After the passing away of Venerable Neluwe Jinaratana Nayaka Mahathera, Venerable Uruwela Dhammaratana was unanimously appointed to hold the high post of General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India. He was the fourth General Secretary of the...
Most Venerable Jinaratana Nayaka Maha Thera, the General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society of India and the Vice-President of the Asian Buddhist Council for Peace was born on 17th March, 1913, at Neluwa, Galle District, in Sri Lanka....
He was the ‘Man’ behind Dharmapala’s – successful Buddhist missionary work for a long time. He was the ‘Man’ close to Ven. Siri Devamitta Dhammapala until the latter’s death. Sri Devapriya Valisinghe was appointed to the post of General...
By Bhikkhu Devamitta Dhammapala According to my horoscope I was born on Saturday the 17th in the month of September, in the year 2408 of Buddha’s parinirvana cor- responding to the Christian era 1864, in Colombo, in a prominent...
This great Hawaiian lady form the U.S.A. was the ‘Foster parent’ of Anagarika Dharmapala. Whenever Angarika Dharmapala was in need of financial assistance for his Buddhist revival work it is his ‘Foster mother’ that helped him with absolute confidence....
Angarika H. Dharmapala as the editor of the Maha Bodhi journal recording the death of Colonel Henry Steel Olcott in its 1907 February issue wrote:”…We have to record with sorrow the death of Colonel Olcott which took place at...
Sixty-eight years and six months ago,on a certain Tuesday in the Bengali month of Falgoon, there was born in the village of Purulia, Katwa, in the District of Burdwan, in the ancestral family house of the Mukherjis an heir...
The Sun of Ceylon has set. Universally respected by the millions of Buddhists in Asia for his immaculate character and superhuman learning the great and illustrious Buddhist Chief High Priest His Holiness Hikkaduva Sumangala, leaving thousands of scholarly pupils...
From the intellectual firmament of Bengal, a star of the first magnitude has fallen. The whole of Calcutta was convulsed with grief on Monday morning at the reception of the startling news that Sir Asutosh Mookherjee, the lion of...
Sir Mudliyar Hewawitharana & Lady Mallika Hewawitharana It is the parents who mould and shape the culture of a child both physically and mentally. Here, both Don Carolis and his wife Mallika brought up young David in a traditional...