Courtesy Adaderana Following a milestone in international relations and provenance research, six priceless Kandyan artifacts seized during the Dutch colonial occupation of Sri Lanka have now been returned from the Netherlands. Accordingly, these Kandyan artifacts will be on public display at the Colombo National Museum from today (Dec.05) until further notice, the President’s Media Division […]

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By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer A Portuguese envoy in the court of a Sri Lankan king Colombo, October 15: Speaking at the Sitawaka-Sisu Arunalu programme held at the Rajasingha Central College, Hanwella, on September 25, President Ranil Wickremesinghe called for a fresh analysis of the achievements of Rajasingha the First, a courageous and patriotic” King of Sitawaka, a 16th.century principality […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, September 28: Events leading to the controversial takeover of the Kandyan kingdom by the British in 1815 and the aftermath have been written about both from the British and the Sri Lankan viewpoint. The British view is vividly presented in Ceylon Ancient and Modern published by Chapman and Hall of London in 1876. […]

Asutosh Mishra* Department of Anthropology, IGNOU University, Cuttack, India, Abstract The island country, Sri Lanka, famously known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean and the soul of India that is Odisha otherwise known as the temple city of India had a very ancient connection. History has been saying that the founder of the Sinhalese race […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Dutch cultural delegation is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from August 27 – 31 to sign the legal document transferring the ownership of the cultural artifacts that will be returned to the island nation later this year. The delegation will be led by Gunay Uslu, the State Secretary for Cultural and Media […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has made the biggest contribution to China in history by gifting Vinaya Pitaka to 400Ad Buddhist monk Faxian who travelled through the old Silk Route in search of Buddhist scripts, said a chief prelate announcing a series of Chinese funded welfare projects to mark the 10th anniversary of ‘One […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Sir Robert Chalmers Colombo, August 14: Sir Robert Chalmers, an Oxonian and an eminent scholar of Buddhism and Pali, was excited when he was appointed Governor of Buddhist-majority Ceylon in 1913. The assignment was right up his street. While being an official in the British Treasury, Chalmers had pursued his interest in […]

By Prof.Kirthi Tennakone Courtesy The Island Pliny the Elder at work. (Boeheim Library Oxford) ktenna@yahoo.co.uk Civilisations evolve independently and through mutual interaction. Trade, invasions, emissaries and missionaries and the diffusion of ordinary folk across borders represent avenues of cultural interrelationship. The ideas and information aliens bring and their potentialities affirmatively further the advancement of a […]

Graham Shaw Courtesy blogs.lse.ac.uk This fascinating post by Graham Shaw draws attention to the little known role that Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) played in the Indian National Movement by becoming a critical entry-point for nationalists and revolutionary literatures that would otherwise have found it impossible to enter India. A perfectly timed post as both countries mark the 75th […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Gandhara Art Islamabad, July 11: A three-day Gandhara Symposium 2023, titled Cultural Diplomacy: Reviving Gandhara Civilization and Buddhist Heritage in Pakistan”, is being held in Islamabad from July 11 to 13. The Symposium’s organizers include PM Task Force on Gandhara Tourism; the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI); and the Directorate of Archaeology […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, July 2: UNESCO has included the Sri Lankan historical account, the Mahawamsa”,  in its list of 64 new items of documentary heritage inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register. The Memory of the World (MoW) Register lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and […]

Courtesy The Morning The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka, the Mahavamsa”, has been listed among the 64 new items of documentary heritage inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) Memory of the World (MoW) International Register in 2023. It is one of the world’s longest unbroken historical accounts, and the first […]

By Dr Gamini Kariyawasam Courtesy elanka.com pothuvil muhudu vihaaraya king Kavanthissa ( පොතුවිල් හී ඉපැරණි මුහුදු මහා විහාරයේ ,කාවන්තිස්ස නිරිදුන්ගේ ප්‍රතිමාව. ) King Kavantissa and Viharamahadevi deserve the utmost respect of the nation, just like the Gemunu kings who played a crucial role in uniting Sri Lanka in 161 AD. It was once argued by […]

Arunasiri Kottegoda The innocence of Buddhists have cost them much. A good example of this was seen during the enshrining of toothrelics at the Ruwanwelimahaseya. 30 arath theros were to descend from the sky. Areas that were once Buddhist like Iran, Iraq (Mesopotamia) – the yonaka area are today known as Arabia. The Buddhist land […]

BY Sunera Bandara Courtesy The Morning The Madras famine of 1867, when the British empire failed to positively intervene during a long and destructive drought, while also attempting to cut back on welfare costs, bears the hallmark of a most noteworthy and tragic colonial failure to be remembered rather than the celebration of 200 years […]

