Bodu Bala Sena
| බොදු බල සේනා | |
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| Abbreviation | BBS |
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| Formation | 2012 |
| Founder | Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara |
| Type | (Sinhala nationalism) |
| Headquarters | Sri Sambuddha Jayanthi Mandira, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Coordinates | 6°53′45.90″N 79°51′36.20″E / 6.8960833°N 79.8600556°ECoordinates: 6°53′45.90″N 79°51′36.20″E / 6.8960833°N 79.8600556°E |
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Secretary-General
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Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara |
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Chief Executive Officer
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Dilanthe Withanage |
| Website | bodubalasena |
Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) is a Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist organisation based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Key persons in the organisation are Venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara and Dilanthe Withanage. The BBS is a break-away organisation from the right wight ultranationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya organisation.
Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara and Dilanthe Withanage are the General Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of BBS respectively. Its headquarters are located at Sri Sambuddha Jayanthi Mandira in Colombo. Sri Sambuddha Jayanthi Mandira is owned by the Buddhist Cultural Centre, an organisation also founded by former leader Kirama Wimalajothi. The Buddhist Cultural Centre was opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 15 May 2011.
The BBS was founded by monks Kirama Wimalajothi and Galagoda Aththe Gnanasaara after they broke away from Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU). Gnanasara had been one of the JHU candidates in Colombo District at the 2004 parliamentary election.
One of the earliest campaigns by BBS was in respect of Buddhist Sri Lankans working in the Middle East who, according to BBS, were prevented from practising their religion and punished harshly if found to be doing so.
The BBS held its first national convention at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall on 28 July 2012. The convention passed five resolutions which, amongst other things, called for a ban on vasectomy and tubal ligation in government health facilities, replacement of the various legal systems used in the country with a single legal system, preferential treatment in university admission for students who attended Buddhism classes, use of monks in government schools to teach history and other classes, and the avoidance of any race- or religion-based solution for the country's ethnic problems.
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