The Kandy Esala Perahera: Stepping into a Colourful Past
Logan Beardsley The people begin to gather by Kandy's famous lake from morning. Whole families, sometimes the population of entire ...
Tag: Spiritual
Kataragama: The Place of Penance
Hans Baedeker Deep in the jungle fastness of Ruhuna in southeastern Sri Lanka is a shrine which the traditions of more ...
Frescoes from Two Temples
Degaldoruwa Rajamahavihara - in Gunnepana, a suburb of Kandy Photographs by Gamini Jayasinghe Degaldoruwa - Rajamahavihara A temple in the ...
Healing Masks of Sri Lanka
Kalpana Isaac Historically masks were used in rituals to exorcise villagers' fears and illnesses. Even today, patients who require psychiatric ...
Colombo: Where Four Religions Meet
A Felician Fernando A sense of religion, if not its practice, pervades many great cities of the world. The outward ...
Vesak: Buddhism’s Triple Event
Wijeratne Muhandiram A typical cluster of Vesak lanterns made of paper and bamboo swing in the breeze The crowds gather ...
The Mountain of the Sacred Footprint
Lucien Rajakarunanayake Ceylon from whatever direction it is approached, unfolds a scene of loveliness and grandeur unsurpassed, if it be ...
Cave Temples of Dambulla: A Record of Beauty in Painting and Sculpture
Swarnamali Seneviratne A happy blend of antiquity and richly textured artistic splendour cloaks the entire vicinity where the historic Dambulla ...
Ancient Bronzes from Polonnaruwa
Maureen Seneviratne A beautiful bronze of Tara in seated position Discovered by the then Archaeological Commissioner, H.C.P. Bell in 1907 ...
Moonstone Step into Sanctuary
Renuka Jeya Raj Of all the many mediums through which the versatile craftsmen of yore sought to express themselves, sculpture ...