This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist ...

Sakwala Chakraya is an ancient carving located in Sri Lanka's sacred city of Anuradhapura which has intrigued historians, archaeologists, and academics for over a century. It is believed that the ...

At a time when the treasured city was in a state of neglect, he led the movement to restore it to its past glory. Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka’s first capital from 4th century B.C to 10th century A.D, was ...

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