ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The Ven. Maháthera Nárada was born in 1898 in a suburb of Colombo,
Sri Lanka, and was educated in schools run by Christian missionaries.
At the age of eighteen he was ordained as a novice under Ven. Pelene
Vajirañáóa Mahánayaka Thera, and at twenty he received the higher
ordination. During his sixty-five years in the Sangha, the Ven. Nárada
distinguished himself by his piety, his disciplined conduct, and his work
in propagating the Dhamma both in Sri Lanka and abroad. After a
period of declining health, the Ven. Nárada passed away in Colombo in
late 1983.