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Matara Kitalagama Siri Seelalankara Nayaka Thero The First Chief Incumbent of Dimbulagala Forest Monastery.

Matara, Kitalagama, Dalugoda Hene Gedera Hevadulige Liyonis, was the father of Sri Seelalankara Nayaka Thero and Sainahami Gallage was the mother. On May 26, 1924, who was born with the name of Charlis, received his basic education from Kitalagama Nagarukkharama public school and later improved his morals by listening to the teachings of Most Venerable Kitalagama Pannajothi the head of Gangodawila Pannodayaramaya. H.D. Charlis because of his desire to become a monk, went to Most Venerable Udupillegoda Pannalankara Nahimi, who worked as the chief incumbent of Matara Akuresssa Wilpita Forest Monastery, and was ordained as Kitalagama Seelalankara as his student. Reverend Seelalankara Thero, who was ordained at Badulla Sri Pannalankara Viharaya on 12th January 1954 and returned to Polonnaruwa, built the Manampitiya Sri Bodhirukkaramaya and since then Nayaka Thero who has been engaged in various religious and national activities in the year 1965. Nayaka Thero leading task force The congregation received Upasampada at the Maharagama Sri Pannananda Piriwen Temple. Later, Matara Kitalagama Sri Seelalankara Nayaka Thero who visited the historic Dimbulagala Forest Monastery together with the existing government built the Maduru Oya Reservoir and provided the opportunity for 25,000 farming families to cultivate rice in Yala and Maha Seasons. During the 1978 cyclone, Dimbulagala Nayaka Thero, also known as Matara Kitalagama Siri Seelalankara Thero, broke down the Manampitiya Cooperative and provided dry ration aid to the refugees in the area, as well as to those affected by floods and cyclones.
They pioneered the construction of schools, temples and villages, creating five Pirivenas affiliated to the Dimbulagala Forest Monastery and nearly 115 Buddhist temples. At a time when he was doing a great service to the country, nation, and religion, on May 26, 1995, Nayaka Thero died in a terrorist attack at 7 in the morning while traveling in a cab with Mr. Anton and Mr. Bauddhasara to the farm of Dimbulagala Forest Monastery located in Manikeela area.

A little bit of information about the Maldeniye Jinalankara Nayaka Thero the second chief incumbent of Dimbulagala Forest Monastery who was also known as the carving monk..

The parents of the venerable Jinalankara Nayaka Thero, who was born on the fifth day of Vesak in 1933 in the beautiful village of Maldeniya in Kotmale, Nuwara Eliya District, are Pihille Gedara Mudalihami and Rathgahagoda Rammanike. He was Born as the fifth in a family of ten siblings. At the age of 29, he came to the historical Dimbulagala Forest Monastery and was ordained in the shadow of the leader of the time, Asarana Sarana Matara Kitalagama Seelalankara Nahimi. He was Born as Pihille Gedara Ukkubanda and was named Maldeniye Jinalankara after his ordination. He entered the monastic life on 02 October 1969 and got high ordination on 01 July 1970 at the Matara Gangarama Seminary under the tutelage of Madihe Pannaseeha Mahanayake Thero, the supreme leader of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Maha Sangha Sabha and the tutelage of Sri Seelalankara prelates. Since then, he worked to build the historical Dimbulagala ForestMonastery, to raise the generation of Dimbulagala monks, and worked shoulder-to-shoulder to produce about 1200 monks to the Dimbulagala generation. He never watched TV until his death. After the construction of the Dimbulagala Sky Palace ,known as Ahas Maligawa, the names of Rev. Vishwakarma and Rev. Engineer were attached to him, and many beautiful wooden Buddha statues were completed by his hands, pouring sweat day and night. Thus Maldeniye Jinalankara Nayaka Thero, who performed a great service to the country, nation, religion, and Sambuddha Sasana, passed away on June 11, 2015 after enjoying eighty-seven years of life.

a split bit of information about Millane Siriyalankara Nayaka Thero the third chief incumbent of historical Dimbulagala Forest Monastery..

