Evidence

The Four Hela Clans — Yakka, Nāga, Deva & Raksha: The Real People Behind the “Demons” of Lanka

The Four Hela Clans — Yakka, Nāga, Deva & Raksha: The Real People Behind the “Demons” of Lanka

A BuddhaOfLanka Research Edition For thousands of years, Sri Lanka’s oldest peoples — Yakka, Nāga, Deva & Raksha — have […]

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The Lost Lake of the Pāli Canon — Searching for Anotatta / Anavatapta

The Lost Lake of the Pāli Canon — Searching for Anotatta / Anavatapta Through Text, Geography, and Sri Lanka’s Highlands

For more than two thousand years, Buddhist literature has spoken about a mysterious sacred lake named Anotatta (also called Anavatapta).It

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Why the Cannonball Tree of Lanka matches the Buddha’s birth story

Reclaiming the Real Sāla Tree: A BuddhaOfLanka Re-Examination of History, Botany & Colonial Errors

Why the Cannonball Tree of Lanka matches the Buddha’s birth story — and why the Indian “Sal” does not. For

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The Lost Rivers of Hela Diva: How Colonial Renaming Hid the Buddha’s Real Homeland

A BuddhaOfLanka Research Article For thousands of years, the chronicles of Hela Diva — the Mahāvaṁsa, Dīpavaṁsa, Samantapāsādikā, and ancient

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In the Footsteps of the Buddha — As Told by the Chinese Monk Faxian

Sacred Trail Through Ancient Lanka: From Bambaragala to Budugala In the 5th century CE, the Chinese monk Faxian journeyed across

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