Dansala’s -way side street cooked food stalls – By Dr harold Gunatillake Buddha. Feeding poor people is one of the duties of a Buddhist. Generosity is a core practice of Buddhism, and one of the traditional expressions of this is through offering food to the monks and nuns. Buddhism emphasizes the fact that everybody lives on food and that is the main requisite. The Buddhist generosity culminates when one sacrifices his/her own life for the benefit of others. According to Buddhism, before asking the person to follow the teachings of the Buddha, one should check whether the person had enough to eat because the hungry cannot comprehend the essence of the teachings. The Buddha mentioned that hunger is the worst disease. Wesak is the most important Buddhist festival, taking place at the full moon when the sun is in the zodiac sign of Taurus, and commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and ...

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SMILES Travelling the roads from the south of Sri Lanka to Kataragama, you will encounter many things. Fruit sellers, flower sellers, arts and crafts shops, cheeky monkeys, waterways, lotus lakes, food stalls, small towns buzzing and so on. And one thing that strikes you is the contagious smiles of the beautiful women along the road side. Apparently smiling makes you happy, and these beautiful ladies had plenty to go around. If you are travelling through, please do stop and buy something, it will make their day. Support the hard working women in rural Sri Lanka.   ...

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