Sunday, January 16, 2011
IMAGES OF SRI LANKA - CORN ON THE COB. BADA IRINGU
Roadside, Koslanda - Anu Weerasuriya
Colombo Market - Anu Weerasuriya
Thursday, January 13, 2011
IMAGES OF SRI LANKA - ALU VIHARA & NALANDA
"Karma Sutra" Sculpture, Nalanda Gedige - Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
Nalanda Gedige - Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
Alu Vihara Temple - Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
STUDIO TIMES BULLETIN - JANUARY 2011
Alu Vihara Temple
It is at this temple near Matale that the Buddhist Scriptures were committed to the writing by the monks of Alu Vihara. During the reign of Valagamba (104-77 BC) the Tripitika was written on ola leaves in Pali. Carved into the tall rock face are these triangular niches for oil lamps.
Pidurangala
Across the road from the rock of Pidurangala is the ancient viharaya with a chaitya and bodhighara. The chapter house is a structure of tall columns very similar to what is called ‘Elephant Stables’ in Tissamaharama. Far from being a place where elephants were tethered, these stone pillars seem to have supported an upper storied structure. At the top end of some of the pillars are rectangular grooves on which cross-beams would have rested. The viharaya is located in a forested arcade full of tall na trees. It was quiet and undisturbed and the only movement other than from the wind was from a rock squirrel which was busily plying back and forth carrying branches to make a nest high up on a tree.
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