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Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia is now 14 years old
Our Encyclopedia recently received a wonderful opportunity for a major renewal on its 14th birthday . After many years of growing our Encyclopedia had become bit slow and sometimes even decided not to answer when people knocked on the door.
A very big thank you and blessings to Dmytro Rudiy (rudiy.nl) for his great work in upgrading the server, website and all of the infrastructure and helping make TBE fast and reliable again for everyone!
We kindly ask our readers to help us cover the cost of this important upgrade and also help with the ongoing costs of keeping the Encyclopedia alive and freely available.
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Every little donation helps and every one is deeply appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏
OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM 🙏🙏🙏
May blessings shower down on all of yous 🙏🙏🙏
Jointly devised by Mr J.R.de Silva and Colonel Olcott, founding President of the Theosophical Society (1875) to mark the revival of Bsm. in
Ceylon which followed the arrival in the Island of Col. Olcott and H.P.Blavatsky in 1880, when they publicly took Pansil as Bsts.
First used 1888 when Wesak (q.v.) celebrated as a public holiday.
The six colours are those alleged in the Scriptures to have radiated from the aura of the Buddha.
Flag consists of the six colours red, blue, yellow, white and rose in vertical stripes with ‘a tint compounded of them all together’, represented by these five colours in horizontal stripes at the end.
Adopted by the World Fellowship of Buddhists, and now used widely in Bst. buildings and at Bst. celebrations.