Anurasiri Kottegoda We have a proud history. We had great kings They made magnificent structures. These amazing achievements are in awe even today. Tourists flock to see these cultural heritage because they do not have such in their own nations. They come to visit Ruwanweli Maha Seya, 60,000,000 tons of bricks used to make Jetawanaramaya, […]

By Dr. Rajkumar Singh Courtesy Ceylon Today Ashoka, the Great, was a prominent Mauryan emperor who ruled over a vast empire in India from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. After his famous military conquest of the Kalinga kingdom, he underwent a spiritual transformation and embraced Buddhism. His conversion to Buddhism led to a significant shift […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4:  The High Commission of India in Sri Lanka is holding a special exhibition of India’s rich Buddhist heritage as part of the Buddha Rashmi National Vesak Festival at Seemamalakaya, Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo. The exhibition shows the digital recreations of the Ajanta cave paintings marks the Buddhist festival of Vesak. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4: The Pakistan High Commission set up a Pakistan Pavilion near Gangaramaya Temple, Colombo as part of the National celebrations of Buddha Rashmi” Vesak Festival, 2023. The soft inaugural of the festival was done by the President of Sri Lanka Rani Wickremesinghe on 3rd May. During the visit, the President and […]

Courtesy Adaderana During a discussion on the 178th Anniversary of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) at the Mahaweli Centre on Thursday (April 27), President Ranil Wickremesinghe shared his intentions to establish the Institute of History, with the aim of bringing together the museum, archives, archaeology, cultural triangle, and universities with the RASSL […]

 Lanka Lead News රවිඩ භාෂාව කතාකරන ජනයා මේ රටේ මුල්ම ජනාවාස ඇති කළ බව හා සිංහලයන් පැවතගෙන එන්නේද ඔවුන්ගෙන් බවට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් මහතා පවසන ප්‍රකාශය කිසිම පදනමක් නැති ප්‍රකාශයක් බව මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා යළිත් වරක් පෙන්වා දී තිබේ. එම ප්‍රකාශයේ ජීව විද්‍යාත්මක හෝ වාග්විද්‍යාත්මක පරදනමක් නොමැති බවත්, එය අවිද්‍යාත්මක ප්‍රකාශයක් පමණක් බවත් […]

Citti Media Jeffrey Armstrong provides rare insights into the history of Euro-Christian colonialism + how Britain’s $45 trillion India loot was sanctioned by the Church.

Dr Raoul McLaughlin

Dr Raoul McLaughlin

මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව

Lanka Lead News ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල ජනතාව පරිනාමය වන්නේ දෙමළ ජනතාවගෙන් බවට උතුරු පළාත් හිටපු මහ ඇමැති සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් සිදුකළ ප්‍රකාශය පිළිබදව මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා අදහස් දක්වා ඇත. ඒ අනුව විග්නේෂ්වරන් සදහන් කරන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුල් පදිංචිකරුවන් වූ දෙමළ ජනතාව කතාකර ඇත්තේ සිංහල භාෂාවය.

Shinu Anna Abraham St. Lawrence University Asian Perspectives, Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2003, pp. 207-223 (Article) Abstract For the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the most important documentary source for information on early South lndian culture is a body of prose poetry known as the Sangam anthology. These indigenous texts date […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) (පළමුවෙනි කොටසෙන්)පොළොන්නරුවේ අංක 1 සහ 2 සිව කෝවිල් දෙක හැර ප‍්‍රදේශයේ වෙනත් සිව/හින්දු කෝවිල් නොවූ බව සහ ද්‍රවිඩය’යි විශේෂයෙන් සඳහන් කළ හැකි ගොඩනැගිලි කිසිවක් චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණ යට පෙර නොවූ බව සිංහලයේ ද්‍රවිඩ සිහිවටන පිළිබඳ විමසුමක නිරත වූු මහාචාර්ය නන්දසේන මුදියන්සේ ප‍්‍රකාශ කරයි. චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණිකයන් පළවාහැරීමෙන් පසු පළමුවෙනි විජයබාහු රජු […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) කුරුඳුගමුරට පුරාණයව්‍ය.ව. 1815 දක්වා කුරුඳුගමුරට යනුවෙන් හඳුවනු ලැබූ, සිංහල රාජ්‍ය පාලන කොට්ඨාශයට දිවයිනේ නැගෙනහිර යාන්ඔය, මාඔය සහ පේර්ආරු ආදී ගංගා නිම්න ආශි‍්‍රත භූමි ඇතූළත් වී ඇත. ඒ භූමිය ලීිග් දහයක මුහුදු තීරයක් සහ රට තුළට ලීග් අටකට වැඩි භූමි ප‍්‍රදේශයක් වූ බව පුර්තුගීසි ජාතික රිබෙයිරෝ සඳහන් කරයි.1 ව්‍ය.ව. 1876 […]