The mainly Sinhala province also has a large population of Indian-origin Tamils working in plantations.
There were Sinhala and Muslim as well as Tamil students on the campus, one staff member emphasised.
News of the 38-year-old's retirement was made public an hour after the BBC Sinhala Service revealed his plans.
The presiding monk, Akmeemana Dayarathana, has founded another ultra-nationalist Buddhist group, Sinhala Echo.
The job advertisement, published only in the state-owned Sinhala-language newspaper, drew 178 responses.
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"I think Kumar Sangakkara's team is focused very much to win the World Cup, " he told the BBC Sinhala Service.
"There is no truth in these reports, " he told BBC Sinhala Service.
The original owner of the moonstone was four years old when they moved to Sussex, her husband, Michael Hickmott, told BBC Sinhala.
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And they will be permitted to do so because the other side -- the Sinhala side -- is also using democratic dialogue.
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told the BBC that government forces would not engage in any offensive operations during the two-day Sinhala and Tamil New Year period.
Indeed, in Jaffna, TNA leaflets claimed that to vote for the ruling coalition would be to subject the peninsula to rule by Sri Lanka's mainly-Buddhist Sinhala majority.
But speaking to the BBC Sinhala service, senior rebel leader B Nadesan said it was nothing but malicious propaganda and their leader was very much within the north-east leading the movement.
Signs are only in the English and Sinhala languages.
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