The Safeguarding of the Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka: Steady Progress and Future Prospects |
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... Audience Hall , Kandy , on the final day of the 1,600 - year - old traditional Perahera or procession of the Sacred Tooth Relic . The pomp and pageantry of this occasion were indeed unique . The inaugurations have set the machinery of ...
... Audience Hall , Kandy , on the final day of the 1,600 - year - old traditional Perahera or procession of the Sacred Tooth Relic . The pomp and pageantry of this occasion were indeed unique . The inaugurations have set the machinery of ...
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... viewers to recall narratives already familiar to them . The subject matter pictorially displayed in this enormous ... Audience Hall - a timber structure with ornately carved pillars - which has been rightly called ' a gem of Kandyan ...
... viewers to recall narratives already familiar to them . The subject matter pictorially displayed in this enormous ... Audience Hall - a timber structure with ornately carved pillars - which has been rightly called ' a gem of Kandyan ...
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... Audience Hall is nearly complete and the main entrance together with the boundary wall of the Palace has been cleared . The old moat to the north of the Palace Square and the city wall on the same side have been unearthed . The finest ...
... Audience Hall is nearly complete and the main entrance together with the boundary wall of the Palace has been cleared . The old moat to the north of the Palace Square and the city wall on the same side have been unearthed . The finest ...
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18th Century A.D. ABHAYAGIRI MONASTERY Abhayagiriya aesthetic Alahana Parivena Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow ancient city Anuradhapura appeal architectural conservation Asia Audience Hall Borobudur brickwork Buddha statues Buddhist caves chapter house co-operation Colombo conservation programme Cultural Affairs cultural complex cultural heritage Cultural Triangle Dambulla Director-General of Unesco disciplines effort envisaged excavation and conservation excavation programme fifth century forest monasteries fourth century B.C. galleries garden architecture Government of Sri heritage of mankind Hindu historic institutions international campaign international community J. R. Jayewardene Jetavana Kandy laboratory layout programme major monasteries materials ments metres million monks monu monuments and sites museum original outstanding monuments paintings pilgrims plan of action pleasure garden Polonnaruva progress religious restored Royal Palace Sacred Tooth Relic safeguarding shrines Sigiriya Sinhala Sinhalese six archaeological sites specialists spiritual Sri Lanka stone structure stupa technical Temple Square tradition trees Triangle of Sri UNDP unearthed Vihara visitors walls World Heritage List