Long Island Buddhist Meditation Center
Venerable Kottawe Nanda, the resident monk of the center was born in Sri Lanka in 1966. Ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1977 he received his higher ordination in 1985. Ven. Nanda had his primary education at the Sri Gnanananda Vanavasa Buddhist Institute, Wathurawila, Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1983 under the most Venerable Wathurawila Sri Gnanananda, the Maha Nayake Thero of the Syamopali Vanavasa Nikaya (Forest-dwelling-sect).
