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Sri Lankan Buddhist monks (68 P) T. Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhists (55 P) Pages in category "Sri Lankan Buddhists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out ...
Pages in category "Sri Lankan Buddhist monks" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhists" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Theravada Buddhism is the largest and official religion of Sri Lanka, practiced by 70.2% of the population as of 2012. [2] Practitioners of Sri Lankan Buddhism can be found amongst the majority Sinhalese population as well as among the minority ethnic groups.
Other names: Don David Hevavitharane Ven. Sri Devamitta Dharmapala (after ordination) Education: Christian College, Kotte, St Benedict's College, Kotahena, S. Thomas' College, Mutwal, Colombo Academy: Known for: Sri Lankan independence movement, revival of Buddhism,
Ven. Ñāṇananda was born in 1940 to a Sinhala Buddhist family in Galle District in Sri Lanka.He received his school education from Mahinda College, Galle. [1] In 1962 he graduated from the University of Peradeniya specializing in Pali Studies, and served as an assistant lecturer in Pali at the same university for a brief period of time.
Anagarika Dhammapala, Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera, Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera and Henry Steel Olcott (one of the first American western converts to Buddhism) were some of the main figures of the Sri Lankan Buddhist revival. [44] Two new monastic orders were formed in the 19th century, the Amarapura Nikāya and the Rāmañña Nikāya. [45]
Sri Lankan Buddhists (5 C, 547 P) Sri Lankan scholars of Buddhism (12 P) T. Buddhism amongst Tamils (1 C, 18 P) Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka (8 C, 1 P)