159:. His father was the chief clerk of a tea estate at Hantane in the hills above Kandy and his mother was a simple up-country housewife. He had three brothers and four sisters. A younger sister died prematurely and an older brother died in a car accident on the day of his wedding. His three surviving sisters were Dorothy, Matilde and Lakshmi. Godwin was the youngest of the two surviving brothers, Felix and Hector.
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This touring only increased during the 1990s, and Godwin gave many teachings throughout Europe, Asia and Africa right until the time of his death shortly after returning from a tour of South Africa. He taught meditation not only to
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Psychiatric Ward of the Kandy General Hospital. This was the beginning of a long career in counselling and therapeutic work that Godwin was to undertake at various centres, clinics and hospitals around the Kandy area., and that
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in recent times. During his teaching career he was based at his
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The personal testimonies that poured in after his death and in publications since then attest to the profound influence Godwin had on people from all walks of life; and the centres he set up in
Nilambe and Lewella in Sri Lanka are still flourishing till this day.
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In early 1979 a prosperous Kandy businessman, Mr. Alahakoon announced that he would donate some land from his tea-estate for the establishment of a meditation centre and pay for the construction of some buildings. This became the foundation of the
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After he died two of his friends started collecting transcripts and recordings from all over the world, and this material now makes up a large website, which has formed the basis for numerous books, articles and other publications over the years.
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Switzerland, Germany, U.K., South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana; and later in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
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Williams Cook, Satwant Pasricha, Godwin Samararatne, U Win Maung, Ian Stevenson: Review and analysis of "unsolved" cases of the reincarnation type. II. Comparison of features of solved and unsolved cases. In:
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348:, Retreat Talks in Holland in 1996 & 1998, transcribed and edited by Peter van Leeuwan, revised by Jeanne Mynett. Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Center Trust Board, Kandy, 2009).
383:, Godwin Samararatne, U Win Maung, Ian Stevenson: Review and analysis of "unsolved" cases of the reincarnation type. I. Introduction and illustrative case reports. In:
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Mervyn Croft, Godwin in South Africa in
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Approaching the Dhamma: Buddhist Texts and
Practices in South and South-East Asia, by Anne Blackburn and Jeffrey Samuels. BPS Pariyatti Editions, Seattle U.S.A
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Stevenson, Satwant Pasricha, Godwin Samararatne: Deception and self-deception in cases of the reincarnation type. Seven illustrative cases in Asia. In:
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in Kandy, where his best friend was Siri Gunawardana who later ordained as Venerable Sivali and became a well-known and respected meditation teacher at the
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