Isurumuniya
A rock temple of the third century BCE, best known for the carved panel called the Isurumuniya Lovers. The identity of the two…
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The reservoirs, stupas, temples and ancient cities that the rest of this archive describes.
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- Stupas & Dagobas 5
- Temples & Shrines 7
- Tanks & Irrigation 4
- Monuments & Carving 4
- Ancient Cities 3
- Landscape 1
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
A sacred fig grown from a cutting of the tree at Bodh Gaya under which the Buddha attained enlightenment, brought to the island…
Lankatilaka Image House
A brick image house of the twelfth century, its walls still standing to a considerable height and enclosing a standing Buddha…
Dambulla Cave Temple
Five caves under a rock overhang, in continuous religious use since the first century BCE and containing the largest surviving…
Mihintale
The hill where, by tradition, the monk Mahinda met King Devanampiya Tissa in the third century BCE and introduced Buddhism to the…
Sri Dalada Maligawa
The temple housing the relic of the Buddha's tooth, in the Kandyan royal complex. Possession of the relic was for centuries…
Embekka Devalaya
A fourteenth-century shrine whose drummers' hall carries the most celebrated wood carving in Sri Lanka. The timber pillars are…