Damrivi Foundation

About us Our Vision Mental transformation through Buddhist insights for enriching the lives of individuals and society. Our Background Legal Status Trustees Counselors and Staff Our Mision Engage in activities and programmes to nurture attitudes, values and ideas of people ensuring spiritual, psychological, social, and economic wellbeing, social justice and equality, ultimately to diminish suffering of all beings. Background The Damrivi Foundation was set up in 2003 by a group of academics and professionals to establish a forum for social action guided by Buddhist insights and philosophy. The founders were inspired by the conviction that Buddhism provides a philosophy and a way of life promoting welfare of humankind and its harmony with environment. Asanga Tilakaratne Founder Chairman of Damrivi Foundation Prof. Asanga Tilakaratne, Founder Chairman of Damrivi Foundation, is presently the Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree (Hons.) in Buddhist Philosophy with a First Class Pass, from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. 1982. Having won a prestigious Fellowship awarded by East West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA for outstanding graduate students from Asia and Pacific in 1984, he pursued his M.A. in Western Philosophy and Ph. D in Comparative Philosophy at University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA. He is also a recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship where he carried out his academic work at Oxford University and Visiting Scholar at Wolfsan College: October 1999- September 2000. He is internationally recognized, acknowledged Buddhist scholar with an outstanding research career.