Office Address	Department of Classical Languages Faculty of Arts University of Peradeniya Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka.
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Educational & Professional Qualifications

BA in Sanskrit (Ceylon) 1955 MA in Vedic and Classical Sanskrit (Ceylon) 1957 MA in Oriental Studies (Cantab) 1959 PhD in Oriental Studies (Cantab) 1962

Positions Held (selected)

Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Classical Languages (1998 - Present) Researcher, Orientabteilung, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin - Supported by the Foreign Department, Freie Universitat, Berlin (1990 June - August) Researcher at the M.E.Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library in Leningrad as an invitee of the Academy of Sciences attached to the Institute of Oriental Studies and Visiting Professor, Department of Indian Languages, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Leningrad (1989 - 1990 May) Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (1982 July - August) Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Classical Languages  (1982 - 1998) Fulbright Visiting Scholar affiliated to the Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions located at the Melville Memorial Library, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1981 Oct. - 1982 June) Senior Professor, University of Peradeniya (1992) Associate Professor, Department of Classical Languages (1980) Senior Lecturer, Department of Sanskrit (1969)

Awards & Recognitions (selected)

Rapson Scholarship - University of Cambridge, UK (1959, 1960) Brotherton Prize for Sanskrit - University of Cambridge, UK (1959) Bhaonagar Medal for Indian Studies - University of Cambridge, UK (1959) Thomas Young Medal for Indian Archaeology - University of Cambridge, UK (1959) Emily Rigby Scholarship - Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK (1959) Marion Kennedy Studentship - Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK (1960) Dr. C.A.Hewavitarana Prize for Sanskrit - University of Ceylon, Sri Lanka (1955) Research Scholarship of the Faculty of Oriental Studies - University of Ceylon, Sri Lanka (Extended for the session 1956/57) Government University Scholarship, University of Ceylon, Sri Lanka (1955) Muncherji Framji Khan Prize in Arts - University of Ceylon, Sri Lanka (1952) Mudaliyar Waidyasekera Prize for Pali - University of Ceylon, Sri Lanka (1952) Murugesar Tambyah Memorial Prize in Sanskrit - University of Ceylon, Sri Lanka (1952)

Recent Research Publications (selected)

Vasudhārādhāraṇī (kathā). Pages 53 – 64 in. Buddhist and Pali Studies in honour of The Venerable Professor Kakkapalliye Anuruddha. Editors. Professor K.L. Dhammajoti. Professor Y. Karunadasa. Centre of Buddhist Studies. The University of Hong Kong. 2009.. The Legend of Viśvantara – An Unpublished Version. Pages 211 – 230 in Philologos. Essays presented in felicitation of Merlin Peris. Emeritus Professor of Western Classics University of Peradeniya. Edited by Chandima S.M. Wickramasinghe, Colombo. Sri Lanka. Godage International Publishers (Pvt.) Ltd. 2008. The Buddhist Goddess Vasudhārā. Pages 111 – 122 in Dhamma-Vinaya. Essays in honour of Venerable Professor Dhammavihārī (Jotiya Dhirasekera) edited Asanga Tilakaratne et. al. Sri Lanka Association for Buddhist Studies (SLABS) Colombo 2005 Sundry Notes on Fa-hsien. pp. 194-220 in: Symposium on Buddhist Studies. 20th Anniversary Commemoration Volume. Thames Buddhist Vihara. Editor: Ven. Kotapitiye Rahula. Thames Meditation Society. United Kingdom 2003. (Reprint of No. 54 above). Supriyasārthavāhajātakaya. pp. 298-302 in: Buddhist Studies. Essays in honour of Professor Lily de Silva. University of Peradeniya. 2002.  A monograph entitled: Three Sanskrit Texts on Caitya Worship in relation to the Ahoratravrata. An edition and synopses in English (with an Introduction). Studia Philologia Buddhica. Monograph Series XVI. (132 pages preceded by i-xxv). Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies 2000 Orientology in Sri Lanka and its association with Pune. Some Reflections. Emeritus Professor Kailasanatha Kurukkal Commemoration Volume: Kailasanadam. Editor Prof. P. Gopalakrishna Iyer. Jaffna 2000, pp. 56-72. A monograph entitled: Three Sanskrit Texts on Caitya Worship in relation to the Ahoratravrata.  An edition and synopses in English (with an Introduction). Studia Philologia Buddhica.  Monograph  Series XVI. (132 pages preceded by i-xxv). Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies 2000.