Sri Sambuddha Mission Charitable Trust

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Founded by Venerable Bambalapitiye Gnanaloka Thero Established in 2017 | Deed of Trust No. 95 | Early Life Born in Sri Lanka in 1971, Shanaka Dharmakeerti spent his formative years in Lesotho, South Africa. As a teenager, he developed a profound curiosity about the universe, delving into astrophysics and exploring religious texts such as the Bible, the Quran, and the Bhagavad Gita. At the age of 18, during a solitary walk along South Africa’s Caledon River, he experienced a spontaneous insight into impermanence—a realization that would later align seamlessly with the Buddha’s teachings. Academic Path and Turning Point Having once dreamt of studying at Princeton University—where his role model Albert Einstein had lectured—Shanaka’s early ambition of becoming an astrophysicist gradually

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