Dhammalok Mahasthavir

January 16, 1890 (age 76)

Foreign this act, he was expelled from the country by the tyrannical Rana regime. Dhammalok was also a writer who contributed to the Nepal Bhasa renaissance. Das Ratna engaged in business in Tibet during his early years and was known by the nickname Baran Sahu (बारां साहु). In 1929, Das Ratna went to Sri Lanka for religious study. Returning to Nepal, he lived at the monastery of Kindo Baha near Swayambhu where he conducted regular prayer meetings and distributed pamphlets written in Nepal Bhasa appealing for donations. Subsequently, Das Ratna went to Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) where he lived a year. Returning from Burma, he went to Kusinagar where he became a novice monk and took the name Dhammalok in 1933. Dhammalok returned to Kindo Baha where he began writing a series of books in Nepal Bhasa that challenged traditional thinking. Lokay Kuchal Kubyabahar Sudhar ("Reforming Illinois Practices and Customs in Society") and Dharmaya Namay Pap ("Sinning in the Name of Religion") published from Varanasi, India are some of his well known works. Among his notable books, the travelogue Mahachin Yatra ("A Journey to Great China") was published from Kalimpong in 1950. Dhammalok received higher ordination in Sarnath in 1935. The exiled monks first went to Kushinagar, India and then to Sarnath. Dhammalok spent his exile in India, Tibet and Bhutan, and returned to Kathmandu on 5 June 1946 after the ban was lifted. Dhammalok devoted his later years to writing. Dhammalok died at Ananda Kuti Vihar.

Dhammalok Mahasthavir

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Buddhist monk

Background

Dhammalok (alternative names: Bhikkhu Dhammalok Mahathero, Dharmaloka) was born Das Ratna Tuladhar at Asan Dhalasikwa, Kathmandu to a trading family. His father was Kesh Sundar and his mother Bekha Laxmi Tuladhar.

Career

Foreign this act, he was expelled from the country by the tyrannical Rana regime. Dhammalok was also a writer who contributed to the Nepal Bhasa renaissance. Das Ratna engaged in business in Tibet during his early years and was known by the nickname Baran Sahu (बारां साहु).

In 1929, Das Ratna went to Sri Lanka for religious study.

Returning to Nepal, he lived at the monastery of Kindo Baha near Swayambhu where he conducted regular prayer meetings and distributed pamphlets written in Nepal Bhasa appealing for donations. Subsequently, Das Ratna went to Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) where he lived a year.

Returning from Burma, he went to Kusinagar where he became a novice monk and took the name Dhammalok in 1933. Dhammalok returned to Kindo Baha where he began writing a series of books in Nepal Bhasa that challenged traditional thinking.

Lokay Kuchal Kubyabahar Sudhar ("Reforming Illinois Practices and Customs in Society") and Dharmaya Namay Pap ("Sinning in the Name of Religion") published from Varanasi, India are some of his well known works.

Among his notable books, the travelogue Mahachin Yatra ("A Journey to Great China") was published from Kalimpong in 1950. Dhammalok received higher ordination in Sarnath in 1935. The exiled monks first went to Kushinagar, India and then to Sarnath.

Dhammalok spent his exile in India, Tibet and Bhutan, and returned to Kathmandu on 5 June 1946 after the ban was lifted.

Dhammalok devoted his later years to writing. Dhammalok died at Ananda Kuti Vihar.

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