Amunugama’s book on Anagarika captures international review interest Source:Island SARATH AMUNUGAMA: The Lion’s Roar: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Making of Modern Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. ix + 556. Sarath Amunugama’s The Lion’s Roar: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Making of Modern Buddhism offers a comprehensive yet very readable account of the life and influence of Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933). In Sri Lanka, Dharmapala is revered for reviving Sinhalese Buddhism and for restoring Sri Lankan pride during a period of colonial domination. He is also admired for his lifelong struggle to establish Buddhist management of Buddhist sacred sites in India. Scholars of religion have tended to identify Dharmapala as the founder of “Protestant Buddhism,” that is to say, of a form of Buddhism heavily influenced by “Protestant” thinking in its doctrines and forms and thus rendered acceptable to the modern mentality. ...
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Royal Recitals of beer stoppers and cigarettes-by Lalin Fernando Source:Island For the first time since the Bradby began there will be no matches this year due to the Corona virus. To relieve the deep disappointment of Trinity and Royal the Sunday Island (15 November 2020) carried an extraordinary article by Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama (my cousin) ‘The Tale of the Beer Stopper and the Markowich Cigarette’. In it he claims Royal that won the Bradby in 1956. No amount of contradiction, persuasion or proof offered made him relent. (Disce nothing aut never Discede) At the 1956 Bradby Royal was cut to pieces by Trinity in the first leg losing 15-0 (Colombo and in the Kandy return by 11-0. ...
PROFESSOR ABHAYA ATTANAYAKE Source:Island Last week brought news of the death of Professor Abhaya Attanayake at the ripe age of 84-years after a distinguished career as a pioneer of teaching of Cartography at graduate and post graduate level at the University of Jayawardenapura. Abhaya and I entered Peradeniya University in 1957, he from St Peters College and I from Trinity. We were both lodged in Arunachalam Hall and we began a friendship which lasted over 50 years. We both belonged to a small group of like minded students who were interested in the arts and culture which included HL Seneviratne, JB Dissanayake, Dhammika Amerasinghe, HL Perera, PAS Saram, Rex Casinader, PR Fonseka and Dudley Dissanayake. They are now spread all over the world and Dudley passed away several years ago. ...
Oct 5, 2020
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REMEMBERING DIANA CAPTAIN – By SARATH AMUNUGAMA Source:Island A few weeks ago I was preoccupied with a devastating personal tragedy when the news of Diana’s death reached me adding to my grief. She was a beautiful,compassionate and lovable lady whom I had known from my student days at Trinity College Kandy. Kandy in the nineteen fifties was an idyllic town with many civic amenities. Of them the most important for us were the libraries and bookshops that dotted the town. Trinity had an impressive library which functioned under our teacher Vernon Jansze. He had co-opted some of us as curators who helped in the ordering of books, classifying them and stamping them with the college seal. As curators we could use the library freely not only during off periods but also during weekends. ...
Mar 30, 2020
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