Dodanduwa is a small coastal town situated in Galle District, Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
Dodanduwa is known for a Buddhist Island Hermitage where monks follow the strict Sri Lankan Forest Tradition (meditation and loneliness).
The town is located approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) north of Galle and 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Colombo.
Prior to the Second World War, Dodanduwa was known as the commercial centre for Salt Fish or Jaadi.[1]
^Kannangara, Ananda (14 October 2012). "Jadi, Dodanduwa's delicacy". Sunday Observer. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
Dodanduwa is a small coastal town situated in Galle District, Southern Province of Sri Lanka. Dodanduwa is known for a Buddhist Island Hermitage where...
situated next to Dodanduwa in south of Sri Lanka. The lake is 15.71 ha (38.8 acres) in area. On its boundaries are the villages of Dodanduwa, Rathgama, Katudampe...
Lanka, on an island lagoon (opposite the Railway station) Polgasduwa, Dodanduwa named Island Hermitage. This news stirred his conscience to go to Asia...
නායක ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ; 12 December 1826 – 20 May 1907), also known as Dodanduwa Piyaratne Thero, was the Mahanayaka Thero of the Amarapura Nikaya (circa...
sub-continent 1887–1888. He was a member of the Weerasooriya family of Dodanduwa and Hikkaduwa, and he is understood to be the first Sinhalese member of...
Island Hermitage on (Polgasduwa) Dodanduwa Island, Galle District, Sri Lanka is a famous Buddhist forest monastery founded by Ven Nyanatiloka Mahathera...
theatre near the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa Island, Galle District; a monastery Hermitage, Berkshire, a village near...
(2004). "The first Buddhist School in Sri Lanka – Piyarathana Vidyalaya of Dodanduwa dilapidated, threatened with closure". Daily News (Sri Lanka). Retrieved...
south to Colombo. It is located between the tourist town of Hikkaduwa and Dodanduwa. Thiranagama is the upmarket area of the 24 km (15 mi) coastline of Hikkaduwa...
Viharaya temple in 1922. In early 1922 young Sumedankara Thera set sail from Dodanduwa, Southern Province and arrived at Muttur, Trincomalee by a maha-oruwa...
the Totagamuva Rajamahévihara in Telvatta, and the Sailabimbaramaya in Dodanduwa were attributed to artists influenced by Devaragampola Silvaththana's...
to France from 1974 to 1977. Sarachchandra was born on 3 June 1914 in Dodanduwa, Rathgama, Galle, Sri Lanka. He completed his early education at Richmond...
Sinhalese women trades and teacher training for Dodanduwa boys and girls establishment of a CMS mission in Dodanduwa in Ceylon/Sri Lanka furniture and stained...
from the nearby temples. He was ordained while in his twenties in the Dodanduwa Gala Uda Vihara by Venerable Thelikada Sonutthara Thera, the chief incumbent...
the grand nephew of Arnolis Weerasooriya of the Weerasooriya family of Dodanduwa, Hikkaduwa. C.S. Weerasooriya was enlisted into the Ceylon Army on 09...
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