Gangaramaya Temple
In the late 19th century, Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera set up the Gangaramaya Temple in Sri Lanka’s Colombo. It soon became famous for its unusual blend of architectural styles including Sri Lankan, Indian, Thai, and Chinese. It’s not just a place of worship either. Gangaramaya Temple is also a center of learning. The Sri Jinaratana Training Institute has 40 training centers and over 7,000 students attending vocational courses daily. In addition, the Gangaramaya Temple’s Na Sevana’s Community Development Project in Sooriyawewa aims to uplift the community through the cultivation of crops, fruits, vegetables, animal husbandry, and health and wellbeing.
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Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic.
The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a world-renowned place of worship, where the left Canine tooth of Gautama Buddha is enshrined. The temple which is venerated by thousands of local & foreign devotees and tourists daily was named as a world heritage by UNESCO in 1988.
The temple which carries a lot of value to Buddhists all over the world also has immense cultural value. The architecture is of unique Kandyan architectural style with a combination of the unique style used to build “Dalada Mandira” the shrines which housed the Sacred Tooth Relic previously in other kingdoms.
The temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is built in the city of Kandy near the ancient Royal Palace which is situated to the North of the temple and the forest reserve called “Udawaththa Kelaya” to the East. The famous Kandy Lake also known as “Kiri Muhuda” to the South and “Natha & Paththini Devala” on the West. The temple is adorned with intricate carvings using gold, silver, bronze, and ivory
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The largest existing grain crop in the world The Great Stupa of Kelaniya Vihara is ninety (90) feet high and one hundred and eighty (180) feet in circumference, and Chaitya King treasured the pure Buddha seat used by the Tathagata when he visited Kelaniya,
as well as all the valuables used by Buddha's leading monks. Maniakkhika Narajun was the first to construct this pagoda. Sri Kalyani Bodhi, also known as Kelaniya Bodhi, has been worshiped by devout devotees for thousands of years and is considered the oldest and most powerful Bodhi in Sri Lanka.
The Mahanubhavassan Vihara Mandir of Kelaniya was built on the site where Lovthura Buddha Rajanan Vahanasa came to read the Dharma. Paintings and sculptures are examples of historical artistic elements.
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Gadaladeniya Temple
Gadaladenyia Vihara (also known as Saddharmatilaka Vihara or Dharma Kirthi Viharaya) is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Pilimathalawa, Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located on Gadaladenyia Road (B116), approximately 12.5 km (7.8 mi) to the west of Kandy. It is considered one of the largest rock temples in Sri Lanka.
Gadaladeniya is famous for Sri Lanka’s best paintings from the Middle Ages. The magnificent door is worth seeing due to its painting, which also dates back to the same time. This is to say, they are 700 years old. It‘s all the more astonishing that medieval paintings have not been restored ever since. The colors still look as fresh as just painted. Second, only to the Sigiriya frescos, the paintings on the wings of the door of the Gadaladeniya shrine room are the most popular historical paintings in Sri Lanka
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