 The founder-Preceptor, a reputed German Professor who had been ordained in Burma, attracted many scholars and thinkers from all parts of the world, to name a few, from Germany, France, Holland, Yugoslavia, England and the United States of America in the West to the Far East and went on to play a prominent role in the revitalisation of Buddhism in the world.Sir Ernest was thus instrumental in putting Ceylon on the map of the world of philosophy and religion.When a great disciple of the German monk, Ven.