List of Endemic birds Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is the world famous bird living place which had recorded 427 species, 250 species are resident and 26 species are endemic to the island. Most of endemic birds are living in the wet zone at sinharaja forest which is published as world heritage. List of the endemic birds is given bellow. English Name Scientific Name  SinhalaName 1 Ceylon Junglefowl Gallus ...

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History of the Buddhist flag

Buddhist Flag Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country. Majority of peoples in Sri Lanka are Buddhists. Current flag of the Buddhism created in 1885 CE. Buddhism was collapsed in 18th century due to various impacts of the British missionaries.    Therefore Sinhala leaders built a society for protect Buddhism and provides leadership for battle to gain independence. This society appointed a committee for creates a flag for Buddhism;...

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National symbols of Sri Lanka

Various nations are living in world and they speak various languages and they believe various religions. Also their lifestyles, clothes, customs, foods vary from one nation to one, but all countries use national symbols to shown their national and cultural uniqueness. As well as several national symbols can be identified in Sri Lanka National flag National Song National logo National bird National Flower National Cloth National Sport National...

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Sigiriya Rock Fortress

Sigiriya in Google map View Larger Map  Sigiriya is a one of the famous and most attractive place in Sri Lanka. Sigiriya means lion’s rock. Hight of the rock is around 200 meters.  According to the history of Sri Lanka this rock used as a kingdom in Sri Lanka by king Kashyapa in 5th century.  This rock is one of the UNESCO heritages in Sri Lanka. Sigiriya consists with all features in the kingdom such as flower gardens, lakes,...

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Sri Lanka Economic between 1970 and 1977 years

Economic policies which followed in the Sri Lanka in between 1970 -1977 and after the 1977 years are totally different. Before 1977, Economic of Sri Lanka followed internal oriented economic policies, such as limitation of exports and imports, limitation of the foreign exchange currency. In these time most of the Economic policies of Sri Lanka tried to build a national economic without any interfere of other countries. Follow mentioned some characteristics of the economy in that time. Restricted for the import, in order to achieve these...

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History of the Buddhism

History of the Buddhism in Sri Lanka – part one According to the legends, Buddha three times visits to Sri Lanka. 1st time was nine months after Buddha’s enlightenment. Arrived place called Mahiyanganaya. On those times, Society of Sri Lanka is not formed one and inhabits indigenous peoples called Yaksha, Naga, and Deva. In a first visit Buddha could move them to Buddhism after the showing his psychic power. This was the first incident about...

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Sri Pada - Scared Mountain

Sri Pada is a mountain located in southern part of the hill county of Sri Lanka, 122 kilometers away from Colombo and height of 2243 meters above sea level.  Mountain comprises to two district, Ratnapura and Nuwara Eliya. There are no other mountains nearby. Area of this mountain nominated as wildlife reserves.  Environment of the mountain is cool and rainy.  Four main rivers starts in this mountain. Those are Mahaveli river...

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