A description of Kelani Vihara cannot be complete without speaking of the talented painter who turned it into a gallery of Sinhala art. Mrs. Helena Wijewardene, having decided upon the restoration wor [...]
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When the Portuguese destroyed the ancient Viharaya in 1575, all those sculptural work and the paintings of antiquity, perished with it. Hence it is a pity that there is no evidence of any ancient pain [...]
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The old paintings were done when the temple was rebuilt in the Kandyan period. They decorated the walls and ceilings of the two chambers of the old wing. In these old paintings we could clearly notice [...]
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From ancient times the tradition has been to paint the walls of temples with portrayals of the Jataka stories, but Kelani Vihara has made a welcome departure from this custom in its new paintings. Ins [...]
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