This is a Sinhala-language book, written and printed in Sinhala throughout, with no English text. Buyers outside Sri Lanka should know that reading it requires Sinhala.
The subject is the life of Anagarika Dharmapala. The book sets his story in the period when the country was under British rule and, as the author sees it, the Sinhala nation and its ways were steadily being worn down. Dharmapala is presented as a man who took up that situation as his single purpose — the protection of country and people — and who put his own life at risk in the struggle. The account follows his life from that angle rather than treating him as a figure of general interest.
The author is Ganegama Saranankara Thero. The book is published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Sri Lankan publishing house issuing books in Sinhala and English.
It will suit Sinhala readers with an interest in the Buddhist revival and the national movement under colonial rule, students working on the period, and readers abroad who want a Sinhala-language life of Dharmapala on their own shelves.
- Author: Ganegama Saranankara Thero
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552102363
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