Rev Dr Adam Clarke papers on Adam Sree Goona Munhi Rathana and Alexander Dherma Rama

Principally comprising papers relating to two Buddhist priests from Sri Lanka who converted to Methodism.


Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Ceylon/FBN 23
Date(s) of creation: 1819-1931
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Clarke; Adam (1760-1832); minister, theologian, social campaigner, scholar, linguist
Other authors: Rathana; Adam Sree Goona Munhi (fl 1794-1821); Buddhist priest; Christian convert; colonial administrator; linguist, Rama; Alexander Dherma (fl 1794-1820); Buddhist priest; Christian convert; linguist

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Ceylon/FBN 23
Summary: Principally comprising papers relating to two Buddhist priests from Sri Lanka who converted to Methodism.
Main author: Clarke; Adam (1760-1832); minister, theologian, social campaigner, scholar, linguist
Other authors: Rathana; Adam Sree Goona Munhi (fl 1794-1821); Buddhist priest; Christian convert; colonial administrator; linguist, Rama; Alexander Dherma (fl 1794-1820); Buddhist priest; Christian convert; linguist
Extent: 16 items
Admin history: The following has been copied, with only minor alteration, from the entry for Clarke in the Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland (http://wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk/dmbi/). Permission to use and alter said entry was kindly granted by Dr John Vickers and the Rev Dr Norman W Taggart. WM minister and polymath. He was born at Moybeg, Co. Londonderry in 1760 (or, according to his father, 1762), the son of a schoolmaster. He came under Methodist influence in 1778, travelled to England in 1782, met John Wesley in Bristol and was sent int ... View more
Custodial history: Received by the WMMS from Dr Ritson (via E S Lamplough), summer 1931
Access status: Open
Access conditions: Only to be viewed on microfiche
Language: English
Related material: About a dozen letters by Rev Dr Adam Clarke regarding the two Buddhist Sri Lankan priest converts (including at least one letter forwarded from them) are amongst the Home correspondence within the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society (MMS/Home/Correspondence/FBN 1-2). An additional image of Clarke can be found within MMS/Ceylon/Photographs/Box 1196a (file 7). Wesleyan Missionary Notices (1818-1820) has communications by Clarke on two Buddhist Sri Lankan priest converts and also an account of their baptism. John Rylands Library University of ... View more
Format: Archive