Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera Explained

Agga Maha Pandita Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera
Dharma Name:Ven. Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera
Birth Place:Sri Lanka
Death Place:Sri Lanka
Nationality:Sri Lankan
Religion:Buddhism
School:Theravada
Teacher:Theravada Buddhist monk and professor of Buddhist philosophy at Vidyalankara University

The Venerable Ambalangoda Polwatte Buddhadatta Mahanayake Thera (A. P. Buddhadatta) (1887–1962) was a Theravada Buddhist monk and a professor of Buddhist philosophy at Vidyalankara University.[1] During 1928 he travelled to Switzerland[2] to teach Pāli but found no suitable students.

In 1954,[3] he was the first Sri Lankan monk to be awarded as the Agga Maha Pandita by Burma (Myanmar).[1] He wrote several books on Pali language, and was a member of the inaugural staff of Nalanda College, Colombo and a member of the Ananda College staff.[1]

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  1. Web site: Religious instructors . ncba.nalanda.sch.lk . 31 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130108135204/http://ncba.nalanda.sch.lk/?page_id=76 . 8 January 2013 .
  2. Buddhist Annual of Ceylon, 1928, p. 161
  3. Web site: thichnhattu . Dda.o Pha^.t Nga'y Nay, default page-english . Buddhism Today . 2012-04-04.

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