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Dharmapala of Kotte

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Dharmapala or Dom João Dharmapala Peria Bandara (1541 – 27 May 1597) was the last king of the Kingdom of Kotte, in present-day Sri Lanka, from 1551 until 27 May 1597. He is also known as Dom João Dharmapala, the first Christian king in Sri Lankan history.[2][3] He is widely despised by the majority of Buddhist Sinhalese for having betrayed his religion of birth i.e., Buddhism and converting to the religion of the foreign conquerors, who they viewed as carrying a reign of terror. Dharmapala allowed Buddhist Temples in his Kingdom, including the highly venerated Temple of Kelaniya to be ransacked and burnt down by the Portuguese.

Birth

Dom João Dharmapala (Don John Dharmapala) was born as the eldest child of Weediye Bandara, a Prince from Madampe and his wife Samudra Devi, daughter of King Bhuvanekabãhu VII the King of Kotte. His exact date of birth is unknown, but the year is commonly regarded as 1541. He had a younger brother, Prince Wijayapala. A golden statue of Dharmapala was sent to Portugal by King Buvanekabahu VII to be crowned by the King of Portugal, and thus symbolizing the support of the Portuguese to the prince.

Personal life

His maternal grandfather, King Bhuvanekabahu VII, raised him under the supervision of the Portuguese.

First, he married Princess Isabella of Kandy, daughter of King Jayaweera Wickramabahu of Kandy. After she died, he married Queen Dona Isabella's niece, Princess Margarida of Kandy, who was the eldest daughter of King Karaliyadde Bandara of Kandy.

After his grandfather's assassination by a Portuguese soldier in Kelaniya in 1551, he used to reside in the Colombo fortress under the protection of the Portuguese as his conversion to Christianity was widely opposed by the largely Buddhist Sinhala population of Kotte. The Portuguese military occupation of Kotte during the reign of Don Juan Dharmapala ended in 1565 when they were forced to withdraw from Kotte by the unrelenting attacks of the Sinhalese King Sitawaka Rajasinghe.

After his conversion from Buddhism to Catholicism in 1557[4] he would bequeath (in 1580) his entire realm to the King of Portugal. The Portuguese takeover of Kotte, however, was resisted by the Sinhalese Buddhists and would only be completed during the captaincy of Dom Jerónimo de Azevedo (1594 - 1612).[5]

Véase también

Referencias

  1. ↑ (Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 35): Luna nueva de Thadingyut 934 ME = 24 de septiembre de 1573
  2. ↑ Fernando, Mario (2007). Liderazgo espiritual en el mundo empresarial: un estudio interreligioso . Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781847208613Consultado el 26 de febrero de 2015 .
  3. ↑ "Encuentro de los portugueses con el rey de Kotte en 1517" . Denis N. Fernando . Consultado el 15 de octubre de 2015 .
  4. ↑ Thomaz, Luis Filipe (2018). L'expansion portuguesa dans le monde, XIV-XVIIIe siècles : les multiples facettes d'un prisme (en francés) (2e édition révisée et augmentée ed.). París: Chandeigne. pag. 181.ISBN​    978-2-36732-175-2OCLC 1081316746 .​ 
  5. ↑ Disney, AR (2009). Historia de Portugal y el imperio portugués : desde sus inicios hasta 1807. Volumen 2, El imperio portugués . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pág. 166. ISBN   978-0-511-65024-6OCLC 558951192​​ 
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