Dr. Buddhadasa Bodhinayake has been a household name all over Sri Lanka. Hailing from a suburban Sinhala family background in Bentota and guided by his father, a Head Master of a Sinhala School, he has blossomed as an outstanding personality from his student days at the Ananda College to become a man of the world. It would not be a false statement to say that any newspaper or magazine column is insufficient to record the versatility and enormity of this Sri Lankan's accomplishments.