Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera (Sinhalese: හික්කඩුවේ ශ්රි සුමංගල නාහිමි; 20 January 1827 – 29 April 1911) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, who was one of the pioneers of Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist movement in the 19th century. He did a great service to improve the Buddhist Education in the country and was the founder of Vidyodaya Pirivena, Maligakanda in 1873 which was granted the university status later in 1959 by the Government of Sri Lanka. A veteran author and a fiery orator, he was a major figure in the Panadurawadaya, a religious debate held between Christian missionaries and Buddhist monks in 1873 at Panadura, Sri Lanka. He was well versed in Sinhala, Pali, Sanskrit, English, Buddhism, History, Arithmetic, and Archaeology and was one of the primary sources of information on Buddh
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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera (Sinhalese: හික්කඩුවේ ශ්රි සුමංගල නාහිමි; 20 January 1827 – 29 April 1911) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, who was one of the pioneers of Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist movement in the 19th century. He did a great service to improve the Buddhist Education in the country and was the founder of Vidyodaya Pirivena, Maligakanda in 1873 which was granted the university status later in 1959 by the Government of Sri Lanka. A veteran author and a fiery orator, he was a major figure in the Panadurawadaya, a religious debate held between Christian missionaries and Buddhist monks in 1873 at Panadura, Sri Lanka. He was well versed in Sinhala, Pali, Sanskrit, English, Buddhism, History, Arithmetic, and Archaeology and was one of the primary sources of information on Buddh
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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera ...... uccess of the Panadura debate.
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1827-01-20
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1911-04-29
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Chief Monk of Colombo Nawa Korale
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Chief Monk of Galle District
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Chief Monk of Sri Pada
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Chief of Siyam Nikaya
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Thripitaka Vaagishwaracharya
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721,212,629
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Niculus Gunawardhana
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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera
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Most Ven.Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera
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Parama Dhamma Chetiya Pirivena, Ratmalana
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teacher
Walane Sri Siddhartha Maha Thera.
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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera ...... ources of information on Buddh
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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera
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