Walpola Rahula Institute Sri Lanka expands online programs on social healing By a well-wisher of the Walpola Rahula Institute The multi religious and multi ethnic approach taken by the Walpola Rahula Institute (WRI) to advance social healing amongst all people in Sri Lanka and elsewhere is set to take a major step forward with the increasing focus on online programs. The spread of COVID in Sri Lanka provided an opportunity for Venerable Galkande Dhammananda, the head of the Walpola Rahula Institute and the Chairperson of the Walpola Rahula Trust, to commence online programs to spread the message of social healing via a YouTube channel, Rahula Dhammavahini. Monthly Metta sessions, discussion sessions and discourses conducted by Ven Dhammananda and other learned, erudite Monks, and opportunities provided via this same medium for individuals and families to remember their loved ones on birthdays, death anniversaries and other commemorative occasions, have been ongoing and ...

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