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Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera

Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera

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The Venerable Ambalangoda Polwatte Buddhadatta Mahanayake Thera (A. P. Buddhadatta) (1887–1962) was a Theravada Buddhist monk and a professor of Buddhist philosophy at Vidyalankara University.[1] During 1928 he travelled to Switzerland[2] to teach Pāli but found no suitable students.

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In 1954,[3] he was the first Sri Lankan monk to be awarded as the Agga Maha Pandita by Burma (Myanmar).[1] He wrote several books on Pali language, and was a member of the inaugural staff of Nalanda College, Colombo and a member of the Ananda College staff.[1]

Works

  • Concise Pali-English Dictionary (1957)
  • Pali Sahithya (1962)
  • Oalibhasappawesaniya (Pali grammer teacher in Burmese - 1908)
  • Pali Nigandu (Burmese - English word builder for pali words- 1908)
  • Buddhagosoppathi Pali book transleted to Burmese (1908)
  • Bhidhamma Mathruka Swarupaya - Transletion from Burmese to Sinhala (1911)
  • Pali Basappaweniya -Sinhala Translation (1912)
  • Visuddhi Magga Edition (1914)
  • Pali Bashawatharanaya 1 (1923)
  • Pali Bashawatharanaya 2 (1925)
  • Pali Patawali (1926)
  • Thribhasha Rathnakaraya (1928)
  • Apadhana Pali Edition (1929)
  • Pali Bashawatharanaya 3 (1930)
  • Pali Wakya Vivechanaya (1933)
  • Pali Wakya Rachanawa ha Pariwarthana Parichaya (1947)
  • Patamapaatawali (1948)
  • Pali -Sinhala Dictionary (1950)
  • Winya Winichchaya ha Uththara Winichchaya Edition (1952)
  • Thripitaka Suchiya (1953)
  • Abhidhammawathara Edition (1954)
  • Namarupa Parichcheda Edition (1954)
  • Dhammapadhattakatha Edition (1956)
  • Jinakalamali Sinhala Translation (1957)
  • Namarupa Parichcheda English Edition (1914)
  • Abhidhammawathara English Edition (1915)
  • Ruparupa Wibhagaya English Edition (1915)
  • Sammoha Winodhini English Edition (1923)
  • Winaya Winichchaya & Uththara Winichchaya English Edition (1927)
  • Niddesa Atuwa (1940)
  • New Pali Course 1 (1937)
  • New Pali Course 2 (1938)
  • Higher Pali Course (1951)
  • Aids to Pali Conversation & Translation (1951)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Religious instructors". ncba.nalanda.sch.lk. Archived from the original on 8 January 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  2. [2]
    Buddhist Annual of Ceylon, 1928, p. 161
  3. [3]
    thichnhattu. "Dda.o Pha^.t Nga'y Nay, default page-english". Buddhism Today. Retrieved 2012-04-04.


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