Rev Wadigala Samitharathana is the Founding President of the Oxford Buddhist Society. He was born in Sri Lanka in 1995 and was ordained as a Theravāda Buddhist Monk in 2009 - as well as that he took higher ordination at age twenty in 2018 in Sri Lanka with the honour of ‘Śāsana Kīrti Śrī’ (The Glory of Theravāda Buddhist Dispensation). Reverend Samitharathana was grossly involved in a wide range of scriptural learning, falling under the influence of Theravāda monastic education in 2009-2016; these ancient scriptures and manuscripts are historically manifested in Pāli, Sanskrit, Prākrit, and Sinhalese - also, chronologically correlated with Therāvada and Mahāyāna schools in Buddhism and other close-knit departmental disciplines in South Asia, viz., Indology, Hinduism, Vedic and Upanishad traditions. As a result of this multifaceted learning, he could tailor essential readings in Buddhism to a widespread scenario of scrutiny in favour of linguistics, grammar, literature, culture, philosophy, and history in Asia. Eventually, he was awarded ‘Royal Pandit’ (equivalent to BA Hons) in 2017. Subsequently, he entered the University of Peradeniya in 2017 for a BA (Hons) Philosophy, where he received an offer to complete his further studies at Oxford Brookes University in 2021.