Rajaguru Sri Subhuthi Viharaya (Waskaduwa)

Rajaguru Sri Subhuthi Maha Viharaya (Sinhala: වස්කඩුව රාජගුරු ශ්‍රී සුභූති විහාරය) is a Buddhist temple situated in Waskaduwa in Kalutara District, Sri Lanka. History This is the temple where the renowned Pali scholar-monk Rajaguru Sri Subhuthi Thera (1835-1917 A.D.) resided. He was cited often in the works of the 19th century European and American scholars of Buddhism, such as Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893 A.D.), Robert Caesar Childers (1838-1876 A.D.), and Michael Viggo Fausböll [(1821-1908 A.D.) Mukherjee, 2018]. In recognition of Subhuthi Thera's scholarship and his participation in Orientalist research, bureaucrats in British India once presented him a fragment of an alms bowl believed to have belonged to the Buddha himself, which had been discovered from the ruins of a Stupa at Nala Sopara in Maharashtra by the Indian archaeologist Bhagwan Lal Indraji [(1839-1888 A.D.) Mukherjee, 2018]. He also received some relics of the Buddha discovered from the excavation works carried …