About Ravi Prasad Herat
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Ravi Prasad Herath is a journalist and an author in his professional life. The author was born and raised in the rural setting of Madampe, in the Puttlam district of the North Western Province in Sri Lanka. It has always been Ravi’s passion to write; he has been doing it since he was a teenager and has always enjoyed it.
After developing a flair for writing, he was able to impress his friends and parents with his ability to write on a variety of topics. This inspired him to pursue a career in writing. One could confidently say that he had an inborn talent for writing, which he developed during the latter part of his school days. His creative way of expressing himself through writing has earned him recognition and accolades, both locally and internationally. His writing focuses on rural life, social issues, and local culture, and he is considered an authority on the subject of conflict resolution. His writings on the conflict areas of Sri Lanka’s North and East were enough fodder for book publishers to think twice about his adroit skills as an author.
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Received the Presidential Award for Investigative Journalism.
උතුරේ චණ්ඩි- කලක් තිස්සේ ඉරිදා ශ්‍රී ලංකා දීප පත්‍රයේ පලවු විචිත්‍රංග ලිපි පෙළකි. දශක ගනනාවක් ලක් වැසි ජනතාව සන්ත්‍රාසයෙන් දමනය කළ කුරිරු භීම සමය සිහිගන්වන්නේකි. ද්‍රවිඩ විමුක්ති කාමි අරගල ට හේතු සොයා ගැනිමට අමතරව උතුරේ දේශපාලකයින්ගේ සෑබෑ ගණකාධිකරණය මැනවින් උපුටා දක්වයි. සියලු පැරහා මිලිටරි සංවිධාන වල අභ්‍යන්තර යාන්ත්‍රණයන් පැහැදිලි කරයි. සියලු ප්‍රචණ්ඩ සන්නද්ධ අරගල කරුවන්ගේ යාන්ත්‍රණයන් විනිවිද ජායාරූප සහිතව දක්වමින් මෙය සකස් වි ඇත. වර්ෂ 2018 දි ප්‍රථම වරට පැවති ජනාධිපති මාද්‍ය සම්මාන උළලේදි මීට ගවේෂණ පුවත්පත් කලාවට නියමිත සම්මානය හිමිවිය. මේ වන විට එය දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් ද ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙනද කියවිය හැකිය. ප්‍රථම ප්‍රකාශණය විජිත යාපා ප්‍රකාශකයෙන්‍ගෙනි .
20th Century Cinematic Journey
The art of entertainment has an invincible journey within the active global political map of this universe. It flows in a high speed inside the art of cinematography industry. As it become an enchanting splendor rich business which has embraced the world , the whole world moves in a single stream. All the people of this world filters happiness amusement and knowledge through it. Those dazzling creations which were shared by the Sri Lankans for several decades still live coming from generation to generation. When your eye catches this collection that past become enliven again. It led the world in correct path gave knowledge. In a convincing manner crossed over to the future through higher level of intelligence. We should protect these qualities for the future too.
Practical Buddhism
ලංකාවට පැමිණෙන විදේශිකයින්ගේ අවබෝධය වැඩි දියුණු කිරිම සදහා බොහො විට නිදහස් සම්ප්‍රදායිකි. ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් ලියවුනු සංෂිප්ත ග්‍රන්ථයකි. වර්ෂ 2018 දී ජාත්‍යන්තර අවස්ථාවන් උපයොගි කරගෙන බොහො ආසියානු හා යුරොපිය ජාතිකයින් ලංකාවට පැමිණි අවශ්ථාවන් අරභයා සකස් විය. නාසා විදයා ආයතනය විසින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කල විශ්වයේ විදයා ආයතනය විසින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කල විශ්වයේ විදයාත්මක සිතියමකින් හා ගෞතම බුද්ධ චරිතයෙ විවිධ අවශ්ථාවන් නිරුපණය කරන භාරතීය චිත්‍ර ශිල්පින්ගෙ රමණිය විචිත්‍ර චිත්‍රාවලියකින් සොතාපන්න බලය පිළිබද මහායාන දර්ශණයට ද හික්මීමකින් සකස් වි ඇත. මෙම කෘතියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය සුපර් සන් දහම නමින් 2023 දී ප්‍රකාශයට පත් විය.
Suriya Kanda Vinsathiya
‘Suriya Kanda Vinsathiya’
The continuous violence, present in almost every decade since the 1950s or no sooner Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain, has left a dark stain in the history of the country, that is popularly known as a “Just Society” or the “Pearl or tear drop of the Indian Ocean”.
Ethnic violence against the minority Tamils, violence against the Sinhalese by Tamil terror groups and two major youth uprisings in the South have unleashed enormous violence and caused loss of lives, unbearable pains for parents and denied wives their husbands and children their parents in almost every part of the island.
The worst horrors had to be borne by families whose members have gone missing. Most of these lost ones have been buried in the soil of this nation. Tragedy in the late 1980s that took place in ‘Sooriya Kanda’ in Embilipitiya is considered as one of the most terrible acts violence against humanity. Though more than 35 years have passed, the name Embilipitiya resonates with the ‘Sooriya Kanda’ tragedy.
At a time when Chemmani mass grave is being unearthed in the North, how many more thousands are lying dead and buried in Sri Lankan soil stretching from the North to the South passing a trail from Matale to Sooriyakanda? Ravi Prasad Herath has tried to do justice to those thousands who were buried and whose voices were silenced.
He is on a mission to bring out the truth that many political powers that were active then do not wish to hear.
Susitha R. Fernando
Associate Editor/Features Editor
Daily Mirror
Essence of Human Mankind
Essence of Human Mankind is not concerned with the critical problem of the Tripitaka text. It will not try to distinguish between the Buddha and later Buddhism. Many scholars have recently tried to do this, but with doubtful success. The scientific and critical attitude of contemporary scholarship to the text of the Pali canon is a natural and inevitable development. Earlier students, with the enthusiasm of first discoverers, tend to accept the authenticity of the text too easily.
This stage in the history of the Pali text has now come to an end. Several factors have influenced this process. The Pali Text Society has made the literature of the Pali canon available, both in the original language and in translations. A number of other societies have sponsored similar undertakings. In addition, new Buddhist manuscripts are constantly being discovered in India, Tibet, and China. The most important factor, however, is that scholars are realizing the need to relate early Buddhism to the background of the contemporary scene in India.
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Ravi used Japanese floral arrangement techniques to propagate Mahayana Buddhism, which is yet another philosophical segment of Buddhism. He also trekked on uncharted terrain, learning the principles of Moribana and Nageria.
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A national award SBYO was conferred upon Ravi for his services in propagating Mahayana Buddhism by the Buddhayana Organization of Singapore.