An English-language title from Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house that publishes across Sinhala and English.
The name Vidyodaya carries weight in Sri Lanka. It belongs first to the Vidyodaya Pirivena at Maligakanda in Colombo, the monastic college founded in the nineteenth century by Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera, and later to the university that grew from it, now the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. A reader drawn to this book will most likely be someone with an interest in that lineage — the pirivena tradition, Buddhist learning in Colombo, or the institutions that shaped Sri Lankan scholarship.
Cyril Chandrasekara Goonewardena writes here in English, so the book is accessible to readers abroad and to Sri Lankans who do not read Sinhala comfortably. It is a slim volume rather than a long study.
Of interest to those building a shelf of Sri Lankan writing in English, to readers following Buddhist educational history, and to anyone with a personal connection to Vidyodaya.
- Author: Cyril Chandrasekara Goonewardena
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: English
- Pages: 84
- ISBN: 9789553034632
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