Venerable Great Britain Kassapa Mahathera is a senior elder of the Theravadan Buddhist Order, who, having been born as a Protestant Christian, embraced Buddhism at the age of thirteen in 1976, & who ordained as a novice-monk at the age of fourteen years in 1977, under the auspices of the late famous missionary monk, Ven. Dr. Hammalawa Saddhatissa Mahanayaka Thera, at the London Buddhist Vihara in Chiswick, South West London, in England. Almost immediately following ordination, he travelled to Sri Lanka to reside, & to study & meditate.

He recieved full ordination as a monk in his twentieth year, & has spent well over forty years as a fully ordained monk, & spent around a quarter of a century in Asia, over twenty-one of those years having been spent in Sri Lanka, over a period stretching from 1977 upto present. He regards Sri Lanka as his Ancient Spiritual Home, & as the “Ancient Palace Of Theravada Buddhism”, as the “Foster Mother Of Pure Theravada Buddhism”, & as a “little Buddhist Heaven on Earth”.

He returned to re-reside in the U.K. in 2010, & has served the Buddhist Society, in Victoria, Central London, since 2015, where he conducts regular Meditation Sessions. He also works as Spiritual Adviser to a U.K. registered Charity Foundation dedicated to the protection & preservation of the ancient Buddhist Cultural Heritage of Sri Lanka.