By Uditha Devapriya The Buddhist revivalists of the late 19th century placed great emphasis on female education. Colonel Olcott spoke of the need for Buddhist girls’ schools, claiming that “the mother” as “the first teacher.” This was echoed by Buddhist men who argued they wanted “companions who shall stand shoulder to shoulder with ourselves.” The […]
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D B Dhanapala, has quit this mortal life, leaving behind a trail of legends that will place him in the Golden Book of Ceylon Journalists, if ever there is one. He was not merely a famous writer. He was a phenomenon who created a new genre in journalism. He took the meanest of Anglo-Saxon phrases […]
by ECB Wijeyasinghe When Julius Caesar said: “let me have men about me that are fat,” he must have been thinking of persons like Lionel Wendt. Wendt was half a dozen extraordinary characters rolled into one and would have delighted the heart of Caesar’s recruiting sergeant. Naturally, Wendt was a heavy man where adiposity was […]
By Uditha Devapriya With input from and photographs by Manusha Lakshan The social and cultural history of Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka has been the object of study for well over a century. Far from receding into a world of their own, these temples occupied a prominent place in the world around them. Buddhist monks […]