Handage Yapa or Millana is the father of this young prince who was born on June 1, 1958 as Handage Mudiyanse. K. Manikhami was his mother. Handage Mudiyanse, the second in a family of two brothers and three sisters, settled in the Dimbulagala Forest Monastery under Matara Kitalagama Sri Seelalankara Nahimi on Poson Poya day in 1965, that is at the age of eight. In the year 1979, Millane Siriyalankara Nayaka Thero got his high ordination in the historical Dimbulagala Forest Monastery, visited the historical Namalpokuna Rajamaha Viharaya in 1982. At that time, Dalukana, Millana, who was the tribal leader in charge of the area, Ratnayaka, the son of the Millana tribal leader, the present Millane Siriyalankara Nahimi, is the first ordained monk of the tribal leader family. On June 11, 2015, with the passing away of Maldeniye Jinalankara Nayaka Thero, Millane Siriyalankara Nayaka Thero assumed the historic position of the chief incumbent of Dimbulagala Forest Monastery on June 18, 2015. Maha Nayaka Thero of Amarapura Dharmarakshita Maha Nikaya, Dharmarakshita Vamshalankara Upadhyaya Dharmakirthi, Sri Royal Pandita, Most Reverend Thirikunamale Ananda Nayaka Thero, appointed him to the position of Chief Incumbent. He has studied up to 2nd Grade at Dimbulagala Rohana Vidyalaya or Kotaragala Vidyalaya. As a tribal of the historical Dimbulagala Forest Monastery, it is also unique that he became the chief incumbent of Dimbulagala Forest Monastery for the first time.

A little bit of information about Chetiyalankara Nayaka Thero, the fourth chief incumbent of the historical Dimbulagala Forest Monastery..

U.D. Jayantha Kumara was born on 14th May 1956 at Polalonnaruwa General Hospital. Jayantha Kumara’s father was Mr. Don Uyanage Jay De Silva, K.H. Jasalin was his mother. U.D Jayantha Kumara the fifth in the family of four brothers and three sisters, was ordained as Sinhapura Chetiyalankara at the historical Dimbulagala Forest Monastery in June 1965 by the Matara Kitalagama Seelalankara Nahimi. Before becoming a monk, he worked as the preceptor of Seelalankara Nayaka Thero for four years. Sinhapura Chethiyalankara Thero got the high ordination at the Dimbulagala Transplant Circuit on Poson Full Moon Day in 1982. Chetiyalankara Nahimi, in 1988, became the Parivenadhipathi of Maha Kashyapa Maha Pirivena. On January 01, 1990, he worked as a teacher consultant on Buddha Dharma at Millana Primary School and in 1992 as a teacher consultant on Buddha Dharma subject at Dimbulagala Maha Kashyapa Vidyalaya. In the year 1993, Sinhapura Chetiyalankara Thero, who became the principal of Millana Primary School, has worked as a teacher consultant on the subject of Buddha Dharma in Polonnaruwa Thopawewa Maha Vidyalaya and then as the principal of Dimbulagala Maha Kashyapa Maha Vidyalaya.

A little bit of Information about Dimbulagala Rahulalankara Nahimi the fifth and the present chief incumbent of the historical Dimbulagala Forest Monastery.

On 27th February 1967 J. M. Wijeratne was born in Polonnaruwa Palugasdamana village. The father of this caste prince who was born as Wijeratna Banda was J. M. Herath Banda and H.M. Biso Manike was his mother. Rahulalankara Thero who was ordained on January 09, 1982 by the Matara Kitalagama Sri Seelalankara Nayaka Thero, who worked as the chief incumbent of the historic Dimbulagala Forest Monastery, then he received his Upasampada on the Poson Full moon day in June 1987 at the Maharagama Vajiragnana Piriven Institute in Colombo. In the year 1991, Dimbulagala Rahulalankara Thero, who took over as the head of Welikanda, Susirigama Sri Sudarshanarama Viharaya, has since then held the position of registrar of the Welikanda Shasanarakshaka Balamandalaya and the Polonnaruwa District Shasanarakshaka Balamandalaya and engaged in religious, social and national missions in the district. While carrying out a great mission in these positions, Dimbulagala Rahulalankara Nahimi, who goes beyond the district and takes the lead in solving the various problems of the farmers in the province, is a leader who has many programs to awaken the country’s authorities in the paddy problem and fertilizer problems of the farmers. In 2020, when journalists were not allowed to enter the Sharia University in Batticaloa, he went down to the occasion and became the first monk to enter the Sharia University with journalists. Then, by the Mahanayake of Amarapura Dharmarakshita Maha Nikaya, Most Venerable Thirukunamale Ananda Mahanayaka Thero appointed Reverend Rahulalankara Thero as the registrar of Buddha Shravaka Sangha Sabha of Dimbulagala Forest Monastery, and did a great work while sitting in that position. Amarapura Dharmarakshita Maha Nikaya Karaka Sangha member, Dimbulagala Rahulalankara Nayaka Thero, who held the position of Chief Judicial Sanghanayake of the North Central Province, was appointed to the post of Dimbulagala Chief Incumbent on 27th September 2023 by the Mahanayake of Amarapura Dharmarakshita Maha Nikaya, Most Venerable Thirukunamale Ananda Mahanayake Thero. Dimbulagala Rahulalankara Nayaka Thero officially assumed office on 5th October 2023 as the chief incumbent of Dimbulagala Forest Monastery, and on 13th of October 2023, the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Mr. Roshan Ranasinghe and other government officials presided over the ceremony of presenting him with credentials.