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Ananda College (Sinhala: ආනන්ද විද්යාලය), Colombo, was established on November 1, 1886, by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott. Ananda College is a National School, which provides primary and secondary education.
leading public school in Sri Lanka.The school has a student population exceeding 8,000 across 13 grades from primary to secondary classes. The campus resides in a 20 acres (81,000 m2) land in Maradana. The academic staff of more than 250 is led by Principal L.M.D. Dharmasena. Ananda has produced notable alumni, including statesmen such as Former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake and United National Party deputy leader Karu Jayasuriya, and cricketers Arjuna Ranatunga, Marvan Atapattu and Thilan Samaraweera. Ananda College has been awarded the Best school in sports award many times including 2010.
1881 January 1: The inheritance of the Sinhalese Buddhist "Sarasavi Sandaresa"
1881 February 8: The arrival of Col. Olcott at Dharmopakari Society Maradana Colombo.
Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council. For that, he was known as the Guardian of the Dharma.
According to the Buddha every Buddha in the past and to come will have two chief disciples and one attendant during his ministry. In the case of Gautama Buddha the pair of disciples were Sariputta and Mahamoggallana and the attendant Ānanda.
The word 'Ānanda' means 'bliss' in Pali, Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages. It is a popular Buddhist and Hindu name, but popular also among Muslims in Indonesia.
In the Kannakatthala Sutta (MN 90), Ananda is identified with the meaning of his name:
Ānanda was the first cousin of the Buddha by their fathers, and was devoted to him. In the twentieth year of the Buddha's ministry, he became the Buddha's personal attendant, accompanying him on most of his wanderings and taking the part of interlocutor in many of the recorded dialogues. He is the subject of a special panegyric delivered by the Buddha just before the Buddha's Parinibbana (the Mahaparinibbana Sutta (DN 16)); it is a panegyric for a man who is kindly, unselfish, popular, and thoughtful toward others.
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