Mapitigama Buddharakkitha (1921−1967) was the chief conspirator of the assassination of fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) S. W. R. D....

1936.[citation needed] Allegedly drafted into the conspiracy by Mapitigama Buddharakkitha Thero, the chief incumbent of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara, Somarama...

were made in connection with the assassination. The arrest of Mapitigama Buddharakkitha Thero, the chief priest of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara, put...

most skilled surgeons. A Supreme Court trial found Somarama, Mapitigama Buddharakkitha, H.P. Jayewardena guilty and pronounced on all three of them the...

Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama (he was backed by another monk, Mapitigama Buddharakkitha) in 1959. The assassination was caused by Bandaranaike's attempts...

by, according to Dr. N. M. Perera, allowing the Buddhist monk Mapitigama Buddharakkitha, a member of the Bandaranaike government and a leader of the Eksath...

Sugar Cooperation, preventing these going to companies created by Mapitigama Buddharakkitha Thero and his associate H. P. Jayawardene. This was found to be...

the Buddhist prelate Mapitigama Buddharakkitha, who along with Talpawila Seelawansa were also its joint secretaries. Buddharakkitha and Seelawansa were...

later became the chief incumbent after the demise of his predecessor Mapitigama Buddharakkita. In 1952, she contested the seat of Kelaniya at the 2nd...