[Buddha-l] Ven S Mahinda Thera:

[Christopher Fynn]

http://www.dailynews.lk/2013/05/16/news40.asp

I'm told this monk and "Sri Lankan patriot" from Sikkim was in fact a
younger brother of    of Kazi Dawa Samdup (1868-1922) who translated
"The Tibetan Book of the Dead" and several other books that were later
published by W. Y. Evans-Wentz.

There is also a related pape,r “The First Vajrayana-turned-Theravadin
Buddhist Monks: The Forgotten Legacy of Sikkimese King Sidkeong
Tulku’s Theravadin Education Experiments in Myanmar and Sri Lanka”,
listed here:
http://buddhistcrossroads.wordpress.com/conference-abstracts/

Does anyone know anything more about this figure?

- Chris