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Anagarika Dharmapala

1864 - 1933

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Anagārika Dharmapāla (Pali: Anagārika, [ɐˈnɐɡaːɽɪkɐ]; Sinhala: Anagārika, lit., Sinhala: අනගාරික ධර්‍මපාල; 17 September 1864 – 29 April 1933) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and a writer. Anagarika Dharmapāla is noted because he was: the first global Buddhist missionary one of the founding contributors of non-violent Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism a leading figure in the Sri Lankan independence movement against British rule a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct for several centuries the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dhamma in three continents: Asia, North America, and Europe. kept a close and cordial relationship with Ven. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anagarika Dharmapala has received more than 573,720 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Anagarika Dharmapala is the 1,658th most popular writer (down from 1,501st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the most popular Sri Lankan Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 1,658 out of 7,302. Before him are Li He, Liu Zongyuan, Christy Brown, Meleager of Gadara, Alma Karlin, and Ba Jin. After him are Algernon Charles Swinburne, Egon Kisch, Joseph Needham, Nina Berberova, Walafrid Strabo, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 54. Before him are Roman Dmowski, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Robert E. Park, Infanta Eulalia of Spain, Peter Deunov, and Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia. After him are Henri de Régnier, Arthur Zimmermann, Mizzi Kaspar, Hermann Weingärtner, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, and Soh Jaipil. Among people deceased in 1933, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 35. Before him are Francesc Macià, Hans Vaihinger, Henry Royce, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Raymond Roussel, and Anna de Noailles. After him are Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Mary Parker Follett, Carl Correns, Haim Arlosoroff, Nitobe Inazō, and Friedrich Zander.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 5 out of 51. Before him are Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877), and Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949). After him are William Chester Minor (1834), Tony Hoare (1934), Aryadeva (200), St John Philby (1885), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), and Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Sri Lanka

Among writers born in Sri Lanka, Anagarika Dharmapala ranks 1. After him are Aryadeva (200), Michael Ondaatje (1943), and Shehan Karunatilaka (1975).

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