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Elpitiya Viharamabadevi Piriven Viharastha Sanwardhana Sabhawa (Incorporation) Act (No. 18 of 1994) - Sect 3

General objects of the Corporation

3. The general objects for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be"
(a) to maintain the buildings of the Elpitiya, Viharamahadevi Pirivena and to construct and maintain any new buildings as and when necessary ;
(b) to conduct activities for the promotion of religious fervour among buddhists;
(c) to maintain other temples and pirivena, affiliated to the Elpitiya Viharamahadevi Pirivena ;
(d) to establish and maintain, educational institutions including pirivena, to promote spiritual development and for the purpose of propagating the teachings of the Buddha;
(e) to impart knowledge of the Dhamma and to promote the practice of dana, seela and bhavana by buddhists;
(f) to train youth, to obtain employment or to engage in self-employment;
(g) to hold seminars, workshops, conferences and orientation courses for youth relating to mental health, personality development, national integration, and world peace, with a buddhist perspective based on wisdom and compassion;
(h) to set up a library consisting of books, research reports, periodicals, other documents, audio-visual aids, films and cassettes on Buddhism;
(i) to help the destitute ;
(j) to provide moral guidance to children, youth and adults and to provide assistance to students to enable them to meet their needs;
(k) to ordain youth with suitable qualifications and religious devotion and to provide them with the four requisites;
(l) to establish monasteries and forest hermitages and to provide facilities necessary for meditation ;
(m) to provide welfare facilities for the disabled ;
(n) to promote religious, racial and social harmony amongst all the communities ;
(o) to maintain friendly relations with other Buddhist organisations, in and outside Sri Lanka ;
(p) to provide the basic skills that are necessary to enable youth to obtain employment;
(q) to open a hospital for the sick monks and to provide medical facilities to all the monks leading a monastic life;
(r) to function as a documentation Centre for peace oriented study groups, meditation groups, mass media groups and action groups, and to provide for the exchange or information and the sharing of experiences ;
(s) to make comparative study of religious philosophies and of the Buddhist Philosophy of education and other modern philosophies of education, for the purpose of evolving a theory of education relevant to the contemporary society;
(t) to work in collaboration with the World Fellowship of Buddhists and other religious and secular international organizations, whether governmental or non governmental, for the promotion of world peace;
(u) to do all other acts and things as are or may be. necessary for or conducive or incidental to, the attainment of the above objects.


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