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SUMMARY:How to cultivate The magnificence of the  Mind/body potential - Ve
 nerable Dr. Gangodawila Chandima\, Ottawa Theravada Buddhist Vihara in Ott
 awa\, Canada. 
DTSTART:20181215T170000Z
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CONTACT:Himantha Cooray
DESCRIPTION:Venerable Dr. Gangodawila Chandima\, a Canadian Buddhist monk\
 , is Resident Buddhist Monk at Ottawa Theravada Buddhist Vihara in Ottawa\
 , Canada. \n\nIn 2015 he earned a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the University of
  Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka with his work\, “An Annotated Translat
 ion Into English Of Ratnamālāvadāna With A Critical Introduction”. Ma
 joring in Sanskrit and minoring in both Pali and Buddhist Philosophy\, he 
 earned a BA with First-Class Honours in 2008\, receiving the Sri Soratha G
 old Medal as the student with the highest marks in the Faculty of Humaniti
 es and Social Sciences at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.\n\nRecipi
 ent of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts Research Grant (
 2016-2017)\, Ven. Dr. Chandima has lectured in Sanskrit at the University 
 of Victoria\, British Columbia (BC)\; the University of Sri Jayewardenepur
 a\; and the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka. He served as Reside
 nt Buddhist monk at the Alberta Buddhist Vihara Association (2016-2017) an
 d at the Buddhist Vihara Society in BC (2011-2016)\, where he was also Pri
 ncipal of the Dhamma School. From 2012 to 2016\, he served as Theravada Bu
 ddhist Chaplain at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver\, and in
  2016 was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Soci
 ety of the University of Victoria\, BC. He also collaborated at the Nagaok
 a National College of Technology in Nagaoka\, Japan.\n\nAt his YouTube cha
 nnel\, “Authentic Buddhism”\, he presents a fluent and articulate rend
 ition of the original Pali Suttas\, carefully striving to avoid anything t
 hat would blur or distort the words of the Buddha.
LOCATION:Garden Room\, St Edmund's College\, Mount Pleasant\, CB3 0BN
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