I met Venerable Professor Kotapitiye Rahula Thera at the comfortable Buddha-Dharma Centre of Hong Kong, in Wan Chai. He fills many posts, including that of director of the Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the University of Kelaniya, one of Sri Lanka’s most renowned institutions for Buddhist scholarship. For more than a decade, the Centre of Buddhist Studies (CBS) at The University of Hong Kong was the sole provider of a Masters degree in Buddhist Studies in the city. That monopoly has now ended, with the Buddha-Dharma Centre also offering an MA conferred by Kelaniya University.
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