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Most Venerable Bhante Gyanananda Mahathero (Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero) is the founder of the Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastic Order. He was born in Sri Lanka in 1961. At the age of seventeen, he was ordained at Seruwila Mangala Raja Maha Vihara under the preceptorship of the Most Venerable Dambagasare Sumedhankara Mahā Thera, who was the Chief of the Sri Kalyaniwansa Nikāya and the Abbot of Seruwila Mangala Raja Maha Vihara at the time. After a traditional Sri Lankan monastic education, while studying for the Sinhala Honors Degree at Sri Jayawardhanapura University, he had the rare and unexpected opportunity to read the Buddha's discourses in the Pāli Canon, and as a result he abandoned temple life and began to frequent forest monasteries and hermitages, offering his life to the Dhamma with a great desire to practice it. Thereafter, having acquired a profound knowledge of the Dhamma by studying the Pāli Canon for a further ten years, Bhante Gyanananda Mahathero accumulated manifold experiences in life while living in the Himalayas in India and the jungles of Sri Pada in Sri Lanka. Bhante Gyanananda, by utilizing his experience gained over the course of many years in monastic life, began Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery in August 1999. While teaching the Dhamma and conducting Dhamma programs throughout various parts of Sri Lanka, he kindled in the people enormous faith in the Buddha's Dispensation. Bhante Gyanananda Mahathero has authored over 300 books in Sinhala and several more in English and Hindi on the Buddha's Teachings as recorded in the Pāli Canon, thus revealing the sacred word of the Buddha to the public. Those Dhamma books, along with DVDs containing his inspiring Dhamma talks and vandana verses, which explain the Buddha's discourses in simple Sinhala language, have elicited much praise from the people. Moreover, Bhante Gyanananda's translation of the Sutta Piṭaka into simple Sinhala language, helping it to be read and understood by people from any walk of life, is an unparalleled service to the Buddha's Dispensation-undertaken by the Venerable Thera out of compassion for the world. Teaching the Dhamma devoid of capricious personal opinions, by revealing only the pure word of the Buddha, is the unique quality of the Most Venerable Bhante Gyanananda's outstanding Dhamma service.

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