Anagarika dharmapala biography in sinhala
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Reading Amunugama’s Study of Anagārika Dharmapala in LION’S ROAR
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I quailed when asked to review Sarath Amunugama’s 700-odd page work on Anagarika Dharmapala’s life and times. I wondered what else was there to write about this colossus who strode across the Buddhist scene in the ‘Ceylon’ of little more than a century ago. So many of his statues adorn our towns and so numerous are the books, pamphlets, learned articles, both in English and Sinhala, published in Sri Lanka, India, Britain and America that there seemed little new to say. But Sarath Amunugama — administrator, politician, art lover and, above all, a meticulous scholar — has overcome my reluctance with his comprehensive, yet eminently readable, study of the Anagarika’s life and times, aptly titled The Lion’s Roar- a singularly apt description of the reverberations that the Anagarika caused in Colonial Ceylon and India.
This is far more than a mere biography of Dharmapala. The life story of this complex personality is studied with deep psychological insight and situated in the context of the grass-root revival of Buddhism, the rise of the Sinhalese mercantile class, and a
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Anagarika Dharmapala
Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and writer (1864-1933)
Anagarika Dharmapāla | |
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Srimath Anagarika Dharmapāla | |
| Born | 17 September 1864 Colombo, Ceylon |
| Died | 29 April 1933 (aged 68) Sarnath, British India |
| Nationality | Sinhalese |
| 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, Representing Buddhism in the Parliament of World Religions (1893) / Buddhist missionary work in three continents |
| Parent(s) | Don Carolis Hewavitharana Mallika Dharmagunawardhana |
Anagārika Dharmapāla (Pali: Anagārika, [ɐˈnɐɡaːɽɪkɐ]; Sinhala: Anagārika, lit., Sinhala: අනගාරික ධර්මපාල; 17 September 1864 – 29 April 1933) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and a writer.
Anagarika Dharmapāla is noted because he was:
Along with Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky, the creators of the Theosophical Society, he was a major reformer and revivalist of Sinhala Buddhism and an important figure in its western transmission. He also inspired a mass movement of South Indian Dalits including Tamils to embrace Bu
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Dharmapala, Anagarika
BORN: September 9, 1864 • Colombo, Ceylon
DIED: April 29, 1933 • Sarnath, India
Ceylonese religious leader; writer
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