Buddhist Cultural Centre

Buddhist Cultural centre (BCC) in Sri Lanka was founded by Ven.Kirama Wimalajhoti Thera who had returned to Sri Lanka after twenty years of dedicated missionary activity in Malaysia, Singapore and USA. It was inaugurated on January 2nd 1992 under the auspices of Ven.Dr.K.Sri Dhammananda Thera, the chief prelate of Malaysia and Singapore and a plethora of other internationally famed Buddhist scholar monks of the time. It sought to fill a lacuna of the devoted Buddhists in Sri Lanka and the rest of the world. What made Ven.Wimalajhoti thera start the BCC was the dearth of Buddhist publications in Sri Lanka notwithstanding its reputation as a country where Buddhism prevails in its pristine form. This fact was pointed to Ven.Wimalajhoti thera by some of his foreign neophytes who had arrived in Sri Lanka to learn Buddhism when they had strolled quite unsuccessfully all over the outskirts of Colombo along with him in search of some Buddhist publications.