Oskar Frankfurter

“ At that time there were no priests in Ceylon. The King therefore deputed the Councillor Sri Vaddhana as an Ambassador with a second and third ambassador as bearers of a Royal autograph, and presents of which the principal ones were relics of the Buddha. They came in a Dutch merchant ship to establish relations of friendship with Siam, and requested that priests should be sent to initiate persons into the priesthood so that the Buddhist Doctrine might continue in Ceylon. ”

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