Sujatha was born in Kandy, Sri Lanka in 1967 and is the youngest of two children. Even as a child, he knew that he wanted to be a Buddhist monk. At age 11, his parents gave their permission for him to enter the monastery. Sujatha was trained under the school’s ordination teacher, the Venerable Dhamawasa Thero and Venerable Muditha Thero. He is currently the abbot of The Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple, in Chicago, Illinois. He teaches Theravada Buddhist meditation in Illinois, Wisconsin, and in the Las Vegas, Nevada area.