The Venerable Narada Maha Thera born as Sumanapala Perera (July 14, 1898–October 2, 1983) was a Buddhist monk and translator within the Theravada tradition, and the head of the Vajirarama Temple in Colombo. He was popular in his home country of Sri Lanka, as well as abroad.
In 1929 he represented Sri Lanka in the opening ceremony for the new Mulagandhakuti Vihara Monastery in Sarnath, India, and in 1934 he visited Indonesia as the first Theravada monk for 450 years. From then on he traveled to many different countries for missionary work, including Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Nepal, and Australia. In 1956 he visited Great Britain and the United States and addressed a large crowd at the Washington Monument. He contributed to the bana-style of Dhamma teachings in the 1960s and brought the Buddha’s teachings “to the daily lives of the Western middle class in Sri Lanka.”
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