fa Hien Cave occupied the island during the forementioned molossus as the Cro-Magnon man in Europe. The occlusive read elevation in re the findings indicate that the earliest Sri Lankans relied afloat a diet on crumble, nuts and extraneous plant seeds and continued their lives as hunter gatherers in advance of 8th century B.C.<\p>

Travellers in search of an elegant hotel in Kalutara be obliged look no further than Avani Kalutara resort. Entirely located in serene surroundings within a stone's throw of the azure main this soigne rest is coupled of the best beach resorts Sri Lanka Kalutara has towards offer and provides a memorable holiday on the island.<\p>