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    The Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara is an ancient Buddhist temple in Tissamaharama, Southern Province of Sri Lanka. It was one of the four major Buddhist...
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    Tissamaharama potsherd with alleged Tamil Brahmi inscription was unearthed, however the scripts revealed a unique language. Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara...
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    temples Brahma-vihara Cetiya Chaitya Kyaung Mahabodhi Temple Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara Pranidhipurna Mahavihar Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara Wat - Buddhist...
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    Gal Vihara Kyaung Mahavihara Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara Nava Vihara Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara Vihara Buddhagaya Watugong Wat – Buddhist temple...
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    Seruwawila Mangala Raja Maha Vihara is an ancient Buddhist temple in Trincomalee district in Eastern Province, which is among the sixteen or seventeen...
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    Kanabiso Pokuna Raja Maha Vihara (Sinhala: කණබිසෝ පොකුණ රජ මහා විහාරය) is an ancient Buddhist temple in Monaragala District, Sri Lanka. The temple is located...
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  • Kataragama Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara, Tissamaharama Yatala Vehera, Tissamaharama Dhowa rock temple, Bandarawela Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara, Mahiyangana...
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    constructed a vihara and 68 caves for the bhikkhus to reside in. At Mihintale there gradually grew a number of Buddhist monasteries or viharas with all the...
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  • 2013. Wettimuny, Samangie (2009-05-17). "The splendour of Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara". The Sunday Observer. Retrieved 2009-09-25. "Seruwila to Sri Pada...
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    Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Tree is a historical sacred bo tree (Ficus religiosa) in the Mahamewuna Garden in historical city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. This...
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  • Ti-Ratana Welfare Society Tisarana Ti-Sarana Buddhist Association Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara Tittha Sutta Tonglen Torma Tranquillity Transfer of merit Trapusa...
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    Ridi Viharaya (redirect from Ridi Vihara)
    statue and an Anuradhapura era-gold plated Buddha statue. According to Ridi vihara asna, a chronicle, the latter was brought down from India. Other statues:...
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    as a hemispherical dome surmounted with a spire (kota). Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara in Mahiyangana, Uva Province is regarded as the first stupa of ancient...
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    Sri Maha Bodhi Viharaya is a Theravada Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in Bahirawakanda, approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) from the city centre...
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  • Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. 14775. 17 November 1967. "Tissamaharama". Department of Archaeology, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 21 March 2016. Gazette...
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  • Vessagiri Dambulla Rock Temple Pilikuththuwa Raja Maha Vihara Aluvihara Rock Cave Temple Dimbulagala Raja Maha Vihara Bogoda and Dowa cave temples Kinihiri Kanda...
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  • අමරපුර–රාමඤ්ඤ සාමග්‍රී මහා සංඝ සභාව, romanized: Amarapura–Rāmañña Sāmagrī Mahā Saṁgha Sabhāva) is the larger of the two Buddhist monastic orders (Pali:...
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    succession war, he sent him to Sri Lanka. The party left from Vedasagiri vihara, believed to be modern-day Sanchi. Mahavamsa and Dipavamsa, the chronicles...
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    to the British in 1815, the custody of the Relic was handed over to the Maha Sangha (the Buddhist Clergy). In the absence of the king, a chief lay custodian...
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    Lanka. January 15, 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014. "President worships Sithulpawwa Raja Maha Vihara". NEWS.LK. Retrieved 12 September 2014. Sithulpawwa...
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    marshy land. It has the main features of a Vihara (temple), the Cetiya (Pagada) the Bodhitree, the Vihara Mandiraya, the Seema malaka (assembly hall for...
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    been discovered during recent excavations around a cave at Warana Raja Maha Vihara and also in Kalatuwawa area. The skeletal remains of dogs from Nilgala...
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    May 2010. Deniyaye Pannaloka Buddarakkitha Thera (2020). Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara: New Paintings (archived). "Sangamitta Teri". What Buddha Said Net...
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    (301-328) and handed over the tooth relic. The king enshrined it in Meghagiri Vihara (present day Isurumuniya) in Anuradhapura. Safeguarding the relic was the...
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  • සෝමාවතී(Sanctuary in the middle of the great forest: Somavati)". "Somawathi Raja Maha Viharaya සෝමාවතී රජ මහා විහාරය". 14 April 2022. Cheng, Feng-Chou; Chiang...
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    Magama. Somawathiya is therefore much older than Ruwanwelisaya, Mirisawetiya Vihara or Jetavanaramaya. The stupa is named after Princess Somawathi, the sister...
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    and the cultural and economic centres of ancient Sri Lanka. Magama, Tissamaharama and Mahanagakula (now called as Ambalantota) were established here....
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    pillaging and agreed to build a vihara on the grounds of Mahavihara. The Mahavamsa quotes the king: "We will make the vihara to be dwelt in yet again; forgive...
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    of 9, he was ordained under Arungamuwe Rewatha Thero of Thotagamuwa Raja Maha Vihara at Hikkaduwa and was given the Dharma name of "Hikkaduwe Sumangala"...
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  • seen in the large forest areas of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Matale, Tissamaharama, Situlpawwa and Ruhuna and all over the island. Sri Lanka was then the...
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