THE AUTHOR

 

 

The Venerable Piyadassi Thera is a native of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). He was educated at Nalanda College, and thereafter at the University of Sri Lanka. At the age of twenty he entered the Buddhist Order, and mastered the religion and philosophy of Buddhism under the tutorship of the Venerable Vajiranana, Sangha Nayaka, a well known authority on Buddhism. Also, he was one time a research student at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, U.S.A. Today the author is one of the leading Buddhist monks; a forceful preacher of great renown, and a popular speaker over the radio in Sri Lanka.

 

He has represented Sri Lanka at several international religious and cultural conferences.

 

Having travelled widely carrying the message of the Dhamma both to the East and to the West, he is able to write in a manner that has an universal appeal.