Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa
The Island Hermitage is a forest monastery on a small island in a lagoon at Dodanduwa, in the Galle district of southern Sri Lanka. It was established in 1911 for the German-born monk Nyanatiloka Mahāthera, one of the first Europeans to be ordained as a Theravāda bhikkhu, and became an early centre for Western monastics.
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1907
The Word of the Buddha: An Outline of the Teaching of the Buddha in the Words of the Pali Canon
- 1952
Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines