our trip to katharagama - part 4
location- in our vehicle...
Date and time - on 4th february 2010,@ 8.42 a.m
Other - me inne ape kattiya.. okkoma 16y ...soooooo fun.. in the back sheet mage mallila 4( tharindu, supun, sajith, tharaka) , in next sheet mage nangiyai(pathumi), punchi (chandrika), me(tharika) and my mom.(priyanthi).. in the next sheet podi punchi(shirani), bappa (chandana)and loku amma(nalani)...in the 1st sheet 2weni loku amma(sunanda), seeya and achchi... in front sheet mahappa,podi bappa and the driver...
Sigiriya (Ravana's Palace) - Incredible Ancient Technology Found in Sri Lanka?
Instagram................
Twitter......................
Facebook..............
Website....................
Hey guys, today we are going to look at a marvelous place in Sri Lanka, this place is known as Sigiriya. There is nothing like this anywhere in the world, which is why it is known as the 8th wonder of the world. This is actually a giant monolithic rock, about 660 feet tall, and you can see that it has a flat top, like somebody cut it with a giant knife. There are incredible ruins at the top which are extremely mysterious, so let us go straight to the top and see what's up there.
As you can see there are a lot of strange brick structures here and there and it is not only confusing for visitors, but even archeologists are not able to make complete sense of what these structures were used for. They confirm that everything you see is at least 1500 years old. But the mystery is not what these structures are, it is how these structures were built. How did ancient builders manage to move all these bricks to the top of the rock? It is reported that at least 3 million bricks are found here, but it would be impossible to make these bricks on top of the rock, there is not enough clay available here. They would have to have transported these bricks from the ground.
Now, the really bizarre part is that there are no ancient stairs from the ground level which go to the top of the rock. Look, all these metal steps were built in the last century. Without these new stairs, it will be very hard to climb this rock. This whole rock is now set up with different types of stairs, this is the spiral stairs at a different level. The ancient builders built very limited stairs, but these stairs definitely did not reach the top. This is exactly why no one, not even the locals knew about Sigiriya until 200 years ago, because there were no stairs to the top. And this is why an Englishman by the name of Jonathan Forbes Discovered the ruins of Sigiriya in 1831.
So how did early human beings get to the top of Sigiriya? Let us assume that it is possible to hike up hill through these very steep, wooded areas. But to bring 3 million bricks from the ground level, you will definitely need proper stairs. Without this, it would be impossible to transport them to the top.
Even if we claim that the bricks were made on top of the rock itself by some miraculous means, The construction work here would have needed hundreds of workers. How did they get their food? Look around, there are no fruit bearing trees or crops growing here, to feed anyone. And what about tools? How did they carry their massive primitive tools? Where did they rest and sleep? But it gets more baffling. Look carefully, there are not only bricks here, but look at these blocks. This is marble.
The milky white marble stones are not native to this area at all. These blocks are actually very heavy, every stone which makes up a step weighs about 50 pounds. And we can find thousands of these marble blocks here. Experts agree that Marble is not naturally found anywhere nearby, so how were they transported up to a height of 660 feet, especially without stairs to climb ?
But it is not the bricks or the marble that really baffles me. It is the granite. Look at this large water tank. If you ignore the bricks and marble blocks around it, you understand that this is the largest monolithic tank in the world. It has not been built by adding stone blocks, it has been created by removing granite, by scooping out tons and tons of granite from Solid Rock. And exactly how many tons of rocks have been removed? This entire tank is 90 feet long and 68 feet wide and is about 7 feet deep. This means that at least 3,500 tons of granite have been removed. So you can take a minute to really sit back and think if mainstream archeologists are right. If human beings were using primitive tools like chisels, hammers and pick axes on granite, which is one of the hardest rocks in the world, removing 3,500 tons would have taken years. And how did these workers feed themselves during all these years, if they don't even have stairs to go to the ground level? There is something fundamentally wrong with mainstream history books which talk about ancient people cutting rocks with chisels and hammers. But this is not just a theory, we have actual evidence in front of our eyes. Look here, we don't see individual chisel marks, we see long, snake like, winding tool marks which are continuous. This is not how primitive chiseling and wedge marks look.
#Search4Truth #Sigiriya #AncientAliens
Fly by Lakmi Intro
I will be presenting much Information related to Aviation, Travel, and Lifestyle. Stay Tuned!
Gangaramaya Temple - Colombo, travel in Sri Lanka. (2018)
Gangaramaya Temple History
Don Bastian (de Silva Jayasuriya Goonewardane, Mudaliyar), a famous 19th century shipping merchant who was looking for a suitable land to build a temple for the Matara Sri Dharmarama thero, bought a beautiful piece of land belonging to three Moors, and filled and prepared the land at great expense. The land bordered on two sides by the Moragoda Ela and the Pettigala Ela was used to build the temple, which was subsequently named the Padawthota Gangaramaya Viharaya. The Mudaliyar, with the assistance of the people built a great 'Chaitya' (Dagaba) of 30 Riyans, and built a great decorative arch (thorana) and a 'Sandakada pahana' modeled on the ones found at Anuradhapura, at the entrance to the temple. A 'Bo' sapling brought from the great Sri Maha Bhodiya in Anuradhapura, was also planted by his own hands and brought up. He also built a three-storied preaching hall and the walls, railings and the moat round the temple.
