Nā-Uyana Principal Teacher Venerable Meegoda SaṅghaSobhana Mahāthera

The Most Ven. Meegoda Saṅghasobhana Mahāthera the magnanimous principal teacher of Nā-Uyana Forest Monastery, is the most senior Mahāthero residing there shouldering a considerable burden of some of the key responsibilities while playing a magnificent role inside the monastery and to the Sāsana alike.

He resides there in the monastery making a lofty example of himself to the later generations of bhikkhus and engages in the genuine dhamma practice following the age-old idealistic path that his ācariyas and upajjācariyas (teachers and preceptors) have well-trodden.

He was born on the 28th of December, 1933 to a good family and was educated in English medium at a leading school at that time.

He was ordained by the Most Ven. Kadawedduwe Sri Jinawaṁsa Mahāthero as to be one of his students on the 17th of June, 1981 at Galdoova Sri Gunawardhana Hermitage – Ambalangoda. He received his Higher Ordination on the 18th of June, 1982 at the Modara Udakuḳḳhēpa Sīma Pavilion at Kosgodadoova under the preceptorship of Most Ven. Kadawedduwe Sri Jinawaṁsa Mahāthero.

Our Mahāthero fulfilled learning all the primary dhamma studies and the training of Samatha & Vipassanā meditations living under the Most Ven. Matara Sri Ñāṇārāma Mahāthero – the great preceptor and the co-founder of the Association of Sri Kalyāni Hermitages. Working with perseverance and exhibiting most encouraging manner of living an authentic bhikkhu life mentioned in the Canon, he, at present, resides as the principal of the monastery. Not only does he work as an office-bearer of the General Saṅgha Community of Sri Gunawardhana monastery – Galdoova but also he is a Kammācariya there. Older in Sīla, in asceticism, in virtue and in age, the Mahāthero resides there giving enormous energy and making a living example of himself to the Nā-Uyana Saṅgha while being committed to energizing the longstanding of the Buddhist Dispensation in his scope.