The Buddhist Temple welcomed a visit from the Liverpool Football Club’s under-18 youth team.

APR 5, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that the youth team under 18 years from Liverpool Football Club visited our Buddhist Temple this afternoon. Upon their arrival, they were warmly greeted with a drumming session by our young musicians and children attending our Sunday Dharma classes.

The event was organized by Priyankara Gunawardena and Ushan Wewalwala, Dinuka Jayaweera
Following an introductory speech by Priyankara Gunawardhana, the youngsters were guided to our shrine room where our resident Buddhist monk, Ven Thissapura Sugatharathana Thero, elucidated the emergence and global spread of Buddhism.
Later, the group reconvened in our new shrine room for further engagement. The proceedings were concluded with refreshments provided to the visitors.
We believe that fostering such connections with the local community through our temple’s cultural and religious events will greatly enrich our presence in the community.

Lottery Fund Community Kitchen

We are very pleased to inform you that Sri Lankan Community Centre has been awarded £10000 for an installation of Community Kitchen by Lottery Community Fund. Our beneficiaries will be able to use our community kitchen in order to learn about South Asian cuisine and culinary skills. At present, we are in the process of completion and installation of a new kitchen. More details later.

Dr Welhengama
Founder & Chairman

Winners of Charity Raffle Draw

Sri Sambuddha Viharaya, Liverpool

Charity Raffle Draw Live: 27 March 2021

In aid of renovation cost of Shrine Room & Dharma shalawa
Winners of Charity Raffle Draw
1st prize: £1000   won by Mr Ushan Wewalwala  in Liverpool
2nd prize:   £500   won by Daughter. Shannon Rathnayake in Manchester

3rd prize:    £250   won by Miss. Asheni Fernando in Liverpool

 

All winners donated their cash prize in aid of the renovation cost of Shrine room & Dharma Shalawa
May The Triple Gem Bless You!
Sri Sambuddha Viharaya, Liverpool

Sri Lankan New Year Celebration

We have experience of organizing Sri Lankan New Year for more than two decades. It was Sri Lankan students at Liverpool Hope University who had started New Year festival from 2000 with the help of Sri Lankan expatriates living in Liverpool.

The Sinhala and Tamil New Year is a very important occasion for both Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus. The uniqueness of this occasion is the celebration of the beginning of the new year as well as the ending of the old year at the auspicious times stated by astrologers. 

New year falls on  13-14 of April each year symbolizing the ending of the old year, and the beginning of the new year

. The biggest celebration in Sri Lanka that features a load of rituals and customs is one of the must things to experience in your life. Also known as the sun festival, the Sinhala and Tamil new year is a ritual performed to honour the God of Sun for hundreds and hundreds of years now.

Comes with such a long history the festival is the best season to experience Sri Lanka’s core traditions and rituals and to enjoy fun activities and traditional games.

New year festival games

Once the rituals are over, celebrations spill out into the street. These traditional games are the highlight of the day for many. During these celebrations, some of the new year games played in new year events are;

*placing the eye on the elephant

*eating buns

*pillow- fight

*tug-o-war

*breaking the pots

*climbing the greasy pole