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Full name: NALIN INDRAJITH HARISCHANDRA (නලින් ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් හරිස්චන්ද්‍ර)

Nationality: Sri Lankan (Sinhalese)

Home town: Kandy, Sri Lanka

Civil status: Married to CHATHURANGA K. ABEYRATNE, Attorney at Law and Notary Public

Hobbies: Reading, Listening to Buddhist sermons, Playing computer games, Watching movies

Curriculum vitae: See the link below, CV_Nalin_Harischandra.pdf

Saying “ආයුබෝවන්” ("Ayubowan") is the Sinhalese way of greeting a person.

It is something like saying “Hello”, but in addition, it has a much wider meaning, i.e., wishing “May You Enjoy a Long Life”

Feeling stressed or bored? Visit my first virtual Digital Art (S-Pen sketches) exhibition.

► Links to Buddhist Websites

"The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened"

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සබ්බ පාපස්ස අකරණං, කුසලස්ස උප සම්පදා,

සචිත්ත පරියෝ දපනං, ඒතං බුද්ධානු සාසනං !!!

(සියලු පාපයන්ගෙන් මිදීමද, නිතර කුසල දහම් වැඩීමද, සිත පිරිසිදු කර ගැනීමද වන මෙය සියලු බුදුවරුන්ගේ අනුශාසනයයි)

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The Law of Dependent Origination (පටිච්ච සමුප්පාද විවරණය):

"When this is, that is; This arising, that arises. When this is not, that is not; This ceasing, that ceases"

"Through ignorance are conditioned volitional actions or mental-formations
Through volitional actions is conditioned consciousness ▼
Through consciousness are conditioned mental (name) and physical (form) phenomena
Through mental and physical phenomena are conditioned the six senses (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind)
Through the six sense is conditioned (sensorial and mental) contact
Through (sensorial and mental) contact is conditioned sensation (feeling).
Through sensation is conditioned desire (craving)
Through desire is conditioned clinging (attachment)
Through clinging is conditioned the process of becoming (Karmic force, volitional formation) ▼
Through the process of becoming is conditioned birth
Through birth are conditioned decay, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair"