Piyadassi_Maha_Thera

Piyadassi Maha Thera

Piyadassi Maha Thera

Sri Lankan Buddhist monk (1914–1998)

Piyadassi Maha Thera (Sinhala: පියදස්සි මහා ස්ථවිරයන් වහන්සේ, 8 July 1914 – 18 August 1998) was a preacher of the Dhamma both in Sinhala and in English. He was born on 8 July 1914 at Kotahena in Colombo, Sri Lanka and was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo, thereafter at the University of Sri Lanka and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University as a research student.

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At the age of twenty, he entered the Buddhist monastic order under Pelene Siri Vajiragnana Nayaka Thera, founder of the Vajirarama Bambalapitiya. Later, he received his higher ordination under the tutorship of Vajiranna, founding superior of the Vajirarama Colombo.[citation needed]

Piyadassi Maha Thera was the Sinhala editor at the Buddhist Publication Society until his death.[1] Along with Nyanaponika Thera, he was one of the chief kalyāṇamittas of American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi.[2]

Venerable Piyadassi Maha Thera lived to the age of 84 years and died on 18 August 1998.[citation needed]

Literature

Wheel Publications (BPS)

Bodhi Leaf Publications (BPS)

References

  1. [1]
    "Story of the Buddhist Publication Society" from "Buddhist Publication Society" at http://www.bps.lk/aboutus.asp.
  2. [2]
    In Bodhi (2000), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, p. 5, Bodhi dedicates the volume to "the memory of my teacher Venerable Abhidhajamaharatthaguru Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera (1896-1998) and to the memories of my chief kalyāṇamittas in my life as a Buddhist monk, Venerable Nyanaponika Mahathera (1901-1994) and Venerable Piyadassi Nayaka Thera (1914-1998)".

Further reading

  • By A. G. S. Kariyawasam "Ven. Piyadassi the great communicator". Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers. 18 August 2001. Archived from the original on 14 March 2008.
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