Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, has faced enormous socio-economic difficulties since the civil war ended in May 2009. But in contrast to the visible and apparent infrastructural destruction that characterises much of the District, there is a striking number of newly built Hindu temples. The majority ...
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King Datu Sena was known as “Maurya” prince who married two “Pallava” princesses from Kanchipuram. The author of Maha Vansa, Bhikku Mahanama came to Sri lanka from the same Kanchi Puram. Bodhi Dharma,from Pallava Royal house went to China and invented the KUNG-FU which is a martial ...
post-war tourismSinhalese Buddhist NationalismSri Lanka tourismtourist gazeThis study explores how Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism is constructed in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, a postwar reunified state, through postwar travels. Sri Lankan government and the military forces have recreated Buddhist temples and ...
Of Tigers and Temples: The Jaffna Caste System in Transition During the Sri Lankan Civil Wardoi:10.1007/978-3-030-97030-7_9The study of caste in northern Sri Lanka is distinctive from similar studies in India because the non-Brahmin Veāar s are the socially, economically, and politically ...