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The latest sites highlighted are Anuradhapura- Eternal Sacred City and Jathika Namal Uyana- the Largest Ironwood forest in Sri Lanka and the largest pink quartz mountain range in Asia. Using the ...
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 ...
Mirisawetiya Stupa, Anuradhapura, second century BCE Photograph by Benoy K Behl In the third century BCE, Prince Mahindra and Princess Sanghamitra, children of Indian Emperor Ashoka, came to the ...