Aloysius Pieris SJ (born 9 April 1934) is a Sri Lankan Jesuit priest, theologian, intellect, and the founding director of the Tulana Research Center for Encounter and Dialogue.
[1] In June 1974, Pieris established the Tulana Research Center for Encounter and Dialogue in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and has been its director ever since.
[3] Tulana was created as a Jesuit retreat site, but also as a space for Buddhist-Christian interfaith dialogue.
[5] A festschrift was prepared in his honor on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, entitled Encounters with the Word (2004).
[6] In November 2015, Pieris was awarded an honorary DLitt in recognition of his lifetime contribution to field of humanities by the University of Kelaniya.