INSTAGRAM - RDCDWORLD
SRI LANKA | PART 1| Moonstone Quarry, Buddhist Temple
This is some footage from my 3 week trip to Sri Lanka where I was volunteering teaching English. I had the most amazing time seeing some beautiful sites and meeting the best people. x
Sri Lanka - Day1 - pt 3 Anuradhapura
SRY LANKA - POLONNARUWA
Il complesso monumentale e la famosa statua del Budda dormiente interamente scavata nella roccia
Dewatagaha mosque
Dewatagaha Mosque (Shaikh Usman Waliyullah Shrine) Colombo,Sri Lanka.(
Infotel 2017: 25 Years & Beyond, Towards A Digital Economy
Anuradhapura Sri Lanka
Ik heb deze video gemaakt met het videobewerkingsprogramma van YouTube (
斯里蘭卡科倫坡寺廟Gangaramaya temple in Sri Lanka Colombo
請用片右下角調HD1080高清睇片。
下文自(Wikipedia)
Gangaramaya Temple 是斯里蘭卡科倫坡 最重要的寺廟之一 ， 是現代建築和文化精髓的混合。
寺廟的建築展示了斯里蘭卡，泰國，印度，和中國建築的最佳組合。
這佛寺包括幾個氣勢宏偉的建築物和距離的平靜水域不遠處貝拉湖上的一塊土地，這是最初在一塊沼澤地的小庵。 它有一個精舍（主要特點廟 ），該Cetiya（Pagada）的Bodhitree，該精舍Mandiraya中，西瑪馬六甲（禮堂僧侶）和遺物室。 此外，一個博物館 ，一個圖書館 ，一個宿舍樓，一座三層Pirivena，教育廳和施捨大廳也在該處。
其中最引人注目的遊客是Simamalaka靖國神社，這 是建以捐贈從一個穆斯林保薦人的設計架構杰弗裡·巴瓦 。
唐·巴斯蒂安（德席爾瓦賈亞蘇里亞Goonewardane，Mudaliyar），一個著名的19世紀航海商人誰是尋找一個合適的土地興建的馬特勒斯里蘭卡Dharmarama thero一個寺廟，買了漂亮的一塊土地屬於三個摩爾人，並填充和準備土地在巨大的代價。 由Moragoda埃拉和Pettigala埃拉接壤兩側的土地被用於建造聖殿，其後命名為Padawthota Gangaramaya Viharaya。 該Mudaliyar，與人民群眾的協助下建成的30 Riyans一個偉大的'佛教寺'（Dagaba），並建立了一個偉大的裝飾拱門（thorana）和 Sandakada pahana 為藍本在阿努拉德普勒上發現的，在入口處寺廟。 A'博'樹苗從偉大斯里蘭卡摩訶Bhodiya在阿努拉德普勒帶來的，也種下了他自己的手和長大。 他還建立了一個3層高的講經堂，牆壁，欄杆和護城河圍繞寺廟。
今天Gangaramaya不僅作為一個地方的佛教崇拜，它也是一個學習的中心。 該廟是參與佛教福利工作，包括老人們的家園，一所職業學校和一所孤兒院。 該廟是唯一的吸引力和包容許多不同宗教的教會成員。 它也一直在建立的佛教寺廟在史丹頓島 （美國）佛教中心在紐約和佛教中心在坦桑尼亞 ，從而有助於傳播佛法在其他國家。
Sri Lanka 2: GANGARAMAYA TEMPLE
☼ ALL INFO HERE ☼
Gangaramaya is a Buddhist temple and museum in the center of Colombo. We took a walk around to see the multitude of statues and Buddhist art. Subscribe for new travel videos every wednesday!
Check out my new travel blog:
►Watch my previous travel videos!►
-------------------------------------------------
~ FIND ME ~
Facebook:
Twitter:
Instagram:
Blog:
Soundcloud:
~ CAMERA ~
Canon EOS 600D.
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM
Edited with iMovie.
~ TRAVEL VIDEOS ~
Here are the links to my YouTube travel video playlists:
Sri Lanka:
Egypt:
South Africa:
Andalucia, Spain:
Madrid, Spain:
Pakistan:
UK & USA:
♡ I hope you have a wonderful trip wherever in the world you're going! ♡
Dhamma Talks_Ven_Dodampahala_2005_07_03_Split4
Dhamma Talks_Ven_Dodampahala_2005_07_03_Split4
Sri Lanka,ශ්රී ලංකා,Kandy,Tooth Temple,Sri Dalada Maligawa on a peaceful day
Temple of the Tooth. Sri Dalada Maligawa (Sinhala: ශ්රී දළදා මාළිගාව) or The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the royal palace complex which houses the Relic of the tooth of Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country. Kandy was the last capital of the Sinhalese kings and is a UNESCO world heritage site partly due to the temple.
