Date: 8/6/2013
Mihintale is about 8 km from Anuradhapura and it is the birth place of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Mihintale is famous as the place where in 247 BCE King Devanam Piyatissa met the Buddhist monk Mahinda, the son Emperor Asoka of India on a full moon day on the month of Poson changing the religious orientation of the country forever. Mihintale is a 300 meter peak in a range of four mountain peaks on the Anuradhapura – Trincomalee road.
Alms Hall (Dana Salawa)
Rice Trough, Mihintale
King Mahinda IV's tablet[s]
Steps up to Mihintale
Ambasthala Dagoba, Mihintale
White Budha Statue at Mihintale
Steps up to Aradhana Gala
View from the top of Aradhana Gala
Mahaseya Dagoba at Mihintale
View from the top of Aradhana Gala
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