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Yakupitiyage Karunadasa is a
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
n scholar in Buddhist Studies. His main areas of specialization are Early Buddhism and Theravada
Abidhamma The Abhidharma are ancient (third century BCE and later) Buddhist texts which contain detailed scholastic presentations of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist ''sutras''. It also refers to the scholastic method itself as well as the f ...
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Education and career

Y. Karunadasa obtained a First Class Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ceylon in 1958, a Ph.D. from the University of London in 1963, and was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Kelaniya in 2002. He is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Kelaniya, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and as the Director of its Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies. He has also served as the Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, as Distinguished Numata Chair Professor at the University of Calgary, and as Tung Lin Kok Yuen Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto. Currently he teaches at the Center of Buddhist Studies of the University of Hong Kong as the MaMa Charitable Foundation Visiting Professor. In 1997 he was felicitated with a volume of articles on Buddhist Studies written by his colleagues. In 2005 he was decorated with the title of Sri Lanka Sikhamani by the Government of
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
in recognition of his meritorious service to the country of his birth.


Publications


Books

*''The Buddhist Analysis of Matter'', (reprinted), The Buddhist Research Society, Singapore, 1989, pp. I-XVIII, 1986. *''The Dhamma Theory: Philosophical Cornerstone of the Abhidhamma'', Wheel Publications No. 412/413, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, 1996. *''The Atthakatha Correspondence Table'', in collaboration with Sodo Mori and T. Endo, Pali Text Society, London, 1995 Mori, Sodo, Y. Karunadasa & Toshiichi Endo (1994). Pali Atthakatha Correspondence Table. Oxford: Pali Text Society. Atthakatha *''Theravada Abhidhamma : its inquiry into the nature of conditioned reality'' Published by Centre for Buddhist Studies, Hong Kong University, 2010 *''Early Buddhist Teachings: The Middle Position in Theory and Practice'' Published by Centre for Buddhist Studies, Hong Kong University, 2013


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Buddhist scholar draws crowd to campus for lecture on time and space

A Thoughtful Life: Professor Karunadasa Looks Back on His Career, Teaching, and Buddhist Studies
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karunadasa, Y Living people 1934 births Sri Lankan scholars of Buddhism Theravada Buddhism writers Sri Lankan philosophers Alumni of the University of London Alumni of the University of Ceylon (Peradeniya) Sinhalese academics Sri Lankan Buddhists Sri Lanka Sikhamani