Misplaced Pages

Harispattuwe Ariyawanshalankara

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka
The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Harispattuwe Ariyawanshalankara" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Ven. Harispattuwe Ariyawanshalankara Nayaka Thero (1939–2014) was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka. He was popular as a pious monk who had delivered great service to both Buddhism and society in Sri Lanka.

Early life

He was born in the village of Maruddana as Dharmasena Ariyathilaka, in Kandy on 18 October 1939. his father was a businessman, Lamanige Jemis Sinho, and his mother, Pathirajage Gunavathi, were both from Harsipattuwa. His childhood was marked with poverty after the death of his father. He received his education at Molagoda School, Nugawela Central College and the Pirivenas, obtaining degrees from the Vidyalankara University and Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka. He also obtained a Diploma in Education from the Open University of Sri Lanka. He started his career as a teacher and retired in 1975. He became a Buddhist monk in Ramanna sect in 2000. He obtained a doctorate at the age of 74 from University of Kelaniya.

Service to Buddhism and society

He functioned as the chief incumbent of International Vipassana Meditation Center of Colombo for 13 years, through which meditation became popular among the Buddhist laymen. He appeared in popular television shows like Doramandalawa in dhamma discussions and delivered many dhamma sermons, which were popular among the people. Venerable Harispattuwe Ariyawanshalankara thero was also a philanthropist who had donated money he received for the benefit of the society rather than his own use. He died in 2014. The funeral was plainly held and even the money collected for the ceremony was used to construct a house for a needy family as the lastwill of thero before his death. He was also the chairman of Temperance Movement of Sri Lanka and has written several books on Buddhism.

References

  1. "හාරිස්පත්තුවේ ආරියවංශාලංකාර හිමි" (in Sinhala). Silumina. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. "හාරිස්‌පත්තුවේ නාහිමියෝ අපවත් වෙති". Divaina Online news Paper (in Sinhala). Divaina. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  3. "A noble gesture of Ven.Ariyawanshalankara Nayaka Thero fulfilled". NEWS.LK. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  4. "Monetary Donations Received for Monk's Funeral Used for a Worthy Cause". Sri Lanka Army. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  5. "Ceremony to felicitate Ven. Harispattuwe Ariyawansalankara Thera". The Buddhist Channel TV. Retrieved 13 June 2017.


Stub icon

This Sri Lankan biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: