The Unlikely Story of How Dharmaraja College Was Born
One night. One man. One tree that stood in the way of history.
In 1887, British colonial authorities thought they'd found the perfect trap — a sacred Bo tree that no Buddhist would dare cut down, ...... Leave it, and the school dies before it begins.
They didn't count on what happened next.
The story of Dharmaraja College is one of audacity —
an American outsider,
Kandyan nobles,
a midnight act of quiet brilliance,
and twelve boys who sat down
in a thatched shed and started something that would outlast the empire trying to stop it.
138 years later, Old Rajans around the world still carry what those founders built.
Read the full story of how Dharmaraja College came to be — and why it matters more than ever.