Monks of the two chapters of Malwatte and Asgiriya conduct daily worship in the inner chamber of the temple. Rituals are performed three times daily: at dawn, at noon and in the evening. On Wednesdays there is a symbolic bathing of the Sacred Relic with an herbal preparation made from scented water and flagrant flowers, called Nanumura Mangallaya. This holy water is believed to contain healing powers and is distributed among those present.
The temple sustained damage from bombings at various times but was fully restored each time.
After the parinirvana of Gautama Buddha, tooth relic was preserved in Kalinga and smuggled to the island by Princess Hemamali and her husband, Prince Dantha on the instructions of her father King Guhasiva.[1] They landed in the island in Lankapattana during the reign of King Kirthi Sri Meghavarna (301-328) and handed over the tooth relic. The king enshrined it Meghagiri Vihara (present day Isurumuniya) in Anuradhapura. Safeguard of the relic was a responsibility of the monarch, therefore over the years the custodianship of relic became to symbolize the right to rule. Therefore reigning monarchs built the tooth relic temples quite close to their royal residences, as was the case during the times of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Dambadeniya, Yapahuwa and Kurunegala kingdoms. During the era of Kingdom of Gampola the relic was housed in Niyamgampaya Vihara. It is reported in the messenger poems such as Hamsa, Gira, and Selalihini that the temple of tooth relic was situated within the city of Kotte when the kingdom was established there.[1]
During the reign of King Dharmapala, the relic kept hidden in Delgamuwa Vihara, Ratnapura in a grinding stone.[1] It was brought to Kandy by Hiripitiye Diyawadana Rala and Devanagala Rathnalankara Thera. King Vimaladharmasuriya I built a two storey building to deposit the tooth relic and the building is now gone.[2] In 1603 when the Portuguese invaded Kandy, it was carried to Meda Mahanuwara in Dumbara. It was recovered in the time of Râjasimha II and it has been reported that he reinstate the original building or has built a new temple.[1] The present day temple of the tooth was built by Vira Narendra Sinha.[3] The octagonal Patthirippuwa and moat was added during the reign of Sri Vikrama Rajasinha. Famous Kandyan architect Devandra Mulacharin is credited with building the Patthirippuwa. Originally it was used by the kings for recreational activities and later it was offered to the tooth relic. Now it is an oriental library. Although it was heavily damaged in the 1998 terrorist attack it has restored to its previous state.
The brick wall which runs along the moat and Bogambara lake is known as water waves wall.[3] Holes in this wall are build to light coconut oil lamps. The main entrance gates which lies over the moat is called Mahawahalkada. At the foot of Mahawahalkada steps there is a Sandakada pahana which is carved in Kandyan architectural style. Mahawahalkada was totally destroyed in a 1998 bomb blast and rebuilt afterwards along with sandakada pahana other stone carvings.[4] Elephants are depicted in stone on the either sides of the entrance. A Makara Torana and two guardian stones are placed on top of the staircase. Hewisi drummers' chamber is situated in front of the main shrine. The two storeys of main shrine are known as Palle malaya (lower floor) and Udu malaya (upper floor) or Weda hitina maligawa.[5] The doors of the Weda Hitana Maligawa are carved in ivory. The actual chamber which the tooth relic is kept is known as the Handun kunama.
The golden canopy built in 1987 over the main shrine and the golden fence which encircles the main shrine are other notable features.[6] The tooth relic is encased in seven golden caskets which engraved with precious gemstones.[7] The caskets have a shape of a stupa. The Procession casket which is used during the Esala Perahera is also displayed in the same chamber. (Wikipedia)
Día 1: Sri Lanka - Anuradhapura
En nuestro primer día en Sri Lanka visitamos el Triángulo Cultural, donde nuestra primera parada fue Anuradhapura.
???? DESCUENTOS
➡️ BOOKING 15€ DE DESCUENTO
➡️ 5% DTO EN SEGURO DE VIAJE IATI
➡️ 25 € DTO PRIMERA RESERVA AIRBNB
???? SÍGUENOS!
➡️ WEB:
➡️ FACEBOOK:
➡️ TWITTER:
➡️ INSTAGRAM:
The Most EPIC Train Journey in the world - Ella to Kandy, SRI LANKA
Your visual travel guide to the most epic train journey in the world, Ella to Kandy in Sri Lanka
Ranked one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world. A must do if you travel to Sri Lanka. It's also very cheap!
Read more about it on our website here:
Don't hesitate to follow us for more weekly videos
BEMBALYFE - Your visual travel guide
Dr. Mark Amerasinghe sings, 1983 & 1997, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Dr. Mark Amerasinghe singing with Prof.Valentine Basnayake/Tanya Ekanayake at the piano.
Wild Elephants at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka on the other side of the lake.
Amazing to see wild Elephants at the opposite side of the lake at Polonnaruwa right near the Town. Wildlife is everywhere in Sri Lanka.
D.S.Senanayake college, Computer Day Ninithi 2009
diz z da intro animation i created for Ninithi 2009, the computer day organised by the computer society of D.S.Senanayake college which waz held on 13th November 2009. Ninithi is the sinhala word for Nano Tachnology...
[ Animated by Dilan Samarakkody]