Anagarika Dharmapala an excellent example of Asian Buddhist
modernist
Dharmapala was born to a rich aristocratic family
of Southern Sri Lanka on September 17, 1864. His parents were
Mudliyar Don Carolis Hewavitharana and Mallika Dharmagunawardhana.
Sri Lanka was then a British colony known as Ceylon, so
Hewavitarana’s state education was an English one: he attended
Christian College, Kotte and the Colombo Academy, now known as Royal
College.
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Solid education system for IDP children
Statement of Disaster Management and Human Rights Ministry
Secretary Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha responding to the Special
Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
Sri Lanka welcomes the statement of the Special
Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, and registers again
its gratitude that Ms Coomaraswamy made crystal clear, when other
branches of the UN seemed to condone this, her condemnation of the
LTTE for breaching national and international law in its recruitment
of child soldiers.
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Reflections on ‘The New Sri Lanka’
As a Buddhist monk engaged in various Dhammaduta
activities, I have lived primarily in the United States for the past
eleven years, and before that I was living in Japan. I always return
to Sri Lanka each year, and I recently returned to Los Angeles from
a two-month visit, where I had the opportunity to observe first-hand
many of the changes that are taking place in our post-war country.
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