Lankathilaka Viharaya Temple description and photos - Sri Lanka: Polonnaruwa (Topic)

Lankathilaka Viharaya temple description and photos - Sri Lanka: Polonnaruwa. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Lankathilaka Viharaya.

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Frescoes, paintings, sculptures and architecture - Lankasilaka Viharaya is definitely worth seeing. Built by Parakramabahu the Great, who ascended the throne in 1153. and remained in power until 1186, Lankasilaka Viharaya absorbed the best features of the Sri Lankan architectural style, better known as Sinhala temple architecture. The temple also underwent some renovations during the reign of Dabadiya in the 13th century.

This temple has many features and advantages over other tourist attractions in Kandy. To begin with, this is an unusual architectural variation based on the style common to all Buddhist temples. You can see how abstraction through frescoes and sculptures turns into something clear and crisp. A giant statue, or rather its remains, is a prime example of this.

In front of the main entrance to the temple, there is a preaching hall covered with flat tiles, unlike ordinary semicircular tiles, they are used to cover the central part of the roof and create beautiful patterns. Two large images of lions and two figures of guards facing each other adorn the two walls of a short corridor leading to the spirit house. Inside the house of spirits, there is a magnificent relic - a twelve-foot image of Buddha under the beautiful Makara Toranaa.

It's amazing that the entire temple was built from one mountain range. In fact, if you look closely, you can see the cutouts in the rock used to create the Buddha statue. A striking feature of Lankasilaka Viharaya is that the temple is connected to the house of spirits (a five-story building from the front).

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