Ven. Weragoda Sarada Maha Thero
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Ven. Weragoda Sarada Maha Thero is the founder and chief administrator of Singapore Buddhist Meditation Centre.
Biography
Ven. Weragoda Sarada Maha Thero was born in Sri Lanka in 1941, in a devout Buddhist family. He was ordained a Buddhist monk in 1953, when he was just 12. He pursued his higher education at the University of Sri Jayawardhanapura, Sri Lanka and obtained his first degree in 1964. He was the principal, Indurupathvila University College 1967-1969, and the principal of Sudhramarama University college.
Ven. Weragoda was the principal of Mahindarama Sunday Pali School in Penang, Malaysia, until 1979. In that year he went to Singapore and founded the Singapore Buddhist Meditation Centre.
Ven. Weragoda pioneered the founding of the American Sri Lanka Buddhist Association of which he is still the director. In addition he is the current general secretary of Japan Sri Lanka Buddhist Centre, of which he was the founder-president. Ven. Weragoda is also the chief incumbent monk of Jayanthi Viharaya, Sri Lanka.
His unique publications programme is distinguished by a whole series of records. His monumental work Treasury of Truth - Illustrated Dhammapada is unparalleled for more than 2000 telephone calls it elicited just in one day. This must undoubtedly be a world record in the field of Buddhist publications. Today, he has more than 185 titles to his credit. His works appear in Sinhala, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English. He has moved on to electronic media, to present the Buddha's word to the world. Though his work Treasury of Truth- Illustrated Dhammapada is his current magnum opus, his greatest is yet to come. It is the Illustrated Jataka Tales with a thousand especially commissioned illustrations to adorn the book and support the text.
Blessed with an unusual imagination, Ven. Weragoda Sarada Maha Thero is positively future-oriented. His motto is to spread the word of the Buddha for the good of the many – for the well-being of the many.
- From the original article by Edwin Ariyadasa
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