About

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Arts, Buddhasravaka Bhikku University
• Master of Arts, Taiwan National University
• Ph.D, University of Ruhuna

Official Positions:

• Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nāgānanda International Institute for Buddhist Studies
• Advisor to His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka on International Religious and Cultural Affairs
• Founder and Director of Theravada Samadhi Education Association, Taipei, Taiwan
• The Chief Sri Lankan Buddhist Representative for Taiwan
• Director for Cultural Committee of the World Buddhist Sangha Council

• Instructor to the Corporate Body of the Buddha Education Foundation in Taiwan
• President of the Maha Bodhichariya Foundation, Sri Lanka
• Founder of Sri Lanka Dharma Chakkra Child Foundation
• Founder of Lianxin Kindergarten, Sri Lanka
• Chief Incumbent of the Manelwatta Temple, Bollegala, Kelaniya
• Chief Incumbent of Sri Vijayaramaya Temple, Ratmalana
• Chief Incumbent of Pacchimaramaya Temple, Debarawewa

Honorary Titles:

• “Pariyatti Vibhushana” awarded by the Kotte Sangha Council of the Siyam Sector in Sri Lanka
• “Jaathyanthara Dharma Visarada” awarded by Amarapura Supreme Sangha Council of Sri Lanka
• “Lokatthacari” awarded by Sarvodaya
• “The Most Venerable Kiriwatthuduwe Sri Pragnasara Memorial Award” – by All Ceylon Buddhist Congress

Social Services:

• Founding of Dharma Chakkra Child Foundation and commencing 11 kindergarten schools throughout Sri Lanka.
• Constructing more than 600 houses for Tsunami victims in Ambalanthota, Bataatha and Panama.
• Constructing Samadhigama in Uhapitigoda, Ambalanthota, including a hospital complex, a stadium, a playground, a computer centre, communication hall and helping centre.
• Constructed houses for the victims of civil war in the Anuradhapura District.
• Constructed houses for Nargis Cyclone victims in Myanmar, in addition to providing victims with medical services, food items, clothes, school equipment and other daily necessities.
• Offered scholarships for medical students of need in Sri Lankan universities, students in schools and young monks in Pirivenas.
• Offered scholarships to the monks coming to Sri Lanka for studies, from India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
• Hundred millions of Sri Lankan Rupees was donated to sixty flood-devastated Buddhist temples in Galle, Matara, Hambantota and Badulla districts.
• Monetary donations were given to assist the reconstruction work in Bhutan, after the  earthquake.

Religious Missions:

• Established Theravada Samadhi Education Association in Taiwan which functions as a religious education centre.
• Re-publication of Tripitaka and distributing these texts over thousand Buddhist education centres and higher education institutes in Sri Lanka and over hundred Buddhist temples in overseas.
• Establishing International Bhikkhuni Academy of Buddhist Studies in Manelwatta, Kelaniya.
• Given ordination for many Sri Lankan, Nepalese and Myanmar novices and directing them to different monasteries in Sri Lanka to train in Buddhist doctrines and discipline.
• Publishing and distributing Dhamma School text books worthy of sixteen millions of Sri Lankan Rupee among Sunday Dhamma Schools.
• In order to promote Buddhism, is actively associated with a number of International Buddhist Organizations.