The Venerable Ambalangoda Polwatte Buddhadatta Mahanayake Thera (A. P. Buddhadatta) (1887–1962) was a

Theravada ''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' ...

Buddhist Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...

monk A monk (, from el, μοναχός, ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decides to dedica ...

and a professor of Buddhist philosophy at

Vidyalankara University Pannaya Parisujjhati , mottoeng = Self-purification is by insight , established = 1875 Vidyalankara Pirivena1959 Vidyalankara University , type = Public , endowment = , adminis ...

. During 1928 he travelled to Switzerland to teach Pāli but found no suitable students. In 1954, he was the first

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 monk to be awarded as the

Agga Maha Pandita Aggamahāpaṇḍita ( my, အဂ္ဂမဟာပဏ္ဍိတ, ) is an honorific Burmese Buddhist title conferred by the Myanmar government to distinguished Theravada Buddhist monks. Etymology Aggamahāpandiṭa, meaning "foremost great an ...

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

(Myanmar). He wrote several books on

Pali language Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or ''Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of ''Theravāda'' Buddhism ...

, and was a member of the inaugural staff of

Nalanda College, Colombo ''Āpadāna Sobhinī Panñā'' , motto_translation = Character Illumines Wisdom , established = , founder = Patrick de Silva Kularatne , type = National , grades = ...

and a member of the Ananda College staff.

Works

*''Concise Pali-English Dictionary'' (1957) *Pali Sahithya (1962) *Oalibhasappawesaniya (Pali grammer teacher in Burmese - 1908) *Pali Nigandu (Burmese - English word builder for pali words- 1908) *Buddhagosoppathi Pali book transleted to Burmese (1908) *Bhidhamma Mathruka Swarupaya - Transletion from Burmese to Sinhala (1911) *Pali Basappaweniya -Sinhala Translation (1912) *Visuddhi Magga Edition (1914) *Pali Bashawatharanaya 1 (1923) *Pali Bashawatharanaya 2 (1925) *Pali Patawali (1926) *Thribhasha Rathnakaraya (1928) *Apadhana Pali Edition (1929) *Pali Bashawatharanaya 3 (1930) *Pali Wakya Vivechanaya (1933) *Pali Wakya Rachanawa ha Pariwarthana Parichaya (1947) *Patamapaatawali (1948) *Pali -Sinhala Dictionary (1950) *Winya Winichchaya ha Uththara Winichchaya Edition (1952) *Thripitaka Suchiya (1953) *Abhidhammawathara Edition (1954) *Namarupa Parichcheda Edition (1954) *Dhammapadhattakatha Edition (1956) *Jinakalamali Sinhala Translation (1957) *Namarupa Parichcheda English Edition (1914) *Abhidhammawathara English Edition (1915) *Ruparupa Wibhagaya English Edition (1915) *Sammoha Winodhini English Edition (1923) *Winaya Winichchaya & Uththara Winichchaya English Edition (1927) *Niddesa Atuwa (1940) *New Pali Course 1 (1937) *New Pali Course 2 (1938) *Higher Pali Course (1951) *Aids to Pali Conversation & Translation (1951)

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Biography of Polwatte Buddhadhatta Maha Swaminwahanse
* 1887 births 1962 deaths Academics of the University of Kelaniya Pali-language writers Sinhalese academics Faculty of Nalanda College, Colombo Sri Lankan Buddhist monks Theravada Buddhist monks Theravada Buddhism writers Faculty of Ananda College 20th-century Buddhist monks Sri Lankan recipients of Agga Maha Pandita {{SriLanka-bio-stub

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