Visiting Monks

Venerable Rambukpotha Chandrasiri Thero became a monk when he was twelve years old. He has been a monk for forty years now. He was born in a beautiful village called Rambukpotha in Kandy district. He studied at the Sri Dharmapala Buddhist monk training centre at Bellana with Bhante Rewatha. He subsequently became a teacher at the same college. He is now the deputy abbot of Sri Nigridharamaya at Nawalakanda,Kalawana in Ratnapura district. He is here with us for the rains retreat.



Venerable Pinikahane Samitha Thero is from Galle district, Sri Lanka. He became a monk at the age of 13 and completed his monastic training at the Sri Amarawansa monks’ training college in Baddegama .He completed the Royal Pandith degree, the highest degree of traditional monks’ education in 1998. He completed his degree in Sanskrit at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka with Bhante Rewatha in 2000. He followed this by becoming a teacher at the Buddhist monk training college in Galle and is now the principal of Vidyaloka college, Galle. He has been a monk for 26 years.



Venerable Kattakaduwe Sumanarathana Thero.
He studied at Bellana Pirivena where Bhante Rewatha was his instructor. Venerable Sumanarathana became a monk when he was 12 years old. He was born in Kattakaduwa village in Hambanthota district. He completed the Royal Pandith degree, which is the highest degree of traditional monks’ education in 2004 and completed his MA in Buddhism and Pali at the University of Kelaniya in 2007. In 2004 he became a teacher at Sri Dharmapala Pirivena, Bellana and completed his post graduate diploma in education in 2008. Venerable Sumanarathana has been a monk for eighteen years.