Ven.Katukurunde Nyanananda Thera (spelled Ñāṇananda in Pali, sometimes called Gnanananda in Sinhala) is a Sri Lankan Bhikkhu (Buddhist Monk) and a Buddhist scholar. He is best known for the research monograph Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought and the exploratory study The Magic of the Mind. Ven. Nyanananda is the abbot of Pothgulgala Aranya, …
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Aug 15
Concept and reality – Ven Katukurunde Nanananda Thero
The title ‘Concept and Reality‘ might be a poser to those acquainted with Western philosophy. It must be emphasized that this work does not subscribe to the dichotomy between concept and reality as envisaged by modern philosophers. The Buddha’s Middle Path steers clear of such extreme notions in its recognition of the Relative Validity and the Pragmatic Value of concepts. …
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Jul 23
Manase Mayawa – Ven Katukurunde Nanananda Thero
මනසේ මායාව – කාළකාරාම සූත්රයෙහි අර්ථ විවරණයකි – පූජ්ය කටුකුරුන්දේ ඤාණනන්ද හිමි කාළකාරාම සූත්රය මෙකල නම් ජනප්රිය සූත්රයක් ලෙස හැඳින්විය නොහේ. මෙකල එය ධර්ම දේශනාවකට මාතෘකා කරගනු ලබන්නේ ද කලාතුරකිනි. මෙම සූත්රය කළුවර මුල්ලකට තල්ලු වී ඇත්තේ එහි සංක්ෂිප්ත භාවයත්, නුහුරු නුපුරුදු චතුෂ්කෝටි තර්කන්යායට ඇති සබඳතාවත් නිසා ය. ‘උඩින් පල්ලෙන් කියවා ගෙනයන පාඨකයකුට සූත්රය දිස්වන්නේ …
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Jul 20
The Magic of the Mind – Ven Katukurunde Nanananda Thero
This is an exposition of the Kālakārāma Sutta, a canonical discourse of hallowed tradition that had subsequently fallen into neglect. Ven. Nyanananda gives an annotated translation of the sutta prologued by a humorously conceived parable of a magic show. The main theme of the work is the illusory nature of “Viññaṇa”. The book attempts to …
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