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{{Short description|Sri Lankan activist}}
'''Lokusathu Hewa Mettananda''' (19 March 1894 – 1 November 1967) was a [[Sri Lanka]]n educationist and activist. L. H. Mettananda served as the principal of [[Nalanda College, Colombo]] (1925 to 1926) [[Dharmaraja College]] (1936–1945) and [[Ananda College]] (1945–1954). He was a member of the Buddhist Committee of Inquiry, which was established by the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress in 1954, and was the leader of the Bauddha Jathika Balawegaya (Buddhist National Force) and the Dharma Samaja Party.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Perera |first1=Janaka |title=Pioneer of Buddhist revivalism |url=https://archives.dailynews.lk/2009/03/20/fea01.asp |access-date=19 April 2024 |publisher=Daily News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chandrasekera |title=He did yeoman service for the upliftment of ANCL newspapers |url=https://www.sundaytimes.lk/110227/Plus/plus_04.html |publisher=Sunday Times}}</ref>

Mettananda was born in Kaluwadumulla, Ambalangoda, to L. H. Kovies De Silva and Weerasooriya Karalinahamy. He was the eldest in the family of five brothers and one sister. He was educated at [[Dharmasoka College|Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda]] and [[Richmond College, Galle]], completing his  London Matriculation examination in 1913. Thereafter he trained as a teacher at the  Teacher's Training College, Colombo from 1914 to 1915. Later he gained a Diploma in Education from the London Day Training College in 1930. He taught at [[Sri Sumangala College|Sri Sumangala Boy's School, Panadura]]; [[Holy Cross College, Kalutara]] and joined the teaching staff of [[Ananda College]] in 1919. He was selected as the first principal at [[Nalanda College, Colombo|Nalanda Vidyalaya]] in 1923 by the [[Buddhist Theosophical Society]].<ref>{{cite web |title=L. H. Mettananda  (1894 -1967) |url=https://www.lhmettananda.com/the-man-2/ |website=lhmettananda.com |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref>

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