The Esala Perahera in the hill capital was originated in 1775 A.D. under the reign of King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe and was confined to the processions of four Devalayas- Natha, Vishnu, Kataragama and ...

As the historic Senkadagala (Kandy) Dalada Perahera concluded with the Daval (day) perahera yesterday, the role played by the Asgiriya Gedige Viharaya on the last night of the Randoli Perahera comes ...

The Kandy annual Esala procession is scheduled to commence today with the first Kumbal Perahera. The first of the five Kumbal processions will begin parading from the Sri Dalada Maligawa at 7.10 p.m.

After two years the Kandy Dalada Maligawa authorties have decided to allow the public to view the annual Esala perahera. Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (Central ) Sanjeewa Dharmaratne said ...

The final Randoli Perahera of the annual Esala Perahera festival of the historic Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy paraded through the streets yesterday evening (08), witnessed by thousands of spectators, ...

A nation cannot choose its path to future development by abandoning its heritage and culture - President The ‘Sannasa’ (scroll) informing the successful completion of the annual Kandy Esala Maha ...

In its efforts of preserving and promoting Sri Lanka’s heritage and culture and as a key contributor of the major cultural and religious festivals in the country, Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s ...

According to legend, a tooth, supposedly cribbed from the Buddha’s funeral pyre, wound up in Sri Lanka in the fourth century CE when it was smuggled in by Princess Hemamala and Prince Dantha. The ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — In the days before electric street lights, the torch-bearers in Sri Lanka’s religious and cultural pageants offered no dance or theatrics. They were simply there so people ...

A “perpetual fire-laughing motion among the slow shuffle of elephants”: this is what D.H. Lawrence once said about Sri Lanka’s Esala Perahera, the nation’s biggest and one of the world’s oldest ...