Sri Maha Bodhi Tree (The Sacred Bo Tree)

·       Sri Maha Bodhi Tree is the most sacred tree in the world and it is the oldest tree in the world which has a written history.

·       Arahat Sangamitta Therini brought Sri Maha Bodhi

 Tree to Sri Lanka and planted in Mahamewna Park

with a lot of devotion in the time of King

 Dewaampiyatissa.

Lankaramaya

·       Lankaramaya had built by King Walagamba.

·       The stupa was named as Somaramaya too, in the name

of King Walagamba’s wife, Soma Devi.

·       As she was a brave queen who sacrificed her life for the

sake of our mother land, she was called as Lanka Devi too, so as the stupa got its name Lankaramaya.

·       This stupa too as Thuparamaya, is built on a stone stage and this too

 had a circular house, one of ancient circular houses in Sri Lanka.

·       The circular house of Lankaramaya had built by King Kanittathissa.

·       This stupa has the shape amalakara (the shape of a nelli fruit ),

 one of very rear shapes that can be seen in the stupa’s of

Sri Lanka.

The Samadhi Buddha Statue

·       This is a world famous Buddha statue which is in the Bodhigara of Abhayagiri monastery complex.

Ruwanweliseya

·       Ruwanweliseya is one of the largest sthupas which had built by King Dutugemunu, The Great.

·       It was named as Maha Thupa too.

·       It is believed that their lived a goddess named Swarnamali on a Thelambu tree in the land where the thupa was to build. And she refused to leave the tree for the purpose of building the stupa. But at last she left the tree as the king promised her to name the sthupa in her name. So the sthupa was named Swarnamali which is used as Ruwanweliseya at present. 

·       This is the stupa which the largest number of The Buddha’s relics enshrined in. It is believed that about a handful of ( dronayak ) relics are enshrined in this sacred stupa.