These images Professor Perera states led to the ideas pertaining to the turning out of colossal statues of the Buddha in Sri Lanka. The first attempt was the carving of the Avukana Buddha Image in the ...

Progressively enhanced over the centuries by a multitude of kings, the temple complex remains the best preserved ancient ...

The Buddha Vihara on Customs Road in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which was opened in 1935, offers a fascinating piece of our heritage ...

If the Ramayana is a myth, an epic created in India revolving around Sita, Ram and Raavan the king of “Lanka”, promoting the ...

"Colonel Robertson of the Malay regiment brought home, in 1803, an image of Buddou, found in the palace of Candy when taken by general Macdoual in February of the same year. By the favour of colonel ...

Some reports have also linked the NTJ to a spate of vandalism last December that targeted Buddhist temples in Mawanella, central Sri Lanka. The faces of Buddha statues that were on display outside ...

High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha handed over a statue of Lord Buddha in Dharmachakra Mudra through Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to the Dharmayathanaya Temple Colombo, ...

To this day, though controversial, Vishnu in Sri Lanka is a future Buddha, just as in India, Buddha is a former Vishnu. Anirudh Kanisetti is a public historian. He is the author of Lords of the ...