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  • To a Western audience many of the paintings, especially the early ones that carry religious motives such as the 12th-century painting "The Wish-Giving Green Tara" by an unknown Mahavihara master showing a dancing goddess, look schematic as they are laden with symbols and cryptic references.

    Masterful Works Open the Gateway to India Goran Mijuk 2011

  • Devanampiya Tissa, who founded the Mahavihara or Great Monastery at his capital Anuradhapura.

    d. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 2001

  • His writings mentioned a Mahavihara (monastery) close to the Karna Suvarna Nagari, but there is no mention of other monasteries or stupas.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2010

  • His writings mentioned a Mahavihara (monastery) close to the Karna Suvarna Nagari, but there is no mention of other monasteries or stupas.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2010

  • Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Bodh Gaya today to give religious discourses and take part in the seven-day Gelug Monlam at the Mahabodhi Mahavihara ...

    Tibet.net 2010

  • He's spent more than a year in jail, and if he gets released anytime soon I hope part of his probationary conditions force him to put a box over his head whenever he's within visual range of a bike. arson is suspected at the Mahavihara Buddhist Meditation Centre temple in Toronto.

    blogTO 2009

  • The Mahavihara in Brickfields is an example - it was the scene of bitter struggle for control by mca and gerakan. gerakan left after they obtain a piece of land in Subang Jaya to build a temple.

    *SUSAN LOONE's Blog* 2009

  • Many temples were destroyed including Mahavihara, the main Theravada temple.

    The Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia 2008

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