29 September, 2019
The Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), monthly public lecture will be delivered by Chartered Architect and Chartered Landscape Architect Shereen Amendra on ‘The Marvelous Mahatupa’ at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7 on September 30 at 5.00 p.m.
The Mahatūpa is a presentation which explores the seemingly modern knowledge of the ancient people of South Asia as recorded in such texts as the Mahāvamsa chronicle and Vāstuvidyāśāstra of Mañjuśrī, an architectural manual, among others.
The Mahatūpa of Anuradhapura is now known as the Ruvanveliseya or Swarnamali chaitya, a part of national heritage.