Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero (Sinhala: දොඩන්දුවේ ශ්‍රි පියරත්න තිස්ස මහ නායක ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ; 12 December 1826 – 20 May 1907), also known as...

Ashoka, in 236 BC, brought the tree cutting to Sri Lanka during the reign of Sinhalese King Devanampiya Tissa.[1] At more than 2,300 years old, it is the...

Buddhist school in Sri Lanka, 'Jinalabdhi Vishodaka' was founded in 1869 and its founder was Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero In 1880 Henry Steel...

Mahinda thero arrived in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at a young age and was ordained as a Buddhist monk by Ven. Dodanduwa Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero. Having...

designed and constructed in Sri Lanka are the largest brick structures known to the pre-modern world. After Rev. Mahinda thero introduced Buddhism during...

of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya Most Ven. Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero - Former Mahanayaka Thero of the Amarapura Nikaya (circa 1860s), and...

The two siblings later went to Sri Lanka to spread the teachings of Buddha at the request of King Devanampiya Tissa (250 BC – 210 BC) who was a contemporary...

Buddhism. Sri Lankan Buddhism Ashoka Theravada Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura History of Sri Lanka "Ashoka's son took Buddhism outside India". The Times...

359 ft) tall conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka. It is well known for the Sri Pada (Śrī Pāda ; Sinhala: ශ්‍රී පාද, 'sacred footprint'), a...

Devanampiya Tissa who was the king of Sri Lanka at that period met this group and accepted Buddhism and declared Buddhism as the state religion of Sri Lanka...