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Anagarika Dharmapala

1864–1933 · 20th century

Anagarika Dharmapala was a Sri Lankan Buddhist reformer and a leader of the Buddhist revival in British Ceylon. In 1891 he founded the Maha Bodhi Society to restore the Buddhist site of Bodh Gaya, and he spread Buddhism abroad and promoted a Sinhalese Buddhist identity that influenced the later nationalist movement.

Anagarika Dharmapala
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British Ceylon

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