Rajagala, or Raassagala as it was once known, is a place shrouded in mystery. Though officially discovered in the 1890s, the major part remains unexcavated – this despite the countless stupas already ...

‘One day we should go to Rajagala,’ I told Tharindu Amunugama, insatiable explorer and wonderful travel companion. ‘Of course,’ he said. We’ve planned but it never happened. It is on our unwritten ...

Rajagala’s verifiable history dates back to the pre-Christian era, when Lajjatissa, son of King Saddhatissa, began building a monastery for Buddhist monks on the mountain. The Mahavamsa records that ...

Archaeologists from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, who are in charge of the Rajagala Archaeological Reserve in Ampara have confirmed that it was there that the ashes of Arahat Mahinda were ...

Rajagala, which literally translates to the ‘monarch's rock’, is an archaeological site located in Sri Lanka’s Ampara district, which covers over 3,000 acres.

A stupa restored under a project funded by the U.S. Department of State through the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) was inaugurated ...

While there’s an inscription among Rajagala ruins stating that the ashes of Arahat Mahinda and Venerable Ittiya who accompanied him to Sri Lanka, were enshrined in a stupa there, ...