Kadawedduwe Jinavamsa Mahathera
| Most Ven. Kadawedduwe Jinavaṃsa Maha Thera | |
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| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Theravada |
| Sect |
Ramanna Nikaya Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha |
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| Nationality |
 Sri Lankan
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| Born | Don Dinesh 1 April 1907 Kadawedduwa, Matara |
| Died | 13 July 2003 (aged 96) Galduva Aranya, Kahawa, Ambalangoda |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | Śrī Āryavilāsa Vaṃsālaṇkāra Saddharmavāgīśvarācārya, Mahopādhyāya, Paṭipatti Sobhana Gaṇapāmokkhācariya, Maha Thera |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher | Most venerable kekanadure arya vilasa maha thero |
| Students | Most Ven. Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera |
| Ordination | 1921 |
Most Ven. Kadawedduwe Sri Jinavamsa Maha Thera (Pali: Siri Jinavaṃsa, sometimes spelled Jinawansa, Sinhala: අති පූජ්ය කඩවැද්දූවේ ශ්රී ජිනවංශ මහා ථේර) was a Sri Lankan Bhikkhu (Buddhist monk). He was the founder of Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha, a reform movement within the Sri Lankan Rāmañña Nikāya.
Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera was born Don Dinesh on 1 April 1907 in the Kadawedduwa village in Matara. He was the fourth and youngest child in the family. Don Dinesh had his primary education at the Yatiyana Vernacular School.
When Dinesh was 10 years old, he was invited to stay and attend upon Ven. Kadawedduwe Siri Sugunatissa Mahathera, the elder brother of Dinesh's father and the abbot of Srivardhanaramaya, a temple in Yatawara. There, Dinesh learnt Pali and Sanskrit from the Ven. Kothmale Siri Saddhammavamsa Mahathera. In 1921, at the age of 14, Don Dinesh received Pabbajja with the name Kadawedduwe Jinavamsa, with Ven. Sugunatissa Mahathera as his Upajjhaya. In 1927, at the age of 20, Ven. Jinavamsa received Upasampada, with Ven. Sri Ñāṇindasabha Mahathera as his preceptor.
In 1932, Ven. Jinavamsa founded the Granthakara Pirivena with 5 students. Later it was registered as a grant aided Pirivena under the Government on the recommendation of C. W. W. Kannangara. Ven. Jinavamsa obtained the monastic degree ‘Rajakeeya Panditha’ in 1945, and was awarded honorary membership of the Oriental Languages Society in 1946.
Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera left the Granthakara Pirivena and adopted a life of a forest monk in 1950. He was accompanied by Ven. Gatamanne Vimalavamsa Thera, one of his closest disciples. With the Ven. Matara Sri Nanarama Mahathera as the chief preceptor, Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera founded the Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha on 18 June 1951, and 12 lay aspirants were given the ‘going forth’ in the new organization on this date. The main Ramanna Nikaya gave permission to the Yogasrama Samstha to manage its own administration and conduct its own Upasampada.
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