BLACK TEA

BLACK TEA: HEALING POWERS The tea plantations in the salubrious Central Highlands of Sri Lanka [High Grown Tea] produces the finest Black Tea in the world that still goes by the British Colonial brand name of Ceylon Tea, in spite of the ancient tropical island has now been called Sri Lanka, i.e. the Sanskrit prefix of "Sri" meaning resplendent being added to the most ancient name of the island "Lanka". During your Sri Lanka Holidays visit Ceylon Health Triangle of Sri Lanka to enjoy Ceylon Tea, the finest Black Tea in the world and rejuvenate in the highland sanatariums of Sri Lanka Holidays Nuwara Eliya or  Ella or  Bandarawela...

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BUDDHA'S LIGHT TEA

BUDDHA'S LIGHT TEA On this Vesākha (Pali; Sanskrit: Vaiśākha, Sinhala: Wesak or Vesak) day (another anniversary of birth, enlightenment and the final extinction of Gautama Buddha, it brings me, living in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, a Theravada Buddhist (though not a good one at it), immense joy to present you all guys and dolls with one of those accessible and appealing tales and anecdotes of a book titled “Where is your Buddha Nature?”- stories to instruct and inspire written by renowned Venerable Master Hsing Yun, a whole-hearted Mahayana Buddhist, the founder of Fo Guan Shan monastery, Taiwan published by “Buddha Light and Living Private Limited. Though...

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Priceless ancient Sinhalese sculptures to England

Priceless ancient Sinhalese sculptures to England Following is a gleaning [with the exception of images and labels] off the paragraph titled “Life in Colombo” in Pablo Neruda’ s [1904-1973] “Memoirs” ISBN 0 14 00 4661 5. Pablo Neruda, who went on to win Noble prize for Literature in the year 1971, was Consul of Chile in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] during 1928-1929. The preceding paragraph titled “Ceylon” begins: In 1929, Ceylon, the most beautiful of the world large islands…  A garden doorstep at a home in Devon in the UK has been identified as a rare Sri Lankan artefact expected to fetch more than £30,000 ($47,500) at auction. The auctioneer...

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