The aspirants were dressed in saffron dyed shirts and sarongs. They lay seated in front of the senior monks of the nikaya, in a long row spanning the width of the tent. Six were from Meethirigala ...

from the Rangiri Dambulu Rajamaha Vihara Sangha Sabhawa (the Rangiri Dambulla Chapter of the Siyam Maha Nikaya). The second petitioner is the Chief Incumbent of the Golden Temple in Dambulla ...

In Buddhist teachings, the Dhamma is often compared to a raft – a powerful analogy used in the Majjhima Nikaya (1.134–35). The text presents the image of a man who comes upon a wide river in flood.