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3. General objects of the Corporation

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

The general objects for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be—

(a)

to construct a Statue to commemorate Venerable

Moonamale Dhammarathana Thero, the late Chief

Incumbent of Sri Punyawardanaramaya of

Yatigaloluwa, Pannala, to organize religious and other ceremonies to commemorate his name, and to organize activities to enlighten the general public about the life of the Venerable Moonamale

Dhammarathana Thero;

(b)

with a view to assisting adherents of the Buddhist faith to implement programmes in respect of pre-schools, day care centres, children’s homes, child education and religious education;

(c)

to assist in enhancing the welfare and benefits of

Sri Lankan Buddhist students who are unable to pursue their education due to poverty and other disabilities;

(d)

to conduct necessary classes, lectures, libraries, seminars, conferences, workshops, discussions, dialogues, educational tours, exhibitions, displays, and publish newspapers and magazines with a view to ensuring the development of education of

Buddhist youth;

(e)

to provide relief services such as assistance and housing for the benefit of poor, elderly, destitute with physical and mental disabilities and the helpless, who are adherents of the Buddhist faith;

(f)

to inaugurate language training and vocational training courses in order to deploy Buddhist youth in productive services and to provide facilities to engage in income generating activities by way of further assistance;

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(g)

to implement programmes in relation to child health and adult health, and to provide education on disease control and to conduct clinics, gymnasiums and medical clinics, with a view to ensuring the welfare of adherents of the Buddhist faith;

(h)

to provide self-help and voluntary services for social development activities among the low-income earning groups who are adherents of the Buddhist faith and to inaugurate and maintain pilot projects in this regard;

(i)

to engage in any industry or trade or any export or import business and to aid or assist adherents of the

Buddhist faith to commence and operate agricultural, industrial and commercial ventures and to undertake training programmes and extension services and to organize propaganda activities relating to the transfer of technology;

(j)

to construct and maintain buildings required for the

Sri Punnyawardhanaramaya, Pannala, Yatigaloluwa;

(k)

to promote the religious education of the Buddhist laity;

(l)

to provide the resident bhikkus of the Sri

Punnyawardhanaramaya, Pannala, Yatigaloluwa with educational facilities and to help them in their daily needs;

(m)

to promote cultural activities including ancient forms of art in the village and the area in and around the

Sri Punnyawardhanaramaya, Pannala, Yatigaloluwa;

(n)

to engage in the dissemination of the Dhamma internationally;

(o)

to preserve and disseminate the Buddhist Philosophy and the Buddhist way of life;

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(p)

to establish friendly relations with other Buddhist organizations in Sri Lanka and abroad; and

(q)

to promote Buddhist education by granting scholarships to adherents of the Buddhist faith and to establish and maintain pirivenas for Buddhist education.

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