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The 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack was an attack on the Temple of the Tooth Relic, located in Kandy, Sri Lanka.The shrine, which is considered to be important to the Buddhists in Sri Lanka, houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha, and is also a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site.
Born on 2 March 1883 in Dodanduwa, the son of Rev. Abraham Sooriyarachchi Amarasekera, an Anglican priest, he was educated at the Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa and at the St. Thomas' College, Mutwal, where he was the cartoonist for the hostel magazine “The Dormitory” edited by Francis Molamure. He won first prize at the Ceylon Society ...
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Gunadasa Amarasekera was born in Yattalamatta in Galle District. He was educated at Mahinda College, Galle and Nalanda College Colombo. [3] [4] [5] In the early 1950s, his short story “Soma” was selected to represent Ceylon in a world short story competition organized by the New York Herald Tribune. It was published in the collection of ...
Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne was born in 1899 in Colombo, British Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), [1] to Sinhalese Baptist parents, J. W. and Ellen Gooneratne. He had three sisters, namely H. A. and W. A. Goonetilleke and F. W. Gunaskare.
Shirani Bandaranayake was the 43rd Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and the first and one of only two women to hold the position.. This is a list of justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. [1]
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Between 1815 and 1948, Sri Lanka was a British Crown colony. Although the British monarch was the head of state, in practice his or her functions were exercised in the colony by the colonial Governor, who acted on instructions from the British government in London.