Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri
Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri (known as Suwanda Sugunasiri) is a Canadian academic, educator, Buddhist monk, author, journalist and poet. He is a former education professor at the University of Ontario in Oshawa, Ontario, and the founder of the now-defunct Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies (Canada) in Toronto. Early childhood and education Sugunasiri was born to Buddhist parents in Tangalle, Sri Lanka, and educated at Nalanda College Colombo and Ananda College in Colombo. While at Nalanda he was active in sports, serving as vice-captain of an under-16 team, and also a lance-sergeant of a junior cadet platoon at Nalanda. Although he failed to gain admission to University of Ceylon, Sugunasiri earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of London through self-study, specializing in the Pali, Sanskrit and Sinhala languages. In 1964 he earned a Fulbright Smith Mundt scholarship from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Sugunasiri also holds a master's deg ...
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Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word "professor" is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well. This usage would be considered incorrect among other academic communities. However, the otherwise unqualified title "Professor" designated with a capital letter nearly always refers to a full professo ...
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