Word: mangala
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...Wednesday Anoma was more composed, drawing the largest and loudest cheers from the crowd. "These protesters have come here without us forcing them," opposition parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera told TIME. "The fight for democracy is not dead." The opposition leaders surrounding the general's wife also vowed to continue to protest his arrest. "This is just the beginning. We will not stop until justice is done," said Somawansha Amarasinghe, leader of the People's Liberation Front, a prominent opposition party that supported Fonseka in his campaign...
...several years ago in the sacred cave where the first Buddhist council was held, when he had a vision of a great gathering of monks chanting the scriptures in a similar cave. In 1948 an unknown hermit sent U Nu a walking staff engraved with the words Siri Mangala (glorious prosperity) and instructions to build a pagoda. If the pagoda were finished by 1952, the hermit said, great buildings would grow up around...
After searching for a suitable site, U Nu found one about seven miles from Rangoon, coincidentally named Siri Mangala, and there erected his pagoda. Around it, the site of the sixth Buddhist council is nearly completed, with some two dozen buildings, including a man-made cave (to recall the setting of the first council) large enough for some 15,000 people...
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