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RAASL lecture this week
View(s):‘Excavation of the Uposathaghara at Sapumalgaskada Vihara, Kalebogaswewa, Vavuniya: Preliminary Findings’ is the topic of this month’s Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RAASL). It will be delivered by Chandima Bandara Ambanwela, Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management, University of Rajarata, Mihintale, on Monday, May 26 at 5.30 pm via Zoom only in Sinhala.
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81282394924?pwd=bvjTW62Emnb3NuKEW7MOHMG61Pj4PL.1
Meeting ID: 812 8239 4924
Passcode: 301771
YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/ZKjmsEh3yN8?feature=share
Website: www.royalasiaticsociety.lk/monthly-lectures/
The Sapumalgaskada Vihara is located within the Vedivettukallu Grama Niladhari Division, in the Vavuniya District of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province. This monastic complex can be chronologically placed around the 10th century CE and is identified as a Pabbata Vihara. The stupa and image house have already been excavated and conserved through the intervention of the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka. With the formal approval of the Director General of Archaeology, Sri Lanka, a recent excavation was conducted from January to March 2025. This presentation provides the first public dissemination of the preliminary results of the excavation.