Posted on January 22nd, 2021
Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A. (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph. D. (Agriculture)
Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A. (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph.
D. (Agriculture)
Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Visiting Lecture Univ. Peradeniya, Retired
Permanent Secretary to Prime
Minister Sirimavo Bandaarnaayaka (SLAS) 21.1.2021.
Ven. Dr. Rambukwelle DevanadaThera Chief incumbent of Sri Sambhodi Vihaara,
Berlin, was awarded
a Ph.D. (Dr. Phil) magna cum laude” with First Class Honours by the
prestigious Berlin Humboldt
National University of Germany for a Dissertation written in German
on the Historical and Philosophical
background of Buddhist Festivals in Sri Lanka. He was registered as
By Nandi Jasentuliyana, former Deputy Director-General, the United Nations.View(s):
Book facts
By Bhadrajee S. Hewage
‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ – Socrates.
Rarely has so much been written both in the West and in the East about the work of a ‘revivalist,’ that one would conclude there is nothing left to be revealed of the man or his work. That is until you read Bhadrajee Hewage’s “Anagarika Dharmapala and Ceylonese Buddhist Revivalism.”
In his extensively researched and carefully crafted biography of the man whose mission was to make Buddhism a world religion, the author has presented the salient arguments of a plethora of writers who have dissected the vision and the mission of the complex man who was a nationalist but functioned in the international milieu. Dharmapala’s dual role in establishing cosmopolitan Buddhism abroad and nationalist Buddhism in Sri Lanka is apparent in the presentation of Hewage’s publication.