SRI LANKA ARCHITECTURE NI GALABAYO

Located at the southern tip and was once a part of the Indian peninsula.

• Pakistan

• Sri Lanka

• Afghanistan

• China

Influenced by great eastern civilization of?

• China

• Western

• Egyptian

• India

• One of Sri Lanka's exported product

• Ceylon tea

• Elephant

• Sinhala

• Mariwana

• Cities, Palaces And temples were constructed on what

• On top of hills and mountain

• Caves

• Below the hills

• On top of the tree

• the island of Buddhist doctrine.

• Perahera

• Parakrama samudra

•  Dharma-Dipa

• Ashoka

• planted in Anuradhapura by Sanghamitta Thera (daughter) , considered as one of the oldest trees in the world.

• Sacred Bodhi tree

• Apple tree

• Mahabodhi

• Adam’s peak

•  in Bodhgaya, India -  place where Siddhārtha Gautama sat under a Bodhi tree for 49 days of meditation.

• Mahabodhi Temple

• Sacred mountain

• Sree Padafoot (sacred Footprint)

• Sigiraya

• vertical and unmoving, established as the stable pivot around which the universe revolves.

• Adam’s peak

• Mandapa

• Mandala

• Sacred Mountains Axis Mundi

• Mountain is also the horizontal axis, grounding the gathered creative cosmic energy radiating it out in all directions.

• Adam’s peak

• Sigiraya

• Sacred mauntain

• Axis mundi

• First capital

• Anuradhapura Period

• Polonnaruwa Period

• Kandyan Period