Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera

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Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera was a prominent 19th-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar who played a key role in the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist monk
Buddhist scholar
Sri Lankan person
Theravada Buddhist monk
educationist
religious leader
cause defense of Buddhism under colonial rule
promotion of Buddhist learning
centuryActive 19th century
continentOfCitizenship Asia
countryOfCitizenship Sri Lanka NERFINISHED
era British colonial period in Ceylon
ethnicGroup Sinhalese NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Buddhist studies
Pali studies
Sinhala Buddhist literature
religious education
gender male
hasOccupation monk
scholar
teacher
honorificPrefix Sri
honorificSuffix Nayaka Thera NERFINISHED
ideology Buddhist modernism
influenced Buddhist lay organizations in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Buddhist education
later generations of Sri Lankan monks
languageOfWorkOrName Pali
Sinhala
movement Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka
notableFor Buddhist education in Sri Lanka
Buddhist scholarship
leadership in 19th-century Sri Lankan Buddhism
revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka
partOf Sri Lankan Buddhist clergy
placeOfActivity Ceylon NERFINISHED
Sri Lanka NERFINISHED
positionHeld Mahanayaka Thera
chief prelate of a Buddhist monastic order in Sri Lanka
religion Buddhism
Theravada
surface form: Theravada Buddhism
title Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera NERFINISHED
Sri Sumangala Thera NERFINISHED

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Gangaramaya Temple foundedBy Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera