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Bodagama Chandima was born on 3 February 1957 at Thanamalwila in southern Sri Lanka. he taught Theravada Buddhism in Taiwan. With a group of Taiwanese Buddhists, he founded the Theravada Samadhi Education Association in Taipei. he was the Chief Sangha Nayaka in Taiwan for Sri Lanka and also the Advisor of International Religious and Cultural Affairs to the President of Sri Lanka. ==Early life and education== Chandima was born in 1957 in Thanamalwila, a remote village of southern Sri Lanka. In 1970, at the age of thirteen, he was ordained as a novice monk (Pali:''saamanera'') by Dodampahala Sri Rathanajoti, the chief sangha nayaka of southern Sri Lanka and Atthudawe Gnanananda, the abbot of the Ratmalana Sri Vijayarama temple. In 1980, Chandima received higher ordination (Pali: ''bhikkhu upasampada'') from the noble committee of Malwattha Sangha Community. He attended the Mantinda Pirivena monastery in Matara to receive primary education and then moved to Subhararama Pirivena in Nugegoda for secondary education. In 1982, entered Buddhasravaka Bhiksu University in Anuradhapura and obtained the Thripitakavedi Degree having completed the five year programme devised to master in Pali, Sanskrit, English, Sinhala, Hindi, Buddhist Philosophy and Culture, Abhidharma, and Logic. Chandima was awarded an honorary Doctor of philosophy degree by the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka in 2003 for propagation of Theravada Buddhism in foreign countries and understanding of Buddhist philosophy and related areas, He is fluent in the Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, English and Chinese languages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bodagama Chandima」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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