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   Saṅghamittā ( Saṅghamitrā in Sanskrit, nun's name Ayapali; [1] 282 BC – 203 BC [1]) was an Indian Buddhist nun and believed to be the eldest daughter (Sri Lankan Tradition) of Emperor Ashoka (304 BC – 232 BC) and his first wife and Empress, Devi (302 BCE – 242 BCE). Together with her brother Mahinda, she entered an order of Buddhist ...

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   Sanghamitta was a daughter of Emperor Ashoka who brought a branch of the Buddha's Bodhi tree to Sri Lanka in the third century B.C.E. Learn about her story, the miraculous voyage, and the significance of the sacred bo tree in Sri Lankan Buddhism.

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   Mar 16, 2011 · Sanghamitta (approx. 308 BCE - 229 BCE) was the daughter of King Ashoka. She was a nun who spread the Order to Sri Lanka and brought with her a sapling from the original Bodhi Tree at Bodh Gaya. This marked one of the key moments in the spread of Buddhism outside of India.

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   Saṅghamittā (S. Saṃghamitrā; C. sengqiemiduo) (282 – 203 BCE) was a daughter of Emperor Ashoka and the sister of Mahinda. According to traditional accounts, Saṅghamittā was ordained as a nun ( bhiksuni) at the age of eighteen years.

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   🌑 New Moon Amavasi Uposatha (Dec 12th-13th) for one week Sanghamitta and Bodhi Tree's Journey by Sea from India to Sri Lanka.

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   Jul 16, 2013 · The Mahāvaṁsa is a well-known Chronicle from Sri Lanka that has seen a number of translations into English, most famously by Wilhelm Geiger. It tells the story of the Kings of Sri Lanka, and the establishment of Buddhism in that country, and the support and challenges the religion has received down the ages.

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   Where did Sanghamitta come from?

   • Sanghamitta, a nun of barely eighteen, and others from her order set sail from India in the third century B.C.E., carrying to the sultry green island of Sri Lanka a branch of the sacred Maha Bodhi tree, under which Siddhartha, the Buddha Shakyamuni, had attained enlightenment.

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   Why was Sanghamitta important?

   • Few disciples were as important as Sanghamitta in the early history of Buddhism. As a young nun, Sanghamitta fearlessly set sail from India to Sri Lanka, where she helped establish Theravada Buddhism. Motionless in the midday heat, the old nuns sat watching a stranger cross the dusty courtyard toward a small temple.

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   What happened to Sanghamitta?

   • Though Sanghamitta lived the rest of her life in Sri Lanka, engaged in perhaps as many as sixty years of religious work, her order of nuns dwindled and vanished within a few centuries of her death, near the end of the first millennium B.C.E., a sad reminder of the downgrading or disappearance of Theravada Buddhist orders for women everywhere.

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   How old was Sanghamitta when she went to Sri Lanka?

   • Sanghamitta was 32 years of age when she took this journey. Her son Samanera was already in Sri Lanka as he had joined his uncle Mahindra's mission to spread Buddhism. Sangamitta performed the formal Pabbajja ordination of Princess Anula.

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9. ancient-buddhist-texts.net › English-Texts › ArahatArahat Sanghamitta's Story - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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   It tells the story of the Kings of Sri Lanka, and the establishment of Buddhism in that country, and the support and challenges the religion has received down the ages. What is little known to the general public is that there is a secondary version of the text, which its editor chose to call the Extended Mahāvaṁsa.2.