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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 722913" data-attributes="member: 212">The first Buddhist TV channel in Sri Lanka, “The Buddhist” was launched at the the Sri Sambodhi Vihara in Colombo on Friday. The channel went on the air yesterday on Dialog satellite TV to coincide with the Poson poya day and is telecast from a state-of-the-art studio at the Sri Sambodhi Vihara donated by Mr. Muhunthan Canagey former CEO and founder of CBNSat (now Dialog TV) with technical expertise provided by Dialog TV.Speaking on the occasion, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that with the introduction of this channel, Sri Lanka will be able to take the message of Buddhism all over the world as well as inculcate proper values in the younger generation in the country.“One Poson Poya day more than 2,000 years ago, Mahinda Thera brought the message of Buddhism to our land. Today, using modern technology, we can send out this message to the entire world,” he said.This channel is the first religious channel on Dialog TV and the first out of a total of two religious channels planned, the other channel being God TV.</blockquote>

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