Anagarika Dharmapala

Anagarika Dharmapala (; 17 September 1864 - 29 April 1933) adalah tokoh kebangkitan dan penulis Buddha Sri Lanka. Ia adalah salah satu pendiri gerakan Nasionalisme dan Buddhisme Sinhala yang non-kekerasan.

Sebuah jalan di Colombo dinamai sesuai dengan namanya " Srimath Anagarika dharmapala mawatha.

Kehidupan awal 

Lahir pada 17 September 1864 di Colombo, Ceylon dari pasangan Don Carolis Hewavitharana dan Mallika Dharmagunawardhana (putri dari Andiris Perera Dharmagunawardhana), yang merupakan pedagang terkaya di Ceylon pada waktu itu. Ia dinamai Don David Hewavitharane. Adik laki-lakinya adalah Dr Charles Alwis Hewavitharana dan Edmund Hewavitarne.

Kontribusi religius 
Pada tahun 1897 ia membuat Miranda de Souza Canavarro yang dikenal sebagai "Suster Sanghamitta" menganut agama Buddha dan membentuk sekolah di Sri Lanka (Ceylon).

Sumber 

 
 
 Anagarika Dharmapala Archive at Vipassana Fellowship 
 WWW Virtual Library: ANAGARIKA DHARMAPALA at www.lankalibrary.com
 Anagarika Dharmapala, The Arya Dharma - Free eBook
 Anagarika Dharmapala, Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala, ed. Ananda W.P. Guruge, The Anagarika Dharmapala Birth Centenary Committee, Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Ceylon 1965
 DeVotta, Neil. "The Utilisation of Religio-Linguistic Identities by the Sinhalese and Bengalis: Towards General Explanation". Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol. 39, No. 1 (March 2001), pp. 66–95.
 Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero, 'Budu Sasuna Bebala Wu Asahaya Dharma Duthayano', Divaina, 17 September 2008 
 Sangharakshita, Flame in Darkness: The Life and Sayings of Anagarika Dharmapala, Triratna Grantha Mala, Poona 1995
 Sangharakshita, Anagarika Dharmapala, a Biographical Sketch, and other Maha Bodhi Writings, Ibis Publications, 2013
 Daya Sirisena, 'Anagarika Dharmapala - trail-blazing servant of the Buddha', Daily News, 17 September 2004 
 Anagarika Dharmapala A religio-cultural hero 

 Bartholomeusz, Tessa J. 1993. "Dharmapala at Chicago: Mahayana Buddhist or Sinhala Chauvinist?" Museum of Faiths. Atlanta: Scholars Pr. 235-250.
 Gombrich, Richard F. 1988. Theravada Buddhism; A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
 Harvey, Peter. 1990. An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History, and Practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Kloppenborg, Ria. 1992. "The Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) and the Puritan Pattern". Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift, 46:4, 277-283.
 McMahan, David L. 2008. The Making of Buddhist Modernism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 91-97, 110-113.
 Obeyesekere, Gananath 1976. "Personal Identity and Cultural Crisis: the Case of Anagārika Dharmapala of Sri Lanka." Biographical Process. The Hague: Mouton. 221-252.
 Prothero, Stephen. 1996a. "Henry Steel Olcott, Anagarika Dharmapala and the Maha Bodhi Society." Theosophical History, 6:3, 96-106.
 Prothero, Stephen. 1996b. The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
 Saroja, G V. 1992. "The Contribution of Anagarika Devamitta Dharmapāla to the Revival of Buddhism in India." Buddhist Themes in Modern Indian lLterature, Madras: Inst. of Asian Studies. 27-38.

Genealogi 

 Genealogical Charts of Sri Lankan Sinhalese Families: Family #3006 (Wijeyaguneratne) Don Carolis Hewavitharana
 Genealogical Charts of Sri Lankan Sinhalese Families: Family #3007 DHARMAGUNEWARDENA, Lansage Andiris Perera

Kelahiran 1864
Kematian 1933