Best Cetiya
Kantaka Chetiya is an ancient Buddhist stupa at Mihintale, a major monastic and pilgrimage complex in Sri Lanka. Commonly dated to around the first century BCE, the monument is especially noted for the surviving stonework around its vahalkadas, or projecting entrance structures, which carry carvings...
Somawathiya Chaitya is an ancient Buddhist stupa and pilgrimage site in Sri Lanka's Polonnaruwa region, within the area now protected as Somawathiya National Park. Buddhist tradition holds that the stupa was constructed in the second century BCE and enshrines a tooth relic of the Buddha. The white-d...
Sela Cetiya is an ancient Buddhist stupa at Mihintale, a major monastic and pilgrimage complex near Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. Mihintale is traditionally associated with the meeting between the monk Mahinda and King Devanampiya Tissa, an event linked to the establishment of Buddhism on the island in...
