{"id":11675,"date":"2026-05-27T04:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:19:36","slug":"ibmbb-undergraduate-open-day-2026-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/?p=11675","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Vidya Jyothi Professor E H Karunanayake on his 1st Deaths Anniversary\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11675\" class=\"elementor elementor-11675\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2c0cb7d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"2c0cb7d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3e42cbf\" data-id=\"3e42cbf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76820ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"76820ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\">Remembering Vidya Jyothi Professor E H Karunanayake on his 1st Deaths Anniversary<\/h5>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e6ac9f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"e6ac9f1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a5fcb4\" data-id=\"4a5fcb4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-261389b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"261389b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Colleagues and former students of late Prof Eric Karunanayake, Founder and first Director of IBMBB held a bana programme (live suthra deshana) at the Buddhist Channel to invoke merit on Prof Karunanayake on the occasion of his first death anniversary. Dharma deshana was delivered by venerable Mirahawatte Pannasiri Thero, chief prelate of the Gnanarama Meditation Centre, Thalawathugoda and Lankarama Viharaya in Dubai and Sanganayake for United Arab Emirates.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uz6tP83JrVU\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><p>A thambili gilanpasa pooja was also held at the International Institute of Theravada, Karuvalagaswewa, Anamaduwa.<br \/><br \/>May all the merit we accrued aid late Prof Karunanayaka to have a happy and short sansaric journey and reach ultimate liberation of Nirvana<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92ca3cc elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"92ca3cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/our-deepest-sympathies-3.png\" alt=\"our deepest sympathies (3)\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"2 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-27-at-08.36.51-2-768x1732.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2026-05-27 at 08.36.51 (2)\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"3 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-27-at-08.36.51-1-768x340.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2026-05-27 at 08.36.51 (1)\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"4 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-27-at-08.36.51-768x340.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2026-05-27 at 08.36.51\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"5 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-27-at-08.36.50-1-768x1732.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2026-05-27 at 08.36.50 (1)\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"6 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-27-at-08.36.50-768x1732.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2026-05-27 at 08.36.50\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-prev\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering Vidya Jyothi Professor E H Karunanayake on his 1st Deaths Anniversary Colleagues and former students of late Prof Eric Karunanayake, Founder and first Director of IBMBB held a bana programme (live suthra deshana) at the Buddhist Channel to invoke merit on Prof Karunanayake on the occasion of his first death anniversary. Dharma deshana was delivered by venerable Mirahawatte Pannasiri Thero, chief prelate of the Gnanarama Meditation Centre, Thalawathugoda and Lankarama Viharaya in Dubai and Sanganayake for United Arab Emirates. Youtube A thambili gilanpasa pooja was also held at the International Institute of Theravada, Karuvalagaswewa, Anamaduwa. May all the merit we accrued aid late Prof Karunanayaka to have a happy and short sansaric journey and reach ultimate liberation of Nirvana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":11682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-news-home"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-03 11:51:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11692,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions\/11692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}