History of the Kelaniya Royal Temple
The sanctuary of interminable magnificence is of long history. The intriguing history of Kelaniya returns to pre-Christian occasions. The city was associated with the epic of Ramayana in that Kelaniya's Prince Vibhisana was become friends with by Lord Rama of India in his fight against King Ravana of Lanka. A more youthful sibling of Ravana, Vibhisana, similar to his sibling, appeased Brahma, and got a help consequently of a pledge. The pledge was that he could never submit a contemptible activity even in the best furthest point. At that point when the compensation time crashlanded, the testing experience took off, he needed to make his remain against his very own property and his very own sibling.
The narratives, Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa, record in detail the account of the Buddha's visit to Kelaniya on the eighth year after his Enlightenment, on a Wesak day, on the welcome of the Naga King Maniakkhika. Following the elucidating of the Dhamma (Buddhism) by Buddha, Kelaniya Royal Temple was work by the lord. The jeweled honored position, on which the Buddha sat while lecturing, Buddha's hair, the utensils utilized in the past are said to have been cherished in the stupa at the Kelaniya sanctuary. Kelaniya Vihara notwithstanding, gotten its sacrosanct status and turned into a position of Buddhist love after Arhath (especially edified) Mahinda conveyed the Dhamma to the island.
Kelaniya has stayed essential in every single chronicled period, particularly in the fifteenth century under the rule of Parakramabahu the fourth (1351A.D.) and his successors. In the years 1424 and 1475, Kelaniya was visited by Buddhist priests of Cambodia, Thailand and Burma. After that it remained a critical religious focus during that time and experienced progressive improvements. The sanctuary was annihilated by raiding Dravidian trespassers from South India. In any case, at that point, reestablished by the Sinhalese lords.
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