" The " Sura Virodhi Vyaparaya " against alcoholism launched by Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala in 1895, was seen by the British rulers as a direct attack on their regime which were rented out taverns to get revenue for government coffers.

Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala in his middle thirties

However, there is a story about Ramananda which claims he escaped death altogether by entering a Samadhi state, a meditative state and remaining alive, where his Charan paduka is still visible at Srimath in Kashi.

He was a founder member, together with Anagarika Dharmapala, of the Mahabodhi Society of India.

* 1893: The World Parliament of Religions meets in Chicago, Illinois ; Anagarika Dharmapala and Soyen Shaku attend.

His view of Buddha influenced Sri Lankan leaders, such as Anagarika Dharmapala.

Olcott and Anagarika Dharmapala were associates, which reflects both men ’ s awareness of the divide between East and West — as seen in their presentation of Buddhism to the West.

A short time later, in 1891, the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala started a campaign to return control of the temple to Buddhists, over the objections of the mahant.

In 1913, Anagarika Dharmapala took a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi to Hawai ' i, where he presented it to his benefactor, Mary Foster – who had funded much Buddhist missionary work.

The buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala in his work Daily Code for the Laity in 1898 wrote that a sari blouse must be long covering fully the women's breasts, midriff, navel and back.

* Anagarika Dharmapala: A Biographical Sketch

* Anagarika Dharmapala

Anagarika Dharmapala ( Sinhala: අනග ා ර ි ක ධර ් මප ා ල ) ( 17 September 1864-29 April 1933 ) was a leading figure of Buddhism in the twentieth century.

It was in this period that Hewavitarne changed his name to Anagarika Dharmapala.

In 1891 Anagarika Dharmapala was on a pilgrimage to the recently restored Mahabodhi Temple, where Siddhartha Gautama-the Buddha-attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, India.

Anagarika Dharmapala did not hesitate to lay the chief blame for the decline of Buddhism in India at the door of Muslim fanaticism.

Most of Dharmapala's works are collected in Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala.

Anagarika Dharmapala at the Parliament of World Religions. From left to right: Virchand Gandhi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Swami Vivekananda, and G. Bonet Maury.

* Anagarika Dharmapala Archive at Vipassana Fellowship

* Anagarika Dharmapala, The Arya Dharma-Free eBook

* Anagarika Dharmapala, Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala, ed.

In 1891, while on pilgrimage to the recently restored Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, the location where Siddhartha Gautama ( the Buddha ) attained enlightenment, Anagarika Dharmapala had experienced a shock to find the temple in the hands of a Saivite priest, the Buddha image transformed into a Hindu icon and Buddhists barred from worship as a result of which he began an agitation movement.

* Lama Anagarika Govinda, The Pioneer Translator of Buddhist literature, Stayed at Crank's Ridge ( Kasardevi ), District Almora,

From Right to Left: Swami Vivekanand, Anagarika Dharampala, Virchand Gandhi at stage of 1893's Parliament of World religions

In 1893, the Buddhist preacher Anagarika Dharmapala was invited there as a representative of " Southern Buddhism "-which was the term applied at that time to the Theravada.

Lama Anagarika Govinda ( May 17, 1898 – January 14, 1985 ), born Ernst Lothar Hoffman was the founder of the order of the Arya Maitreya Mandala and an expositor of Tibetan Buddhism, Abhidharma, Buddhist Meditation as well as other aspects of Buddhism.

* Buddhist Ashram Established by Lama Anagarika Govinda, Crank's Ridge ( Kasardevi ), District Almora,

Modern western witnesses of this practice include the adventurer Alexandra David-Néel ( David-Néel, 1971 ), Lama Anagarika Govinda ( Govinda, 1988 ), and anthropologist Dr. John Crook.

It finds its origins in modernist influences on the traditions of Burma, Laos, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the innovations and popularisations by Theravāda teachers as Mahasi Sayadaw (" New Burmese Method "), Ledi Sayadaw ( the Ledi lineage ), Anagarika Munindra, and Ajahn Chah ( Thai Forest Tradition ), as well as nonsectarian derivatives from those traditions such as the movement led by S. N. Goenka ( with his co-teacher wife Illaichi Devi ) who studied with teacher Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

This Center is in a Buddhist Ashram ( Bodh Ashram ), originally the estate of Evans-Wentz, then of Lama Anagarika Govinda, then of a Tibetan-Ladakhi family.

Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera, Don Carolis Hewavitharana ( father of Anagarika Dharmapala ), Andiris Perera Dharmagunawardhana ( maternal grandfather of Anagarika Dharmapala ), William de Abrew, Charles A. de Silva, Peter de Abrew, H. William Fernando, N. S. Fernando and Carolis Pujitha Gunawardena ( secretary ).

Mahabodhi's first head monk under the management committee was Anagarika Munindra, a Bengali man who had been an active member of the Maha Bodhi Society.

David C. Lane is a liberal arts Professor and researcher who, along with others, uncovered evidence that Twitchell plagiarized much of his work from the writings of Julian Johnson, Sant Kirpal Singh, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Walter Russell, L. Ron Hubbard, Helena Blavatsky, and others.

He also studied Vipassana in the 1970s, with S. N. Goenka and Anagarika Munindra, of the Theravadin tradition.

Anagarika Munindra studied with both S. N.

Soon enough he was appointed to the position of steward, or abbot, at the venerable Buddhist college Vikramasila, established by the King Dharmapala of Bengal.

It was at this time that he changed his name to Dharmapala ( meaning " Guardian of the Dharma ").

Due to the efforts of Dharmapala, the site of the Buddha's parinibbana ( physical death ) at Kushinagar has once again become a major attraction for Buddhists, as it was for many centuries previously.

In 1893 Dharmapala was invited to attend the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago as a representative of " Southern Buddhism "-which was the term applied at that time to the Theravada.

" Dharmapala at Chicago: Mahayana Buddhist or Sinhala Chauvinist?

was established by King Dharmapala ( 783 to 820 ) in response to a supposed decline in the quality of scholarship at Nālandā.

Vikramaśīla University, another important center of Buddhist learning in India, was established by King Dharmapala ( 783 to 820 ) in response to a supposed decline in the quality of scholarship at Nālandā.

In 1557, Dharmapala, who was king at Kotte, near Colombo, and had suzerainty over Kandy and Jaffna ( the other two kingdoms ) was baptized Dom João Dharmapala breaking a 1, 850 year-old tradition as a Christian King sat on the Sinhalese throne.

The greatest of the Pala kings, Dharmapala had his capital at Kamarupanagara, now identified with North Guwahati.