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Anagarika Dharmapala
http://www.vipassana.com/resources/dharm
The purpose of the Anagarika Dharmapala Archive is to honour this Sinhalese Buddhist activist who contributed so greatly to the revival of Theravada Buddhism in the latter part of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century. His passion for maintaini...ng the purity of the Dhamma and for ensuring its effective dissemination remains an inspiration for Buddhists of today. Anagarika Dharmapala's written legacy has not been widely available outside of Sri Lanka. This site hopes to rectify this by making his essays and speeches more widely available. It is a long term project and new material will be added as it is sourced and formatted.
Just over a century ago there was born a man destined to burn with a desire to spur the people of Sri Lanka with a deep sense of patriotism, nationalism and service...
Anagarika Dharmapala "Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma."
Anagarika Dharmapala "Religion is a thing of the heart, and it is beyond the power of man to go into the heart of other people. To oppress a human being for his inner conviction is diabolical."
Anagarika Dharmapala "In contrast to my wine-drinking, meat-eating and pleasure-loving missionary teachers, the Bhikkhus were meek and abstemious. I loved their company and would sit quietly in a corner and listen to their wise discourse, even when it was far above my head."
Born David Hewavitarne in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was then a British colony known as Ceylon, so Hewavitarne's state education was a Christian one: he attended Christian College, Kotte and the Colombo Academy. But the historical tide in Ceylon was beginning to turn in Buddhism's favour...
The wife of hewa withar anage don carolis awealthy businessman delivered a son on sun day september 17,1864...
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