The annual Katina Cheewara Pooja
The annual Katina Cheewara Pooja (offering of a robe) festival of Sri Dalada Maligawa was held yesterday(Oct.22) & today(Oct.23). This festival which was held with the blessings of the chief incumbents of both Malwathu & Asgiri chapters, under the guidance of Most Ven. Thibbatuwawe Siddhartha Medhankara thero – Senior Committee Member of Malwathu chapter and […]
The Ambassador of Vietnam visited Sri Dalada Maligawa
Ambassador of Vietnam to Sri Lanka, Her Excellency Ho Thi Thanh Truc visited Sri Dalada Maligawa today (Oct.21)in the morning to obtain blessings of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Afterwards she and her team visited the international buddhist museum. A statue of prince Siddhartha carved using Vietnamese style was presented in remembrance of the long standing […]
The Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army visited Sri Dalada Maligawa today
General Manoj Mukund Naravane the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army visited Sri Dalada Maligawa today (Oct.14) evening to obtain the blessings of the Sacred Tooth Relic. He was met by Hon. Diyawadana nilame who presented him with a souvenir. The Chief of the Indian Army staff later visited the International Budhist […]
“ITN Manushathwaye Satkaraya” together with Sri Lanka Red Cross
“ITN Manushathwaye Satkaraya” (ITN Humanity Club) the charity arm of Independent Television Network Ltd together with Sri Lanka Red Cross is organizing a series of donation programs aiming Kandy district. They donated a batch of personal protective wear to Sri Dalada Maligawa today marking the start of this series of donations. The president of Sri […]
Indian Foreign Secretary visited the temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
Indian Foreign Secretary – Mr Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who is on a official tour visited the temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic today(October 03) to pay his respect and to obtain blessings. He and his delegate met the Diyawadana Nilame, Hon Pradeep Nilanga Dala at his office. The delegation took a tour of the maligawa […]
Official flags of Sri Lanka Army were blessed at the Sacred Tooth Relic
All official flags of Sri Lanka Army were blessed at the Sacred Tooth Relic to commemorate their 72nd anniversary.Ancient kings fought many battles to protect this country, nation & religion and we find proud evidence of this throughout our history. There were great warriors who fought life & death battles with invaders, assisting those kings.72 […]
The Ambassador of Indonesia visited Sri Dalada Maligawa
ඉන්දුනීසියවේ මෙරට තනාපති ගුස්ති ආධීසා මහතා අද(07) මහනුවර ශ්‍රී දළදා මාලිගාවේ සංචාරයක නිරත විය. දළදා සමිඳුන් වන්දනාකර ගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව ශ්‍රී දළදා මාලිගාව පරිශ්‍රයේ පිහිටි ලෝක බෞද්ධ කෞතුකාගාරය නැරඹීමට ද එතුමා එක් විය. The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, His Excellency Gusti Ngurah Ardiyasa visited Sri Dalada Maligawa today (07). After paying his respect to […]
Koppara Pujawa
“Koppara” (dried up split coconuts) to light up the procession was donated by Sri Lanka Army. The Army Commander General Shavendra Silva handed over a tray of “Koppara” today (09) to mark this donation. Accordingly the army will donate about 10 tons of “Koppara” to light up the entire procession.For the past few years continuously, […]
Kap Chanting ceremony was held today
Kap Chanting (Kap kepeema) ceremony was held today early morning in Sathara Koralaya marking the start of Kandy Esala Perahera Festival The Kap Chanting (“Kap Kepeema” ) ceremony was held today, the 08th day of the month of Nikini in year 2021 at 04.10 am the auspicious time in Aluthnuwara. This ceremony was organized by […]
Hon. The prime minister visited Sri Dalada Maligawa
ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද(04) පෙරවරුවේ ශ්‍රී දළදා මාලිගාවට පැමිණ උතුම් දළදා සමිඳුන් වැඳපුදා ගනු ලැබුවා. ශ්‍රී දළදා මාලිගාවේ තේවාව භාරව වැඩ සිටින අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ ශ්‍රීමත් අනුනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය ආනමඩුවේ ධම්මදස්සි නාහිමිපාණන් වහන්සේ බැහැදුටු එතුමන් අනතුරුව මල්වතු හා අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයන්හි පූජනීය මහා සංඝරත්නය බැහැදැකීමට ද එතුමන් කටයුතු කළා. Hon. Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksha visited the […]