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:: Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka ::
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128 miles (205 Km) from Colombo is Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka’s first capital founded around the 4th century BC. According to the Mahavansa, the Sinhala Buddhist chronicle, the city was a model of planning. Anuradhapura has been classed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
This sacred city was Read more... | ...Collapse | established around a sapling from the "tree of enlightenment", The world's oldest tree on record, the "Jayasri Maha Bodhi" Bo tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist nuns and daughter of Emperor Asoka of India. Anuradhapura, a Ceylonese political and religious capital that flourished for 1,300 years, was abandoned after an invasion in 993. Hidden away in thick jungle for a long time, the splendid site, with its palaces, monasteries and monuments, is once again accessible and populated and declared a sacred city. | ...Collapse |
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