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His funeral was done according to the last will and the instructions he has given to his pupils in the early 1980s. Maha Nayaka thero requested for no state funeral, no publicity in the media, no banners, no ringing of his temple bell and stated that all he had wanted was for his body be cremated within the temple premises, with no coffin. [ 4 ]
Ananda Wedisinghe (Sinhala: ආනන්ද වෙඩිසිංහ) (1970 – 29 May 2017) was a Sri Lankan motor racing legend and eight time Fox Hill Supercross motorcycle national champion of Sri Lanka. [1] He hailed from Kurunegala and is credited as the pioneer of Sri Lankan motocross racing. [2]
Venerable Rahula Maha Thero extended his teachings to undergraduates in Sinhala and Tamil at the University of Peradeniya and played a role in establishing a Buddhist temple within the university campus. [6] He counted monks such as Maharagama Dhammasiri Thero, Gangodawila Soma Thero and Thirikunamale Ananda Thero among his students. In 1958 ...
The Gazette is published in Sinhalese, Tamil, and English which are the three official languages of Sri Lanka. It publishes promulgated bills, presidential decrees, governmental ordinances, major legal acts as well as vacancies, government exams, requests for tender, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, land restitution notices, liquor licence applications, transport ...
He captained the Sinhala Debating team at Royal College and won the Weerasooriya medal for oratory. [11] He entered the University of Ceylon in 1963 and graduated in mathematics in 1967. De Silva entered University of Sussex in January 1969, where he obtained his doctorate in theoretical physics – cosmology – in 1970.
8 March – The funeral of Ven. Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero proceeded with state of honour on 8 March 2018 in Colombo. [ 11 ] 21 March – Internationally acclaimed documentary Demons in Paradise was released in Sri Lanka after its world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival .
Ranasinghe Rajapakse Samarakoon (17 July 1939 – 1 August 2010; Sinhala: ආර්. ආර්. සමරකෝන්) [Sinhala]), popularly as R.R. Samarakoon, was a Sri Lankan dramatist, playwright, translator and author. [1]
After the surgery he continued to work in dramas for a brief period, when the illness got worse. He continued to take medical treatment from Apeksha Cancer Hospital, Maharagama since mid 2019. On 12 January 2020, he died while receiving treatment at the hospital. Funeral took place on 15 January 2020 and cremated at Boralesgamuwa. [47]