Question: Facts: - residence: sri lanka - death date: 28 december 1985 - field: education , buddhism - work institution: ananda sastralaya , kotte - birth date: march 05 , 1905 - name: dr. e. w. adikaram - ethnicity: sinhalese - nationality: sri lankan - birth place: sri lanka - religion: theravada buddhism Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of e. w. adikaram .
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kalutara koralalage edward winifred brito adikaram -lrb- 5 march 1905 -- 28 december 1985 -rrb- was an educationalist , writer and a social activist in sri lanka .in 1931 he obtained an m.a degree from london school of oriental studies and in 1933 a ph.d. on the thesis '' early history of buddhism in ceylon '' .after returning to sri lanka he started to teach in ananda sastralaya , kotte and in 1934 , he became the principal of the school .he was a prominent nonviolence activist in sri lanka