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  Manoratne was born on 12 June 1948 in Dehipe,   Nuwara Eliya   as the youngest son in the family of six children. His father Keselgaspe Manatunga Perera was a lorry driver and mother Agalakotuwa Herath Mudiyanselage Leela Kumari was a housewife. He undertook his education at the Dehipe Primary School and Poramadulla Central College. Jayalath has three brothers, Manatunga Seneviratne, Manatunga Wijeratne and Manatunga Ariyaratne and two sisters, Indra Kumari and Mallika Kumari. At an early age, his music teacher, Sunil Sriyananda, recognised his abilities and encouraged him to take up acting and singing. [6]  During his school times, he engaged in several educational as well as extra curricular activities such as Secretary of Sinhala Literary Association (1965), President of the Theater Council (1966), President of the Sinhala Association (1967–68) and Committee member of the Drama Board and Gandharva congregation (1969). Manoratne was the Student Leader at Boys' Ho...

  Gunananda Thera was born in 1823 to a rich Buddhist   Sinhala   Salagama   caste family in a village called Migettuwatta or Mohottiwatta, near   Balapitiya . His   secular name   was   Wanigamuni Miguel Mendes Wimalarathna . ]   Taught first by his parents, he exhibited oratorical skills from a young age. He had close contact with a Roman Catholic priest, who resided in a nearby church, and gained knowledge of the   Bible and   Christian doctrine .   Originally intending to become a priest, he changed his mind after coming into contact with Buddhist monks from the nearby temples. He was ordained while in his twenties in the Dodanduwa Gala Uda Vihara by Venerable   Thelikada   Sonutthara Thera, the chief incumbent of the temple. His eloquent first sermon was given on the night that he was ordained; the people gathered in the temple exclaimed that the young Thera would cause Buddhism to prosper in the country and pled...

  Anagarika Dharmapāla is noted because he was: the first global Buddhist missionary one of the founding contributors of  non-violent   Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism a leading figure in the  Sri Lankan independence movement  against British rule a pioneer in the revival of  Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct for several centuries the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the  Dhamma  in three continents:  Asia ,  North America , and  Europe . Along with  Henry Steel Olcott  and  Helena Blavatsky , the creators of the  Theosophical Society , he was a major reformer and revivalist of Sinhala Buddhism and an important figure in its western transmission. He also inspired a mass movement of South Indian Dalits including Tamils to embrace Buddhism, half a century before  B. R. Ambedkar .In his later life, he became a  Buddhist monk  with the name of Venerable Sri Devamitta Dharmapa...

  Maduwanwela Walawwa  is a  Walauwa located in upper South of  Sri Lanka . Situated in the town of  Kolonne , which lies between  Embilipitiya  and  Suriyakanda  in  Ratnapura District , a distance of 207 km (129 mi) from the  Colombo .   Maduwanwela  Walawwa  dates back to the reign of King   Wimaladharmasuriya II   (1687-1707 AD). [2]   It was built by Maduwanwela Maha Mohottala in the 1700s and was expanded numerous times by the Maduwanwela family until 1905 when the final expansion was undertaken by   Maduwanwela Maha Disawe . Maduwanwela walawwa        Maduwanwela Disawe                         Thank you ❤️