• The word Ānanda means bliss in Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages

People

• Ananda
  Ananda
  Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council...
  
  , a disciple of the Buddha
• Ananda Mahidol
  Ananda Mahidol
  Ananda Mahidol was the eighth monarch of Thailand under the House of Chakri. At the time he was recognized as king by the National Assembly, in March 1935, he was a nine-year-old boy living in Switzerland. He returned to Thailand in December 1945. Six months later, in June 1946, he was found shot...
  
  , eighth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand
• Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Ceylonese metaphysician and art historian
• Ananda Everingham
  Ananda Everingham
  Ananda Everingham is a Laotian-Australian film actor who was born in Thailand. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.-Biography:...
  
  , Lao-Australian model and actor
• Ananda Lewis
  Ananda Lewis
  Ananda Lewis is an American television personality, social activist, and model. She appeared on Maxim and AskMen.com's Hottest Celebrity Lists in 2001...
  
  , American television personality
• Ananda Marchildon
  Ananda Marchildon
  Ananda Marchildon is a Dutch fashion model most notable as the winner of the fourth cycle of Holland's Next Top Model.-Prior to HNTM:Marchildon was born and raised in Canada and moved to the Netherlands when she was 6 years-old. When she was in her early twenties she started to occupy abandoned...
  
  , Canadian-Dutch model and winner of Holland's Next Top Model, Cycle 4
• Ananda Shankar
  Ananda Shankar
  Ananda Shankar was a Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar.-Early life:...
  
  , Bengali musician known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles

Places

• Ananda College
  Ananda College
  Ananda College , Colombo which is considered as the leading National school in Sri Lanka, was established on November 1, 1886, by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott...
  
  , a school in Sri Lanka
• Ananda Temple
  Ananda Temple
  The Ananda Temple , located in Bagan, Myanmar is a Buddhist temple built in 1105 AD during the reign of King Kyanzittha of the Pagan Dynasty. It is one of four surviving temples in Bagan...
  
  , Buddhist temple in Myanmar
• Ananda Church of Self-Realization
• Ananda (Daoukro)
  Ananda (Daoukro)
  -References:*This article was initially created from French Wikipedia...
  
  , a town and commune in Côte d'Ivoire.

Other

• Ananda (album)
  Ananda (album)
  Ananda is the seventh Spanish-language album by the Mexican singer Paulina Rubio and Rubio's eighth studio album as a solo artist and was released on September 18 in Latin America and Spain and September 19 in the United States....
  
  , album by Paulina Rubio
• Ananda Marga
  Ananda Marga
  Ananda Marga, organizationally known as Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha , meaning the samgha for the propagation of the marga of ananda , is a social and spiritual movement founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar .Ánanda Márga followers describe Ánanda Márga as a...
  
  , Indian religious movement
• Ananda Tandava, a sacred dance of Hindu mythology
• Ananda Tandavam (film), a 2008 Tamil film